Wolfgang Bente

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Wolfgang Bente (born December 14, 1927 ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Tunisia from 1985 to 1990 and to Saudi Arabia from 1990 to 1992 .

Life

After graduating from high school , Bente studied and then joined the foreign service . After completing the career examination and assignments at the headquarters of the Foreign Office and at foreign missions , he became head of the German staff at the French embassy in Lebanon as first class counselor , since France, as the protecting power, represented Germany's interests in Beirut at that time . On October 10, 1968, he became a consultant in the department for the Middle East and North Africa, and on April 6, 1970, he was promoted to the lecturing councilor and deputy head of this department .

After a brief secondment from October 12 to November 22, 1970 as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Jordan , he was again Deputy Head of the Department for the Middle East and North Africa. Afterwards he was permanent representative of the head of a consulate general and counselor at an embassy.

In 1985 he was appointed ambassador to Tunisia and held this office until 1990. He was then appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia , where he worked until he retired at the end of 1992. In this capacity he was convened in September 1990 to the office of the then Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz . He expressed his disappointment at the refusal of the Germans to participate with their own troops in the multinational operation against Iraq in the Second Gulf War .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1968. Volume 2, Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, p. 1662, ISBN 3-486-56411-0 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius, Ilse Dorothee Pautsch: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1970. Volume 3, Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, p. 2365, ISBN 3-486-56498-6 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Lecture from Riyadh. In: Der Spiegel . No. 38/1990
personal data
SURNAME Bente, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1927