Werner Kaufmann-Bühler

Werner Kaufmann-Bühler (* 1936 in Heidelberg ) is a former German ambassador .

Life

From 1954 to 1958 Kaufmann-Bühler studied law and economics at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn , which he completed in 1958 and 1962 with the first and second state examinations. Subsequently, he was a research assistant at the chair for competition law with Professor Wolfgang Hefermehl .

1963 Kaufmann-Buhler was in Heidelberg for Doctor of Law doctorate . From 1962 to 1966 he was employed in the administrative service of the state of Baden-Württemberg . In 1966 he joined the Foreign Service . From 1966 to 1968 and 1973 to 1977 he was employed in the Department of International Law at the Foreign Office in Bonn.

From 1981 to 1985 and 1990 to 1993 Kaufmann-Bühler worked in the department for European unification. Between 1985 and 1990 he headed the economic services of the embassy in Tokyo. From 1993 to 1996 he was head of the European unification sub-department.

From 1968 to 1970 Kaufmann-Bühler was accredited at the consulate in Liège and from 1970 to 1973 in Santiago de Chile . From 1977 to 1981 he was employed in the Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris and from 1996 to 2001 he headed it as Ambassador and Permanent Representative .

From 1974 to 1977 Kaufmann-Bühler was a member of the German delegation to the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in New York City . He was also a member of the German delegation at the CSCE Review Conferences in La Valletta in 1979 and in Madrid in 1981 , and from 1990 to 1992 at the EC Intergovernmental Conference for the Maastricht Treaty . In 1996 he was a member of the reflection group preparing the Amsterdam Treaty .

He signed the OECD Convention against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials for the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Kaufmann-Bühler is married and has two daughters.

Web links

• Werner Kaufmann-Bühler on the website of the German-Belgian-Luxembourg Society  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaufmann-Bühler, Werner: Logical and conceptual problems in the detailed regulation of the basic right of conscientious objection according to Art. 4 Par. 3 Sentence 2 GG. Ed .: University thesis: Heidelberg, Jur. F., Diss. V. December 23, 1963.

predecessor	Office	successor
Mario Count Matuschka	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris 1996–2001	Hans-Stefan Kruse