Günther van Well [SEP] position held
Günther van Well
Günther Wilhelm Van Well (15 October 1922 – 14 August 1993) was a German diplomat, Secretary of State from 1977 to 1981, and West German Ambassador to the United States from 1984 to 1987.
Career.
In the early seventies, as Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary in the Foreign Office, he was in the development of rapprochement with the GDR, as well as the four-power agreement. 
As Acting Secretary of State, he was appointed by then-foreign minister Hans-
the shake-up, Ruhfus came back again in 1983 to the Foreign Office, where he was Permanent State Secretary in July 1984. 
In November 1987, he was back into the diplomatic service. Ruhfus followed Günther van Well as German ambassador in Washington. He held this office until the end of 1992, when he retired.
He was Chairman of the German-British Society, and on the advisory board of the German American Heritage Foundation. 
Between 1992 and 2001, he was a member of the Supervisory