Uwe Kaestner
Uwe Kurt Kaestner (born February 8, 1939 in Dresden ) is a former German ambassador .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1958, Kaestner began studying law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which he graduated in 1962.
Kaestner joined the foreign service in 1963 . In addition to his training for the higher service, he also received his doctorate at the university as a Dr. jur. with a dissertation entitled The Admissibility of Economic Integration under the Constitution of the United States of America . After completing his career examination, he was employed at the embassy in Brazil between 1966 and 1970 and then at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn , before becoming the ambassador's permanent representative in Ecuador between 1974 and 1977 .
Kaestner was then a consultant in the planning staff of the Foreign Office between 1977 and 1980 and then a consultant in the Political Department of the Embassy in the Soviet Union and between 1984 and 1986 Head of Division in the Political Department of the Foreign Office. This was followed by a secondment to the Federal Chancellery from 1986 to 1993 , where he became head of Division 212 (East-West Issues) in 1989, which belonged to Division 2 under the direction of Horst Teltschik . Division 211 (European Integration) was headed by Legation Councilor Joachim Bitterlich . On February 10, 1990, Teltschik, Bitterlich and Kaestner accompanied Helmut Kohl's visit to Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow in Moscow , which is considered a milestone in German reunification .
From 1993 to 1995 Uwe Kaestner was the Federal Foreign Office's representative for Latin American policy with the rank of ambassador. From 1995 to 1998 he was ambassador to South Africa. Then Kaestner exchanged his post as ambassador in Pretoria with the head of Department 3 (Third World Policy) Harald Ganns . From 1999 to 2001 Kaestner was ambassador to Tokyo and then from 2001 to 2004 the German ambassador to Brazil.
Publications
- The admissibility of economic integration according to the constitution of the United States of America , dissertation, University of Bonn, 1966
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae (PDF; 9 kB) by Uwe Kaestner on the website of the German-Brazilian Society
- Curriculum vitae ( memento from July 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Bonner Uniclub-Kurier 3/2007
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaestner, Uwe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaestner, Uwe Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |