Peter Hartmann (State Secretary)

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Peter Hartmann (born October 9, 1935 in Aachen ) is a former German diplomat . From 1995 to 1998 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office .

Life

After graduating from high school in Aachen , he studied philosophy , history and political science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the University of Cologne and the University of Freiburg in Switzerland between 1955 and 1964 . He also graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1958 with a degree in philosophy . In 1965 his promotion to the doctorate in philosophy at the University of Freiburg.

He then entered the diplomatic service in 1965 and was in the preparatory service until 1968, the last time he worked at the embassy in the USA . He then worked at the Consulate General in Karachi and then in 1971 at the Permanent Mission to the European Communities in Brussels . After an assignment in the Foreign Office in Bonn from 1974 to 1981, he became an employee of the embassy in Argentina .

Later he was Deputy Head of Department 2 in the Federal Chancellery and thus representative of Horst Teltschik . In this function, he took part in a conference on German reunification in London in 1989, alongside Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Foreign Minister of the GDR Markus Meckel . In 1993, he succeeded Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen as ambassador to the United Kingdom .

Hartmann, who is a member of the CDU , was then State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1995 to 1998 . During his term of office the necessity of extensive austerity measures fell, which also led to the closure of the embassies in Somalia , Chad and Liberia as well as the consulates general in Antwerp and Gothenburg in 1997 .

After the end of the term of office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1998, he was appointed ambassador to France as the successor to Immo Stabreit and held this post until his retirement in 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “10. November 1989: Telephone call Kohl Thatcher ” , 2 + 4 Chronicle . Access date: December 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ “'It is clear that Britain, France and the Soviet Union are against reunification'” , Die Welt , October 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Foreign Office: The Savings Message" , Focus , No. 51/1996.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen