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Donald Edwin Nuechterlein (June 20, 1925 – July 7, 2022) was an American diplomat and academic who was a professor of international relations at the Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville,
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, from 1968 to 1988.


Early life

Nuechterlein was born in
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, on June 20, 1925, the son of Edwin William and Laura Anna Nuechterlein. He earned bachelor's master's and PhD degrees from the
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Career

He was professor of international relations at the Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1968 to 1988. He held the following titles with the United States government: * U.S. Government, assistant reports officer in
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, Germany, 1946–47 * U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, research analyst, 1952–54 * U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1954–56 * Desk Officer in Washington, D.C., 1957–60 * Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, 1960–63 * U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC, senior staff officer, 1964–68 He was professor of international relations at the Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1968 to 1988. In 1948, he married Mildred Virginia Usak, and they had four children, Jan, Jill, Jeffrey, Jonathan. He was a fellow of the
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Personal life and death

In 1995, his son, lawyer Jeffrey Donald Nuechterlein, married Abigail Riggs Spangler, daughter of billionaire businessman Clemmie Spangler. He died in
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on July 7, 2022, at the age of 97.


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1925 births 2022 deaths People from Saginaw, Michigan University of Michigan alumni Academics from Michigan American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers Rockefeller Fellows United States Navy personnel of World War II Cultural attachés American expatriates in Germany American expatriates in Iceland American expatriates in Thailand {{US-diplomat-stub