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Berndt Robert Alexander Michael von Staden
(24 June 1919 ? 17 October 2014)
[1]
was a German
diplomat
who was the
West German Ambassador to the United States
from 1973 until 1979.
[2]
Life
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Von Staden grew up as a
Baltic German
in
Tallinn
,
Estonia
. He studied law in Bonn and Hamburg. In 1951, he joined the Foreign Office.
He was head of the Consular Section of the West German Embassy in Brussels, from 1953 to 1955. In 1958, he was posted to the Commission of the
European Economic Community
. In 1961, he married Wendelgard, Freiin von Neurath (born 1926). In 1963, he was Counsellor at the West German Embassy in Washington. Then he was Head of Political Department of the Foreign Office in Bonn.
In his memoir, he describes the beginning of the turn from confrontation to detente, which he observed as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in
Washington, D.C.
In the governments of
Willy Brandt
and
Helmut Schmidt
, he was the Head of Foreign Relations and Security in the Federal Chancellery in the shaping the policy of detente.
In 1970, he met with
Etienne Davignon
.
[3]
Von Staden was given the 1979 Trainor Award.
[4]
Works
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- Zwischen Eiszeit und Tauwetter, Diplomatie in einer Epoche des Umbruchs
. Erinnerungen, wjs, Berlin 2005,
ISBN
978-3-937989-05-1
- Erinnerungen aus der Vorzeit: Eine Jugend im Baltikum 1919?1939
, Siedler, Berlin 1999,
ISBN
3-88680-670-7
- Ende und Anfang, Erinnerungen 1939?1963
, iPa, Vaihingen/Enz 2001,
ISBN
3-933486-28-9
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