Helmut von Verschuer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1926
Place of Birth: Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Profession: civil servant
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Helmut von Verschuer
- Helmut Freiherr von Verschuer (born 6 December 1926), sometimes referred to as Helmut van Verschuer in Dutch, was a European civil servant who was a high-ranking official of the European Commission from 1958 until 1987.
- He was born in Tübingen. A member of the noble Dutch Verschuer family, which was closely connected to the Trott zu Solz family, Verschuer attended the Musterschule in Frankfurt.
- He then studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Giessen, and earned an M.Sc.
- in agriculture in 1950 and a PhD in agriculture at the University of Göttingen in 1956.
- He was a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in West Germany from 1952 to 1958.
- He was also a member of the West German permanent delegation to the negotiations on a European agricultural union 1952–1954 and participated in the Val Duchesse negotiations on the Rome Treaties, their compatibility with the GATT, and the free-trade area (1956–1958).From 1958 to 1987 he worked for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture.
- He was the executive assistant (i.e.
- private secretary) for the first director-general for agriculture Louis-Georges Rabot from 1958 to 1967, Director of General Affairs responsible for international negotiations from 1967 to 1972, and Deputy Director-General from 1972 to 1986.
- He played a key role in the EU's membership negotiations with Spain and Portugal.
- He was also President of the Association œcuménique européenne pour église et société in Brussels.
- He was also the author of several works on the Common Agricultural Policy.
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