Karl Theodor Paschke is a former Under Secretary General for the

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. He was born in

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in 1935. He studied

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Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

and

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before working for the Foreign Office. From 1994 to 1999, he served as head of the

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. Among other things, he also teaches seminars on the U.N. at the

Willy Brandt School of Public Policy The Willy Brandt School of Public Policy is a public institute for research and education in the field of public policy at the University of Erfurt. It was established in 2002, offering the first German study program leading to a ''Master of Pub ...

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Paschke calls for increased U.S.-German cooperation 4 April 2006
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