Donald Edwin Nuechterlein (June 20, 1925 – July 7, 2022) was an American diplomat and academic, professor of international relations,

Federal Executive Institute The Federal Executive Institute (FEI) is an executive and management development and training center for governmental leaders located on a campus near the center of Charlottesville, Virginia, less than a mile from University of Virginia. FEI of ...

, Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1968 to 1988.

Early life

Nuechterlein was born in

Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw () is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of Greater ...

, on June 20, 1925, the son of Edwin William and Laura Anna Nuechterlein. He earned bachelor's master's and PhD degrees from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Career

He was professor of international relations at the

, Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1968 to 1988. He held the following titles with the United States government: * U.S. Government, assistant reports officer in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, Germany, 1946–47 *

U.S. Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...

, Washington, DC, research analyst, 1952–54 * U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1954–56 * Desk Officer in Washington, D.C., 1957–60 * Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, 1960–63 *

U.S. Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national secur ...

, Washington, DC, senior staff officer, 1964–68 He was professor of international relations at the

, Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1968 to 1988. In 1948, he married Mildred Virginia Usak, and they had four children, Jan, Jill, Jeffrey, Jonathan. He was a fellow of the

Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...

Personal life and death

In 1995, his son, lawyer Jeffrey Donald Nuechterlein, married Abigail Riggs Spangler, daughter of billionaire businessman

Clemmie Spangler Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. (April 5, 1932 – July 22, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman, and the owner of National Gypsum. On the ''Forbes'' 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billio ...

. He died in

Charlottesville, Virginia Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ...

on July 7, 2022, at the age of 97.

References

External links

donaldnuechterlein.com
1925 births 2022 deaths People from Saginaw, Michigan University of Michigan alumni Academics from Michigan American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers Rockefeller Fellows United States Navy personnel of World War II Cultural attachés American expatriates in Germany American expatriates in Iceland American expatriates in Thailand {{US-diplomat-stub