Andreas Meyer-Landrut
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Andreas Meyer-Landrut in Bonn, July 1989
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| German Ambassador to the Soviet Union | |
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In office 1980–1983 |
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In office 1987–1989 |
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31 May 1929 Tallinn, Estonia |
Andreas Meyer-Landrut (born 31 May 1929) is a former German diplomat. He was West Germany's ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1980 to 1983 and again from 1987 to 1989. He also served as the chief of staff to the office of the President of Germany during the presidency of Richard von Weizsäcker from 1989 to 1994.
Andreas Meyer-Landrut was born on 31 May 1929 in Tallinn, Estonia. He and his family, Baltic German industrialists, were relocated from Estonia to occupied Poland at the beginning of World War II because of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. At the end of the war, the family fled westwards to Germany.
After graduating in 1950 from high school (Gymnasium) with the Abitur in Bielefeld, Germany, he studied Slavistics, Eastern European history and sociology at the University of Göttingen. He spent one year of his studies at the University of Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, and wrote his dissertation, which focused on the Croatian theatre of the 19th century. He became Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen in 1954.
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