Güenther Wilhelm van Well (15 October 1922 – 14 August 1993) was a German

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, Secretary of State from 1977 to 1981, and West German Ambassador to the United States from 1984 to 1987.

Career

In the early seventies, as Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary in the Foreign Office, he was in the development of rapprochement with the

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, as well as the four-power agreement. As Acting Secretary of State, he was appointed by then-foreign minister

Hans-Dietrich Genscher Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affa ...

, as his personal representative for disaster prevention. Following his work as secretary of state, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the

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. After that, he served as German ambassador in Washington, DC. As a retired ambassador, he engaged as a participant in the "Bergedorf Round Table" of the Körber Foundation, among many other celebrities for an understanding of international problems and issues, as well as Executive Vice President of the

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, Bonn.

Publications

*"Die Entwicklung der gemeinsamen Nahostpolitik der Neun", in: ''Europa Archiv'', 4/1976; *"Teilnahme Berlins am internationalen Geschehen – ein dringender Punkt auf der Ost-West- Tagesordnung", in: ''Europa Archiv'', 20/1976; *"Belgrad 1977. Das KSZE-Folgetreffen und seine Bedeutung für den Entspannungsprozeß", in: ''Europa Archiv'', 18/1977; *"Politische Aspekte des Strukturwandels der Weltwirtschaft", in: ''Europa Archiv'', 3/1979; *"Wandel in Europa und die beiden deutschen Staaten", in: ''Europa-Archiv''; 19/1989, S. 569–576; *''Auf der Suche nach der Gestalt Europas''. Festschrift für Wolfgang Wagner zum 65. Geburtstag am 23. August 1990 (Mitherausgeber Jochen Thies); *"Deutschland und die UN", in: Rüdiger Wolfrum (Hrsg.), ''Handbuch Vereinte Nationen'', München 1991², S. 71 – 77; *"Der Auswärtige Dienst in einer Zeit des Wandels", in: ''Europa Archiv'', 10/1992, S. 269–278 und 14/1992, S. 391–396; *"Die Vereinten Nationen als Friedensstifter: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Weltorganisation", in: ''Die Vereinten Nationen und Österreich'', 1/1993, 7 – 11.

References

External links

* "Günther van Well", ''German wikipedia'' *http://www.v-like-vintage.net/en/photo_details/35307_photo_Bonn+Guenther+van+Well+Walter/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Well, Gunther Van 1922 births 1993 deaths Ambassadors of Germany to the United States Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Fallschirmjäger of World War II