Henning Wegener
 Henning Wegener    (diplomat) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 June 1936 Wilhelmshaven, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Died | 24 November 2024 (Age 88) | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Bonn, Free University of Berlin, George Washington University, Yale University | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Atlantic Bridge (Germany) | |||||||||||||
German diplomat and NATO official who spoke on The Practical Agenda For the Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg.
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Henning Wegener was a German diplomat who spoke on The Practical Agenda For the Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg. He wrote numerous publications in the fields of foreign and security policy, and was part of NATO negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in 1990[1].
Education
Wegener studied law at the University of Bonn and the Free University of Berlin. After the first state examination in 1958, he completed a master's degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and another at Yale University Law School, in 1960. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, in 1961/1962 on a scholarship from of the Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft. He received his doctorate in law from Yale University in 1962.[2]
Career
In 1962, Wegener entered the Foreign Service. After various assignments (including at the embassies in Jakarta and Paris), he was head of the Economic Department at the Permanent Mission of West Germany to the United Nations Office in Geneva from 1974 to 1977.
From 1977 to 1981, Wegener was on leave and worked as head of the Foreign Relations Office and Head of the Foreign and Security Policy Department at the CDU's federal office in Bonn.
Wegener returned to the Foreign Service in 1981 and headed the delegation of West Germany to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament and other international disarmament bodies as ambassador until 1986. from 1986 to 1991 he was Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs of NATO, Brussels and thus responsible for the political area of the General Secretariat of the alliance under the Secretaries General Lord Carrington and Manfred Wörner.
From 1991 to 1995, Wegener was Head of the Foreign Department (Ministerial Director) at the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, then ambassador to Spain and the Principality of Andorra until 1999.
Early retirement
In 1999, Wegener was unexpectedly retired by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, where the job was to be given to Joachim Bitterlich.Wegener based this assumption on an alleged statement by Wolfgang Ischinger. Wegener sued for his dismissal, but lost the case. "For a top official like him, doubts about meaningful cooperation in the context of the pursued government work' are enough for retirement".[3]. The Tagesspiegel described retirement as "politically motivated", which rarely happened.[4]
Since the end of 1999, Henning Wegener was Managing Director of the management consultancy UNKEL S.L., Madrid, which he founded.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1991 | 6 June 1991 | 9 June 1991 | Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof | The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests |
References
- ↑ https://www.kas.de/documents/252038/253252/130418_mitgestalter_europas_wegener.pdf/efaaef69-ae2f-3da3-5e12-243f109157d1
- ↑ Henning Wegener, The Yale Years, in: Beate Lindemann (Hrsg.) Amerika in uns. Deutsch-Amerikanische Erfahrungen und Visionen, Mainz 1995, p. 325–336
- ↑ http://www.berliner-kurier.de/botschafter-klagte-gegen-entlassung--abgelehnt-17024148
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/diplomatischer-dienst-nicht-ohne-meine-ehre/228112.html
