Lawrence Eagleburger

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Lawrence Eagleburger while serving as Secretary of State (1992) Lawrence Eagleburger Signature.svg

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (born August 1, 1930 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † June 4, 2011 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) was an American politician and diplomat . He worked under Presidents Richard Nixon , Jimmy Carter , Ronald Reagan, and George HW Bush . He served the latter briefly as Secretary of State .

Life

Lawrence Sidney ("Larry") Eagleburger was born to a doctor and elementary school teacher. The family spent the war years in Mississippi and Seattle, and in 1946 they finally settled in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Eagleburger earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison . In 1957 he joined the American Foreign Service, where he held various posts in embassies , consulates and in the State Department . Between 1961 and 1965 he worked for the US embassy in Belgrade ( Yugoslavia ).

In 1969 he served in the government of President Richard Nixon as assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger . He remained in this post until 1971, after which he took on various positions including that of adviser to the US legation to NATO in Brussels . When Kissinger was appointed Secretary of State, Eagleburger followed him to a number of other posts in the State Department . Eagleburger was considered a confidante and protégé of Henry Kissinger. After Nixon's resignation, he left the government but was quickly appointed United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia by President Jimmy Carter , a position he held between 1977 and 1980. From May 1981 to January 1982 he was Under Secretary of State for European Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs ) ; he was succeeded by Richard Burt .

1982 President Ronald Reagan appointed him Secretary of State for Political Affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ) ; this third highest position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he held until May 1984. In 1989, President George HW Bush appointed him Vice Secretary of State (the second highest position in the State Department). He served this President as the first advisor on matters relating to the process of the breakup of the State of Yugoslavia.

Eagleburger (chair, center) during a meeting on the 1991 Persian Gulf War

When the then Secretary of State James A. Baker resigned in August 1992 to organize Bush's election campaign, Eagleburger took over his official duties (Acting Secretary of State) in accordance with the law. After Bush lost the presidential election in November 1992, he appointed Eagleburger as Secretary of State for the United States. He left office on January 19, 1993. Eagleburger was US Secretary of State with the second shortest term. Only Elihu Benjamin Washburne served in the State Department shorter in March 1869 with only eleven days .

After the term of office

In 1998 he was appointed President of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims ( ICHEIC ). After nine years of activity, this task was solved and completed to everyone's satisfaction in March 2007. 300 million dollars (the equivalent of around 226 million euros) had been paid out to almost 50,000 recipients.

In spring 2010, when the Falklands question was raised again, Eagleburger criticized the neutralist position of US President Barack Obama for not being unconditionally pro-British.

Eagleburger was honored in 1989 with the Presidential Citizens Medal , the second highest civil honor in the USA.

Personal life

Eagleburger was married to Marlene Ann Heinemann from the Heinemann bakeries family from Milwaukee for the second time from 1966 until her death in 2010 . The couple have two sons and Eagleburger a son from their first marriage, all of whom were named after their father Lawrence Eagleburger and can only be distinguished by their middle name: Lawrence Scott , Lawrence Andrew and Lawrence Jason Eagleburger. When asked by the Washington Post about this identity, he replied, “It was ego. And secondly, I wanted to screw up the Social Security system. "(Translation:" It was my ego. And secondly, I wanted to annoy the pension system. ")

literature

  • Theodor Hindson: Lawrence Eagleburger. In: Edward S. Mihalkanin (Ed.): American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell . Greenwood Publishing 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-30828-4 , pp. 179-181.

Web links

Commons : Lawrence Eagleburger  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ Barry Schweid: Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies ( January 1, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ) , Chicago Sun-Times , June 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Lawrence S. Eagleburger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/2011 of September 6, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ a b Bernard Gwertzman: Lawrence Eagleburger, a top diplomat, this at 80 , New York Times , June 4, 2011
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/us/politics/05eagleburger.html?_r=1
  5. ^ Compensation completed , afp / taz of March 22, 2007, p. 8
  6. ↑ Giles Whittell: White House team is betraying Britain by staying neutral over Falklands , The Times , 2 April of 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Eagleburger, Lawrence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eagleburger, Lawrence Sidney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2011
Place of death Charlottesville , Virginia