Adolf Brüggemann was Defence Attaché and Head of the Military Attaché Staff at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Seoul/South Korea from 1978-83. At that time, a dramatic domestic situation prevailed in the divided country, which was constantly threatened by North Korea (assassination of the president by the head of the secret service, military coup, uprising of the population in Kwangju/Southwest Korea). Five years later, he became defence attaché and head of the military attaché staff at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague. In 1989, he was an active witness in the provisioning from Bundeswehr stocks of a total of over 20,000 GDR citizens who sought refuge in the Embassy in three waves of flight. After the so-called Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in autumn 1989, the successful establishment of military-political relations and military contacts between the Bundeswehr and the army of the Czechoslovak and - after the division of the country - the Czech Republic was not least his work. From June 1990 until the end of his assignment in Prague, he was doyen of the Military Attaché Corps; the first officer from a Western country to hold this post since the Czechoslovak state was re-established in 1945.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Brüggemann, A.
Title
Als Offizier der Bundeswehr im Auswärtigen Dienst. Meine Erinnerungen als Militärattaché in Seoul (Republik Korea) 1978-83 und in Prag (Tschechoslowakei / Tschechien) 1988-93
