German’s new ambassador to China who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel has died less than two weeks after assuming his post, the German government said on Sept. 6. German’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the “sudden death” of Jan Hecker, 54, in a short statement in the early hours on Monday. It didn’t give details of when or where Hecker died or his cause of death. The foreign ministry’s spokesperson Andrea Sasse told reporters, “There is no indication that the death was related to Ambassador Hecker’s political function,” and refused to elaborate further. Hecker’s prior roles include serving as a former Interior Ministry official, a judge at Germany’s Federal Administrative Court, and the chancellery’s refugee policy coordinator. He was Merkel’s foreign policy adviser—an influential, though low profile, position—since 2017 before taking up the ambassadorial role. Merkel said Hecker’s death “shocked me deeply.” “I am mourning an …
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