Michael Schaefer (diplomat)

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Michael Schaefer (* 1949 ) is a retired German diplomat . He has been Chairman of the Board of Management of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt since July 1, 2013 .

Michael Schaefer (2012)

Life

Schaefer first attended the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover before he graduated from the Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium in Graefelfing near Munich . Between 1969 and 1974 he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Geneva . In 1974 he completed his studies with the first state examination in law in Munich. He then worked as a research assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva until 1975, and from 1976 to spring 1977 as an intern in the Department of Political Affairs of the UN Secretariat and at the United Nations Security Council in New York City . In 1975/76 and 1977/1978 he completed his legal preparatory service in Heidelberg , which he completed in 1978 with the second state examination in law.

In 1978 he entered the diplomatic service . After completing his training as an attaché from 1980 to 1981, he worked in the Office of State Secretaries at the Federal Foreign Office. During this time he also received his doctorate as Dr. iur. at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim .

From 1981 to 1984 he was political advisor at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, from 1984 to 1987 advisor in the United Nations policy department at the Foreign Office in Bonn .

From 1987 to 1991 he was permanent representative of the Ambassador in Singapore , and between 1991 and 1995 he was head of training for the higher service at what is now the Foreign Service Academy . During his activity as head of the political department at the Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva from 1995 to 1999, he was also a member of the German delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission based there .

From 1999 he headed the Western Balkans Special Staff at the Federal Foreign Office. In 2001 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Political Department of the Foreign Office in Berlin . As Deputy Political Director, he was also the representative for stability policy in Southeast Europe . Afterwards he was head of the legal department of the Foreign Office for a short time between September and October 2002, before he became head of the political department and thus political director of the foreign ministry in November 2002.

After almost five years as Political Director, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People's Republic of China from August 2007 to June 2013 . He resigned from the Federal Republic of Germany's Foreign Service at the end of June 2013.

Since July 2013, Dr. Schaefer Chairman of the Board of Management of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt (reorganized into the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt in 2016 ).

Fonts

Schaefer has written numerous articles and monographs , mainly on questions of foreign policy and the United Nations. His major publications include:

  • The United Nations Security Mechanism. Springer Verlag , Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 1980
  • Commentary on Art. 21. In: Bruno Simma u. a. (Ed.): Charter of the United Nations . Verlag CH Beck Munich 1993 (German version)
  • Job description diplomat, selection and training in the foreign service. Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 1995
  • Human rights field missions - an innovative approach. In: United Nations Journal, 4/97
  • Protection of human rights by the United Nations. Co-editor Baum / Riedel / Schaefer, NOMOS Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998
  • How do you create stability in the Balkans? In: Enrico Brandt and Christian Buck (eds.): Foreign Office. Verlag Leske and Budrich , Opladen 2002

Memberships

Michael Schaefer is a member of the Trilateral Commission in Europe.

Web links

Commons : Michael Schaefer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Committees. (No longer available online.) BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, archived from the original on July 8, 2013 ; Retrieved July 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmw-stiftung.de
  2. ^ Trilateral Commission Membership List
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1949