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{{Short description|German jurist and former diplomat}}
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'''Jürgen Chrobog''' (born
==Life and career==
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A member of the [[Freie Demokratische Partei]], from 1973 to 1977 he worked in the German [[Foreign Office (Germany)|Foreign Office]] under foreign ministers [[Walter Scheel]] and [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]], where he was responsible for European issues as well as the [[Third World]]. In 1977, he was dispatched to Singapore, and in 1980, to the [[European Union]] headquarters in Brussels.
From 1984 to 1991, Chrobog was the head of the press division as well as the spokesperson for the Foreign Office, and beginning in 1988, directed Genscher's ministerial office. From 1995 to 2001, he was the German ambassador to the United States.<ref name=DW/> After this posting, he returned to Berlin as State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office, under foreign minister [[Joschka Fischer]].<ref name=Aurora>{{cite web | url=http://www.villa-aurora.org/index.php?page=jurgen-chrobog-2 | title=Board of Directors: Jörgen Chrobog |website=Villa Aurora |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928150712/http://www.villa-aurora.org/index.php?page=jurgen-chrobog-2 |archive-date=
Chrobog represented West Germany at the [[Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany|2+4 negotiations]] with [[East Germany]] and the four victorious powers of [[World War II]] (the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France) concerning the [[German reunification|reunification of Germany]] and its future as a [[NATO]] member,<ref>{{Cite web |first=Andrea |last=Puccio |date=
In 2003, as undersecretary of state, Chrobog was responsible for dealing with the crisis provoked by the kidnapping of German tourists in Algeria.<ref name=DW>{{cite news | url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1839155,00.html | title=Jürgen Chrobog: Profile of a Gifted Crisis Manager |publisher=Deutsche Welle |date=
Chrobog retired in 2005 and became chairman of the supervisory board at the {{ill|BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt|de}}. In late December that year, he and his family were abducted while traveling on vacation in eastern Yemen;<ref name=DW/> they were released on
==Personal life==
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