Michael St Edmund Burton

Sir Michael St Edmund Burton , KCVO , CMG (born October 18, 1937 ) is a retired British diplomat . From 1985 to 1990 he was the last head of the British military government in Berlin and from 1994 to 1997 British ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Life

Burton studied at Woodcote House in Surrey and at Bedford School. From 1955 to 1957, Burton was Second Lieutenant with the 95th Rifles . In 1960 he joined the foreign service, studying at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and at the Middle East Center for Arab Studies (MECAS) in Shemlan on Mount Lebanon . From 1962 to 1964 he was a commissioner in Dubai and the Trucial States where he worked as a lay judge. In 1964 he was employed in the East Department in the Foreign Office . From 1964 to 1967 he was personal advisor to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs George Thomson and Walter Padley.

From 1967 to 1969 he was promoted from Second Class Embassy Secretary to First Class Embassy Secretary in Khartoum , Sudan . At the beginning of his stay, Sadiq al-Mahdi later ruled there, Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub, and finally, Jafar an-Numairi supported a military coup. The Sudanese military government accused the Royal Air Force of having participated in the Six Day War , which led Ambassador Sir Robert William Doughty Fowler to leave Sudan in the meantime and the embassy subsequently operated as the British Interests Section in the Italian embassy.

Burton had two interviews with the British Foreign Secretary and was allowed to marry a woman who was born in Czechoslovakia after his trust level was downgraded . So he could not say whether the archivist of the British embassy in Karthum, when he also supplied the archives of the Soviet embassy there, was worth his money. From 1972 to 1975 he was employed in the Science Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office . From 1975 to 1977 he headed the consular section in Amman , Jordan, as first class embassy secretary .

From 1977 to 1979 Burton was Counselor to Kuwait, from 1979 to 1981 he headed the Maritime, Aviation and Environment Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He then headed the South Asia department from 1981 to 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he was seconded to BP as Head of Business Policy Revision.

From November 1985 to October 1990 he was Deputy Commander of the British Sector of Berlin and Head of the British Military Government. The fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification fell during his term of office .

Finally, from 1990 to 1992 he headed the office of the British Embassy in Berlin.

On June 13, 1987, he was accepted as a Companion in the Order of St. Michael and St. George . In 1992 he also became Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order . In 1993 he was Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1994 to 1997 he was ambassador to Prague .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Ministers of the Military Government. In: website of the Kameradschaft 248 GSU e. V. Accessed on March 15, 2018 (German). 
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 50948, HMSO, London, June 13, 1987, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
3. ↑ London Gazette , November 3, 1992, PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/BDOHP/Burton.pdf

predecessor	Office	successor
Anthony David Brighty	British Ambassador to the Czech Republic 1994–1997	David Stuart Broucher