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Consul General David Gill

Consul General David Gill, © Beowulf Sheehan
Born in Schönebeck/Elbe on March 2, 1966; married, two children. Since August 2017 Consul General in New York
2012- 2017 State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Federal President
2004 – 2012 Deputy Representative of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) to the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU
2001 – 2003 Desk officer, Office of Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Berlin
2000 – 2001 Desk officer, Federal Ministry of the Interior
2000 Second state examination in law
1998 – 2000 Legal clerkship
1998 Internship at the United States Congress, Washington D.C.
1997 – 1998 Master of Laws (LL.M.) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1997 First state examination in law
1992 – 1996 Law studies at Freie Universität Berlin
1990 – 1992 Spokesman and Head of Division of the Federal Commissioner for the Files of the State Security Service of the former GDR
1990 Head of Administration, Parliamentary Special Committee for the dissolution of the GDR Ministry of State Security/Office of National Security
1990 Chairman of Normannenstrasse Citizens’ Committee at the headquarters of the Ministry of State Security – Stasi
1988 – 1990 Theological Seminary of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg
1988 Baccalaureate at the Protestant High School, Potsdam
1982 – 1985 Plumber, Herrnhut
1972 – 1982 Ten-year Polytechnic School, Herrnhut
In 1991 David Gill received the Theodor Heuss Medal