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Andreas Meyer-Landrut

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Person.png Andreas Meyer-Landrut  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(diplomat, deep state functionary?)
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Born31 May 1929
Tallinn, Estonia
NationalityGerman
EthnicityBaltic German
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
German diplomat and Russia specialist who was panelist for the discussion about The New Soviet (Dis)union at the 1990 Bilderberg.

Andreas Meyer-Landrut was a German diplomat and Russia specialist who was panelist for the discussion about The New Soviet (Dis)union at the 1990 Bilderberg.[1]

Background

Andreas Meyer-Landrut was born as the son of the paper manufacturer Bruno Meyer-Landrut (1892-1973) and his wife Käthe Winter (1902-1991). He was born into a Baltic German industrial family and initially grew up in Tallinn, Estonia. His father was a board member of a pulp mill there.[2] From autumn 1936 to November 1939, Meyer-Landrut attended a private German preschool. At the beginning of the Second World War, the family was relocated from Estonia to occupied Poland due to the German-Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty, where Meyer–Landrut attended the state secondary school until January 1945. Towards the end of the war, the family fled from there to West Germany and settled in Bielefeld.[3]

Education

Meyer-Landrut first studied law and political science, then Slavic philology, sociology and Eastern European history at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the University of Zagreb (Yugoslavia). In 1955 he took a doctorate in Göttingen with a dissertation supervised by Maximilian Braun on the national function of the Zagreb Theatre in the context of the cultural, social and political development of the Croatian people during the first half of the 19th century. doctorate.

Career

Meyer-Landrut joined the Federal Foreign Office in 1955. His foreign posts included Brussels, Tokyo and Brazzaville, where he headed the embassies. Due to his language skills, he soon became one of the Russia specialists in the diplomatic service. He held posts at the German Embassy in Moscow a total of five times, most recently as ambassador from 1980 to 1983 and from 1987 to [[1989]. ]He thus played a key role in the rapprochement between the German government under Helmut Kohl and the Soviet leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev during perestroika. During this time, he was particularly committed to the Russian Germans.

From 1984 to 1986 he was State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn under Hans-Dietrich Genscher. From 1989 to 1994, as an official state secretary (chief of staff), he was the head of the Federal Presidential Office under Richard von Weizsäcker.

After the end of his civil service career, he headed the Moscow representative office of DaimlerChrysler AG until 2002. He also took over the chairmanship of the German-Russian Forum.

Meyer-Landrut is involved in the German Equestrian Association.[4] He is grandfather of the singer Lena Meyer-Landrut.

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Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/199010 May 199013 May 1990New York
US
Glen Cove
38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests
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