Klaus Blech
 Klaus Blech    (diplomat) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 14 August 1928 Stuttgart, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Died | 30 March 2022 (Age 93) | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen, University of Hamburg, University of Paris, University of Chicago | |||||||||||||
Panelist on Developments in The Soviet Union: Political And Economic Impact On The Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg
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Klaus Blech was a German diplomat who was a panelist on Developments in The Soviet Union: Political And Economic Impact On The Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg.[1]
Education
Klaus Blech was born in Stuttgart as the son of a painter and art dealer who came from Lower Silesia, and grew up in Heilbronn. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Universities of Tübingen, Hamburg, Paris and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, at the University of Chicago.[2]
Career
He passed the first state examination in law in 1952 and the second in 1958. In the same year he received his doctorate in Tübingen with a thesis on the foreign violence of the USA and entered the Foreign Service.
Initially, he worked there as an attaché in the office of Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano. From 1959 to 1961 he worked in Vienna and from 1962 to 1964 in Jakarta, Indonesia. From 1965 to 1968 he worked as a personal advisor to the then State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office and later Federal President Karl Carstens and his successor at the Federal Foreign Office Klaus Schütz. In 1968 he went to Tokyo as an embassy counsellor for three years. From 1971 to 1981 he worked in Bonn, among other things, as head of planning and from 1977 as political director.
In the seventies he was involved in the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt.[3]
As head of planning, he led the negotiations in Geneva for the conclusion of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe Final Act in Helsinki in 1975. He became ambassador to Tokyo in 1981.[2]
From 1984 to 1989, Blech was head of the Federal Presidential Office during the first term of President Richard von Weizsäcker. He then exchanged positions with his predecessor in Moscow, Andreas Meyer-Landrut, and was the German ambassador in Moscow from 1989 until his retirement in 1993, and thus during the German reunification and dissolution of the Soviet Union.[2]
Blech spoke Japanese, Russian and Chinese, among other languages.
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 |
