German ambassador to China dies less than two weeks into posting
by Helen Davidson in Taipei and Philip Oltermann in B from on (#5P75J)
Angela Merkel profoundly shaken' by death of Jan Hecker, 54, one of her top foreign policy advisers
Germany's ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died suddenly at the age of 54, less than two weeks into his Beijing posting.
Hecker was a former foreign policy adviser to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
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