Walter John Stoessel, Jr.
Walter John Stoessel, Jr. ( born January 24, 1920 in Manhattan, Kansas, † December 9, 1986 in Washington, DC) was an American diplomat who was recently also deputy foreign minister of the United States.
Life
Stoessel, son of a cavalry officer and insurance broker, studied after attending high school in Beverly Hills from 1939 to 1940 at the University of Lausanne and then at Stanford University, where he in 1941 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) acquired.
In 1942 he entered the diplomatic service and was until 1944 vice-consul in Caracas, before he subsequently served as an officer in the intelligence service of the U.S. Navy. After completing his military service, he returned in 1947 back in the diplomatic service and was from 1947 to 1949 vice-consul in Moscow. After spending a year studying at the Russian Institute of Columbia University, he was from 1950 to 1952 Diplomat in Bad Nauheim. After interim uses in the U.S. State Department, he was then 1956-1959 as consul in Paris.
Once again he worked for several years in the U.S. State Department, Stoessel was between July 1968 and August 1972 as the successor of John A. Gronouski Ambassador to Poland. During this time he took in December 1969 on secret talks to the former charge d'affaires of the People 's Republic of China in Warsaw, which eventually contributed to the normalization of relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States.
After his return to the U.S. he worked as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs back in the U.S. State Department initially from August 1972 to January 1974, before he was 1974-1976 Ambassador to the USSR. This was followed by in October 1976 he was appointed Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. In this office he remained until 1981. This year he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was responsible for political affairs (U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ). Last time was Walter Stoessel, who also worked at the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations between February and September 1982 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (U.S. Deputy Secretary of State ).
About the death of Stoessel, who died at a similar blood disease leukemia, there was speculation from conspiracy theorists, who went as far as to unwanted radiation. After his death he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Background literature
- Bernard Gwertzman: Diplomat's Fondest Memory PQXLM China Breakthrough. In: The New York Times, September 24 1982.