Fritsch, Rüdiger von

Rüdiger von Fritsch in 1973 received a certificate of maturity at the end of the boarding school "Castle Salem", after which he studied history and German studies at the universities of Erlangen and Bonn. During his studies, he received a scholarship to the German Student Foundation. In 1984 he entered the diplomatic service and from 1986 to 1989. He worked as a political assistant at the German Embassy in Warsaw. His tasks included maintaining contacts with an illegal opposition at that time. From 1989 to 1992 He was a Press and Culture Assistant at the German Embassy in Nairobi. After working in the central office of the German Foreign Ministry (press department) and in the German representation in the EU in Brussels (1995-1999, represented Germany in the Antichi group and at the negotiations on the preparation of EU enlargement to the east) from 1999 to 2004. headed the political planning department of the Federal President. From 2004 to 2007 von Fritsch was vice president of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany.

From 2007 to 2010 headed the Department of Economics and Sustainable Development of the German Foreign Ministry and was a representative of the German Sherpa at the G8 talks. From July 2010 to March 2014 - Ambassador of Germany in Warsaw.

Since March 2014 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Russian Federation.

In 2009, von Fritsch published the book The Case of Tom, or the Escape from Germany to Germany ( German Die Sache mit Tom - eine Flucht in Deutschland ), in which he told how in 1974 he and his brother Burckhard helped their cousin and his friends flee the GDR to West Germany. Hans-Dietrich Genscher said about this book: "A courageous deed and an impressive book, extremely visibly reviving the bitter reality of a divided Germany." The historian Heinrich August Winkler wrote: “I rarely read a book in which it was so good to write a separate case, and without that exciting, into a large-scale historical panorama.”

In 2012, this book was published in Polish (“Stempel do wolności. Ucieczka z Niemiec do Niemiec”), and in April 2015 the main parts of the book were published in Russian under the heading “Stamp to the free world” in the Moscow literary journal “Foreign Literature ", Number 4/2015. In 2016, a Bulgarian edition was published under the heading “Print for free. Durability from Germany to Germany "(" The Seal of Freedom, or the Escape from Germany to Germany ").

Rüdiger von Fritsch professes the Evangelical Lutheran faith. Wife - Hubert, nee Frayin von Gaisberg-Schockingen. The couple have five children.

Brother - manager Wolfram von Fritsch. Father's ancestors - Thomas and Jacob Friedrich von Fritsch, great-uncle - Werner von Fritsch (Neopr.) . de.wikipedia.org . The appeal date is January 12, 2019 .. Among his ancestors on the maternal line are Rosen, a deputy of the Duma and the Council of State , Hans Fridrikhovich (Rudiger von Fritsch's great-grandfather) and the governor of Livland province Paul Baron von Han.

• Biography of Rüdiger von Fritsch on the page of the German Embassy in Moscow (Rus.) . www.germania.diplo.de . The appeal date is January 12, 2019.
• The German Embassy in Moscow (Russian) . www.germania.diplo.de . The appeal date is January 12, 2019.
• Official Twitter account of the German Embassy in Moscow (Neopr.) . twitter.com . The appeal date is January 12, 2019.