In October 1974 Voigt was appointed as Ambassador to Iraq in order to reopen the Embassy that had been closed since 1965 in Baghdad . However he only served in that office briefly before he was sent to the Embassy in Stockholm in September 1976 to relieve Ambassador Heinz Dietrich Stoecker who had been taken hostage on 24 April 1975 during the West German Embassy siege by the Red Army Faction . He served there until 1978
West German Embassy siege
West German Embassy siege
Heinz Voigt