Hans-Ulrich Seidt

Hans-Ulrich Seidt (born April 18, 1952 in Stuttgart ) is a German diplomat .

Life

After studying law, politics and history at the Universities of Tübingen, Geneva, Bonn and at the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in Paris, which he completed with a doctorate as Dr. phil. graduated, he joined the Foreign Service in 1982 . He received his doctorate in 1983 from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn. phil with a thesis on French Middle East policy. After posting abroad in Moscow, Nairobi, Brussels (NATO) and Washington, he first became a German chargé d'affaires in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2005. In the meantime, from 2003 to 2005 he was a lecturer in international politics at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin. The Valparaiso University in the US state of Indiana gave him the honorary title of Dr. jur. hc From 2006 to 2008 Seidt was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kabul ( Afghanistan ). In September 2009 he became ambassador to Seoul ( South Korea ). He held this post until July 2012. He was succeeded as ambassador to South Korea in July 2012 by Rolf Mafael . After his return, Seidt became head of the Department of Culture and Communication at the Foreign Office and, among other things, was the representative of the Foreign Office at the Max Weber Foundation and the German Archaeological Institute and its commissions ( Commission for Archeology of Non-European Cultures , Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphik and Roman-Germanic Commission ). Seidt is deputy chairman of the Political-Military Society and member of the board of trustees of the Moritzburg Castle International Chamber Music Festival . He is married and has three children.

Publications

• Berlin, Kabul, Moscow. Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Germany's geopolitics. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8004-1438-4
• Alexander Swetschin: Clausewitz - A classic biography from Russia. (= Dümmlerbuch 8215). Translated, introduced and edited by Olaf Rose and Hans-Ulrich Seidt. With a foreword by Vice Admiral Ulrich Weisser (Head of the Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defense). Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-427-82151-X (Bildungsverlag Eins, 1999).
• Europe in the conception of France after de Gaulle. French Middle East Policy and Foreign Policy Community Formation , Diss., Bonn 1983.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German Embassy in Seoul ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Reinald Steck	German ambassador in Kabul 2006–2008	Werner Hans Lauk
Norbert Baas	German ambassador in Seoul 2009–2012	Rolf Mafael