administration of Baden-Württemberg
Manfred Wörner was an employee for whom from 1961 to 1962?
Manfred Wörner Manfred Hermann Wörner ( 24 September 1934 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – 13 August 1994 in Brussels ) was a German politician and diplomat . He served as the defense minister of West Germany between 1982 and 1988 . He then served as the seventh Secretary General of NATO from 1988 to 1994 . His term as Secretary General saw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification . Whilst serving in that position , he was diagnosed with cancer , but , in spite of his illness , continued serving until his final days . Family . He grew up in his grandfathers house in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and attended the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium there . He was married to Elfie Wörner , who was supporting several German army related humanitarian agencies , and who died of a tumor on 4 July 2006 . Education . After graduation in 1953 he studied Law at Heidelberg , Paris , and Munich . He closed his studies 1957 with the first and 1961 the second Staatsexamen . He got his Dr . jur . in 1961 writing about International law . Afterwards he worked for the administration of Baden-Württemberg . He was a county official for Oehringen until 1962 , for the Baden-Württemberg Landtag until 1965 and the County Göppingen . Wörner was a jet pilot and reserve officer of the Luftwaffe . Political career . Wörner was a member of the German CDU and was elected to the German parliament , representing Göppingen . On 4 October 1982 he was appointed Federal Minister of Defence in Helmut Kohls government . Wörner played an important role in defending NATOs decision to deploy intermediate-range ballistic missiles IRBM after arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union to reverse Soviet deployment of its SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles IRBM from the years before . In 1983 , Wörner faced criticism due to the scandal surrounding German General Günter Kießling . The German military secret service had accused Kießling of being homosexual—this was later revealed to be a case of mistaken identity—and Wörner had ordered Kießlings early retirement , as homosexuality was considered a security risk at the time . Kießling insisted on disciplinary procedures against himself and eventually achieved his reinstatement . Wörner accepted political responsibility for the affair and on 18 May 1984 offered his resignation , which was however rejected by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl . In December 1987 , the sixteen members of NATO elected Wörner Secretary General . He was the first German to be appointed to that position . Resigning from his post in the German government , he took office on 1 July 1988 . An address given by Wörner in 1990 to the Bremer Tabak Collegium became a subject of a controversy when Vladimir Putin cited it in his 2007 speech at 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy to claim that NATO made a promise not to expand eastward after the end of the Cold War . Wörner executed his duties as NATO Secretary General despite a severe illness and until his death from Colorectal cancer in 1994 . He is buried at the cemetery of Hohenstaufen nearby Göppingen . Personal life . In December 1972 Wörner married Anna-Maria Caesar . From 1982 until his death he was married with Elfie Wörner , née Reinsch ( 1941–2006 ) . Manfred Wörner Medal . Since 1996 , the Ministry of Defense has awarded the Manfred Wörner Medal on an annual basis to honour public figures who have rendered special meritorious service to peace and freedom in Europe . Since then it was given to : - 1996 Richard Holbrooke , US diplomat and Special Envoy in Bosnia and Kosovo - 1997 Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin , publisher and initiator of the Munich Conference on Security Policy - 1998 Dr . Gerd Wagner ( postmortem ) , for the implementation of the Dayton Agreement - 1999 Dr . Janusz Onyszkiewicz , Minister of Defense of Poland - 2000 Elizabeth Pond , American Journalist - 2001 Karsten Voigt , Coordinator at the German State Department for the German-American Cooperation - 2002 Javier Solana , the EUs foreign policy chief and former Secretary General of NATO - 2003 Prof . Dr . Catherine McArdle Kelleher , U.S . Naval War College and former Head of the Aspen Institute Berlin - 2005 Hans Koschnick - 2006 Christian Schwarz-Schilling - 2007 Martti Ahtisaari - 2009 Jörg Schönbohm - 2011 Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz , German diplomat