Gunter Pleuger

Gunter Pleuger ( born March 25, 1941 in Wismar ) is a German diplomat. He was from November 2002 to July 2006 the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York and served in February 2003, when Germany held the presidency of the UN Security Council. From 1999 to 2002 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office, in front of Political Director in the Foreign Office and the deputy of the then Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer. Since 1 October 2008, he is President of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt ( Oder).

Life

Gunter Pleuger is the son of German wrestler Alfred Pleuger. He fled with his parents and three other siblings in 1945 from the Mecklenburg Hanseatic City of Wismar from the Red Army in the West, spent ten years of his life in the Sauerland Kierspe city and visited the Zeppelin Gymnasium the neighboring town of Lüdenscheid.

Gunter Pleuger studied in Cologne and Bonn, law and political science at the ENA in Paris. In Cologne he became a member of the Corps Hansea Cologne and 1966 Dr. jur. doctorate. In 1969 he joined the Foreign Service and was used in the following year at the German UN Mission in New York. After holding various positions, including Head of the Human Rights Department in the Foreign Office from 1999 to 2002 as Secretary of State, he took over the leadership of the German Mission to the UN in 2002. Here he represented Germany until 2006, among others in the Security Council, where Germany was for the period 2003 to 2004 non-permanent member.

In the fall of 2000 he was the German negotiators at the EU Conference in Nice. On 21 April 2005 Pleuger was questioned during the investigation committee of the German Bundestag for the visa affair than for the visa process formerly State Secretary responsible. The interview was broadcast live on German television for hours.

Known to a wider public Pleuger was at times the debate about the Iraq conflict, since he took the position of Germany, which held the presidency of the UN Security Council at that time in numerous opinions on the Security Council. Most recently, he tried along with the other G4 nations to reform the United Nations and in the process for a permanent seat in the Security Council in Germany.

Since 2006 he was a lecturer at the University of Potsdam for multilateral negotiation tactics and international politics for two years.

On 9 July 2008 Gunter Pleuger was elected by the Senate at the European University Viadrina as President of the University. He joined October 1, 2008 the successor of Gesine Schwan.

He is a member of the Board of the German Society for the United Nations.