THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY AUGUST 2024 63 n Christopher Wittmann, 65, a retired State Department Foreign Service officer, died on April 8, 2024, in Arlington, Va. A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Wittmann graduated from Herndon High School and the College of William and Mary. Mr. Wittmann was the first Foreign Service officer to attend the Command and Staff College at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Va., from which he earned an M.A. in 1995. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Wittmann was a law enforcement officer in Fairfax County, Va. Mr. Wittmann had a 29-year career with the Department of State, including postings in Guangzhou, Harare, Bangui, Frankfurt, Pristina, Honolulu (with the U.S. Pacific Command), Vienna (with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), and New York (with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in 2021, which he called “a very difficult time”). During his Washington, D.C., assignments, Mr. Wittmann was responsible for various U.S. efforts to fight international terrorism as well as for overseas building management. Mr. Wittmann retired from State in 2013; his last assignment was as director of the Resources Management Office of the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. His beloved corgis, Boo and Brat, accompanied him to Frankfurt, Honolulu, and Vienna; he used to say they could bark in seven languages. Mr. Wittmann was a patron of the arts, particularly opera, serving as a supernumerary in several Washington productions and giving generously to arts organizations and animal charities. Mr. Wittmann was predeceased by parents Erwin and Rita (Fisher) Wittmann and brother Michael. He is survived by his spouse of 27 years, Nicholas Klosz of Philadelphia, Pa., as well as many cousins, other family members, and friends. n If you would like us to include an obituary in In Memory, please send text to journal@afsa.org. Be sure to include the date, place, and cause of death, as well as details of the individual’s Foreign Service career. Please place the name of the AFSA member to be memorialized in the subject line of your email.
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