Klaus Kinkel

Klaus Kinkel was a German statesman, civil servant, diplomat and lawyer who served as the minister of Foreign affairs and the vice chancellor of Germany in the government of Helmut Kohl. Kinkel was a career civil servant and a longtime aide to Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and served as his personal secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1970 and in senior roles in the Foreign Office from 1974.