The Consul General - Curriculum Vitae

Christian Stocks was born in Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein in 1947. He studied Political Science, History, Art History and Political Law at the Universities of Kiel and Heidelberg, Germany and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. He continued his post-graduate studies at the Universities of Harvard, Essex and Michigan (Ann Arbor) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1976. His doctoral thesis dealt with electoral voting behavior.

In 1977, he joined the German Foreign Service. His first foreign posting was to Madrid followed by three years in Bonn as speech writer for the Federal President. In 1985, he became Deputy Consul General in Mumbay, India and then served as Counselor for Political Affairs at the German Embassy in London from 1987 to 1990.

He then returned to the Foreign Office to head the training department for career diplomats at the Foreign Office’s Diplomatic School. In 1991, he was asked to serve as Foreign Policy Advisor to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group of the German Bundestag. In 1995, he went on to head the Political Department at the German Embassy in Madrid.

In 2000, he was appointed Director General of Foreign Affairs for the Governing Mayor’s office and Chief of Protocol for the State and City of Berlin.

He has been Consul General of Los Angeles since July 2005.

Christian Stocks is married and has one son.

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