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born: 10 April 1947, Ingolstadt, Germany, married
to Ying (Angela) Zhang |
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| Education |
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| 1966 - 1974 |
Studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Montpelier,
and Oxford
French language (B.A. equiv., Heidelberg 1970),
State Examination in Law., Heidelberg 1971
M.Phil, International Relations, Oxford University, 1974 |
| 1974 |
Attorney training (Heidelberg magistrates' court) |
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| Career |
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| 1975 |
Attaché, German Foreign Office (public international
law section, Protocol, Spanish language training (3 months, Madrid,
Spain)) |
| 1977 |
Second Secretary (Press and Information;
from mid -1979: Political Affairs and Protocol), German Embassy, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia |
| 1980 |
Acting Head of Foreign Office Liaison Office in Berlin
(West) |
| 1980 |
Desk Officer for Cultural Affairs (Africa), Foreign
Office |
| 1982 |
Desk officer for Poland, later for Czechoslovakia
and Bulgaria Federal Foreign Office |
| 1982 |
First Secretary (Political and Disarmament Affairs),
German Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York |
| 1985 |
Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy, Khartoum (Sudan) |
| 1987 |
Counsellor for relations with the European Parliament,
German Permanent Representation in Brussels and Strasbourg |
| 1990 |
Policy Planning Staff, Foreign Office |
| 1991 |
Deputy Director (Europe), Federal Chancellor’s
Office, Bonn |
| 1993 |
Member of Policy Planning Group, CDU/CSU Parliamentary
Party (on secondment) |
| 1995 |
Deputy Chief of Mission, Budapest (Hungary) |
| 1995 |
(Aug/Sept)Consul, German Embassy, Prague (Czech Republic) |
| 1995 |
Deputy Head of Mission, Algiers |
| 1998 |
(Aug/Sept) Chargé d´affaires, German Embassy,
Lagos (Nigeria) |
| 1998 - 2002 |
Foreign Office, Berlin, Department of Disarmament,
Arms Control and Non-proliferation, Head of Section for Biological
and Chemical Disarmament |
| 2002 |
Minister and DCM, German Embassy, Beijing (China) |
| 2005 - 2007 |
Ambassador to North Korea, Pyongyang |
| 2008 |
(4 August) Consul General to New England, Boston (USA) |
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| Awards |
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| 1967 |
"Cusanuswerk" scholarship |
| 1971 |
Election to Cecil Rhodes Scholarship |
| 1972 |
Research Centre of the Academy for International Law
(The Hague) |
| 1997 – 1998 |
12th Internat. Training Course, Geneva Centre for Security
Policy |
| 2007 - 2008 |
Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University, Cambridge |
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