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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Lieven</span></h1>
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<p><b>Alexander Lieven</b> (geb. <i>Alexander Pawlowitsch Lieven</i>; * <a href="13._September" title="13. September">13. September</a> <a href="1919" title="1919">1919</a> in <a href="Rostock" title="Rostock">Rostock</a>; † <a href="30._M%C3%A4rz" title="30. März">30. März</a> <a href="1988" title="1988">1988</a> in Pebmarsh, <a href="Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>) war ein britischer <a href="Journalist" title="Journalist">Journalist</a> und Geheimdienstmitarbeiter <a href="Deutsch-Balten" title="Deutsch-Balten">deutschbaltischer</a> Herkunft.
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<p>Sein Vater war Paul Johann <a href="Lieven_(Adelsgeschlecht)" title="Lieven (Adelsgeschlecht)">von Lieven</a>, seine Mutter Natalie Therese, geb. Baronin <a href="Taube_(Adelsgeschlecht)" title="Taube (Adelsgeschlecht)">von Taube</a>.
</p><p>Lieven arbeitete für das <a href="Secret_Intelligence_Service" title="Secret Intelligence Service">MI6</a> und für die <a href="British_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="British Broadcasting Corporation">BBC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>1960 kam er zur BBC als „Russian Programme Organiser“. Von 1964 bis 1969 war er Stellvertreter von Maurice Latey, dem Chefkommentator der <i>BBC External Services</i>. Zusammen überwachten sie den russischen, rumänischen, bulgarischen und jugoslawischen Bereich.<sup id="cite_ref-Briggs_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Briggs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Am 14. Oktober 1972 wurde er „Controller“ des BBC European Service.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Er wurde auf dem Londoner Gunnersbury Cemetery bestattet.
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<p>Lieven war verheiratet mit Veronica Eileen Mary Monahan (1917–1979) und Joanne Edgecumbe-Rendle (* 1921).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Er hatte fünf Kinder, u. a.:
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<ul><li>Elena Lieven (* 18. August 1947), Psychologin</li>
<li><a href="Dominic_Lieven" title="Dominic Lieven">Dominic Lieven</a> (* 19. Januar 1952), Osteuropahistoriker</li>
<li><a href="Anatol_Lieven_(Politikwissenschaftler)" title="Anatol Lieven (Politikwissenschaftler)">Anatol Lieven</a> (* 28. Juni 1960), Politikwissenschaftler</li>
<li>Nathalie Lieven (* 20. Mai 1964), Juristin</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Dominic Lieven: <i>The BBC Russian Service and Cultural Relations</i>. In: <i>Istoria</i>, Volume 6, Issue 10 (43); <a href="https://doi.org/10.18254/S0001316-6-2" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.18254/S0001316-6-2">doi:10.18254/S0001316-6-2</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Baltische_Historische_Kommission" title="Baltische Historische Kommission">Baltische Historische Kommission</a> (Hrsg.): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bbld.de/0000000397277577">Eintrag zu Lieven, Alexander Fst.</a> In: <i><a href="Baltisches_biografisches_Lexikon_digital" title="Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital">BBLD – Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital</a></i></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/composition/67b38cf5-542c-4565-8c1c-fb334d21346f-Former-Head-Of-The-BBCs-Russian-Service-Alexander-Lieven">„This Is London - 50 Years Of Broadcasting To The World“</a> (1982) by Alexander Lieven, former head of the BBC's Russian Service</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0011500387001">„Alexander Lieven on death of Vladimir Simeanov“</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sanchia Berg: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35382848">„Was there a communist witch-hunt at the BBC?“</a>, 26. Januar 2016.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Briggs-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Briggs_2-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Asa_Briggs" title="Asa Briggs">Asa Briggs</a>: <i>The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: 1955–1974</i>. S. 686.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Asa Briggs: <i>The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: 1955-1974</i>, S. 969.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/people-nation-empire/emigres"><i>History of the BBC: Émigrés</i>.</a> BBC; abgerufen am 25. Dezember 2018.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/lieven.html">angelfire.com</a></span>
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