Wolfgang Göttelmann

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Wolfgang Göttelmann (born October 24, 1935 in Büdingen ) is a German diplomat.

Life

Göttelmann's parents were the fallen district judge Edmund Göttelmann and his wife Grete nee. Rettig .

Göttelmann attended the German School in Istanbul . After graduating from high school (1956), he studied law and economics at St. Catherine's College at the University of Oxford and at Eberhard Karls University . On January 28, 1957 he was active in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . On February 24, 1958 inactivated , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . In Munich he passed both state law exams. At the University of Saarland , he was in 1967 for Dr. iur. PhD. After working for the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels, at the Hague Academy for International Law and in an international law firm in Munich, he joined the German Foreign Service in 1966.

First he worked in the Political Department of the Foreign Office in Bonn and at the German Consulate General in Basel. From 1970 to 1973 he was political advisor at the embassy in Berne and from 1973 to 1975 economic advisor at the embassy in Cairo . After a further assignment in the legal department of the Foreign Office, he was transferred in 1982 by Federal Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. From 1985 to 1987 he was head of the department for German personnel in international organizations at the Foreign Office. Appointed ambassador by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , he headed the German embassy in Beirut from 1987 to 1990 during the civil war . This was followed by two years as an inspector of the foreign service in the countries of Africa, Asia and America. Before and after the handover to China, he headed the German Consulate General in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 . After that he was German ambassador in Manila until November 2000 with simultaneous accreditation in the Pacific states of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands and Palau .

From his 1986 divorced marriage with Barbara Göttelmann geb. Stankiewicz had three children and nine grandchildren.

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists in 1960, 128/1058
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The delegation of sovereign powers of international organizations and their bodies - a comparison with German law .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Hermann Göttelmann , in: Rainer Assmann, Ernst Napp and Ingo Nordmeyer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen (corps list and corps history), 5th edition 2002, p. 261
personal data
SURNAME Göttelmann, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göttelmann, Wolfgang Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdingen