Andreas Brandstätter was a German diplomat. He was born in Kiel in 1959. At the age of 21 he became a United Nations

United Nations

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 worker. After working in Kiel for a long period, in 1985 he went to live in Geneva. He traveled to many countries like Senegal

Senegal

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, Sudan

Sudan

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, and Libya

Libya

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. When he got to Libya he married a Bosnian woman who had escaped from the Yugoslav Wars

Yugoslav wars

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. Then they went both to live in Switzerland; Brandstätter's wife was a doctor but he still worked for the UN. In 1997, his first was born in Geneva. When the decade started, he went to help the poor people in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

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. In 2004, he went to Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince

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 to help the poor kids who were fighting for the president in Haiti

Haiti

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. In January 2006 wile playing tennis, he died from a heart attack.