Jürgen Trumpf
Jürgen Trumpf ( born July 8, 1931 in Dusseldorf ) is a German diplomat, politician and philologist.
Life
Jürgen Trumpf in 1931 as the son of an elementary school teacher Ernst trump (* 1896) and his wife Ottilie, née Köhler was born in Dusseldorf. He attended elementary school and high school in Dusseldorf (until 1945) and completed his schooling at the municipal gymnasium Neusprachliches on the floodplain in Wuppertal- Elberfeld from; previously he was in 1950 for three months at the Royal High School in Edinburgh.
After the matriculation examination in 1951 Trump began in the summer semester studying classical philology and Semitic languages at the University of Cologne, where, among other Jachmann Günther, Josef Kroll and Andrew Hull were among his academic teachers. From the winter semester 1951/1952 until the summer semester 1952, he moved to the University of Innsbruck and then returned to Cologne. In the academic year 1954/1955 he studied on a scholarship from the Greek Government at the University of Athens. After his return, he received his doctorate in November 1956 with the dissertation studies on Greek poetry and employed by the German Archaeological Institute as an assistant for the excavation at the Kerameikos in Athens that took place at that time under the direction of Dieter Ohly. From July 1957 to April 1958 worked trump in a private service contract for his supervisor Reinhold Merkelbach on the review γ of the pseudo - Callisthenes.
Then hit trump a diplomatic career. In April 1958 he entered the preparatory service for the higher Foreign Service. In 1959 he had his first diplomatic mission abroad as attaché in Cairo. From 1962 to 1967 he was counselor of legation at the German Embassy in London, then German Consul in Rotterdam. 1970 assigned him to the Foreign Office to Unit 410 " European Communities " to whose guidance he took over in 1975. From 1979 to 1984 Trump was the ambassador at the Permanent Representation to the European Communities in Brussels. Then he returned to the Foreign Office. He was promoted to Ministerialdirigenten and charged with the direction of the Department 40 " development policy ". A year later, he took over the management of the Division 41 " European Communities ".
From 1 September 1994 to October 17, 1999 Trump was Secretary General of the Council of the European Union. In 1999, he was also the first High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, a newly created office, which was connected with that of the Secretary-General. In October 1999, Javier Solana was appointed as his successor for both offices.
Trump was 1999-2012 president of the Institute for European Policy, whose honor he is a member.