Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Stelzer
I'd say that common sense would dictate that an Assistant secretary general is notable ex officio. We usually don't write guidelines that cover rare special cases that don't exactly fit, but are clearly notable because of this relative rarity. Can think of it as an international political office under .  Wikipedia is not going to be overwhelmed by biographies of all Asst Sec Gen'ls past and present. An Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations has the same diplomatic rank as a national cabinet minister, and an assistant secretary is just below that, so apparently the equivalent of a US deputy secretary, which we seem to consider notable.  There's also only one UN, which argues for more notability than just any country's officials.  He is also Austria's UN Ambassador, which also argues for notability
— User:John, 22:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Notability)