Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (diplomat)
Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (born August 16, 1929 in German Filehne , Netzekreis , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia ) is a former German diplomat.
Life
Graf Schulenburg's parents were Werner Heinrich Graf von der Schulenburg (1890–1944), a Prussian State Council member, and Silvia geb. Countess von Wedel. He married Dorothea Marianne von Miller, Rudolf von Miller's daughter ; the marriage had three children.
Werner von der Schulenburg began to study law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1951 he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Bonn . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1959 he passed the second state examination in law. After completing his legal preparatory service, he entered the diplomatic service. He was an attaché in Algiers , press officer in Helsinki (1962–1965), consular officer in Caracas (1965–1968) and press officer at the embassy in Madrid (1968–1971). After working in Buenos Aires , he held various positions in the Foreign Office in Bonn. From 1984 to 1988 he was chief of protocol in the German Foreign Office . From 1988 to 1991 he was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Greece . From 1991 to 1994 he was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Switzerland and Liechtenstein . He retired in 1994 and has lived on the Philippsburg (Leer) in East Frisia ever since .
Honors
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Cross of Merit 1st Class (1985)
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Individual evidence
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein |
Head of Protocol in the German Foreign Office 1984–1988 |
Johannes Dohmes |
Rüdiger von Pachelbel |
Ambassador to Greece 1988–1991 |
Leopold Bill von Bredow |
Wolfram Dufner |
Ambassador to Switzerland 1991–1994 |
Eberhard Heyken |
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Ambassador to Liechtenstein 1991–1994 |
Eberhard Heyken |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schulenburg, Werner Graf von der |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schulenburg, Werner Ludwig Botho Hubertus Graf von der (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wieleń , Netzekreis, Poznan-West Prussia border mark |