Ulrich Hochschild

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Ulrich Hochschild (born April 11, 1949 in Karlsruhe ) is a former German diplomat . He was the German ambassador to Benin , Burkina Faso and Madagascar .

Life

Ulrich Hochschild graduated from the Markgrafen-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe- Durlach in 1967 and then studied history , political science and French for teaching at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Provence Aix-Marseille I in Aix-en-Provence . From 1974 to 1978 he was a grammar school teacher at the Goethe grammar school in Karlsruhe and at the grammar school in Wörth am Rhein with a two-year break to prepare for his dissertation. He did his doctorate in 1981 at the University of Heidelberg under the historian Werner Conze on the subject of social democracy and the League of Nations . The attitude of the SPD and SFIO to the League of Nations from its founding until German accession (1919 - 1926) . From 1980 to 1982 he completed a preparatory service for the higher foreign service.

Ulrich Hochschild has been married since April 2015.

Foreign service

From 1982 to 1984 Ulrich Hochschild worked for the Foreign Office , from 1984 to 1988 for the Consulate General in New York City and from 1988 to 1991 for the German Embassy in Paris (until July 1990 consultant for the international exchange of officials). From 1991 to 1993 he was the German ambassador in Cotonou , Benin. From there he moved to the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery in Mainz , where he worked from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was again at the Foreign Office, from 1998 to 1999 at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Sarajevo , again for a short time in 1999 at the Foreign Office and from 1999 to 2002 at the Permanent Mission to the Western European Union (WEU) in Brussels , first as deputy of the permanent representative Rolf Hofstetter and then as permanent representative. From 2001 to 2002 he was also Acting Head of the Consulate General in Toronto . From 2002 to 2005, under Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer , Hochschild was head of a department in the Department of Disarmament and Arms Control at the Foreign Office in Berlin . From 2005 to 2011 he was the German ambassador in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso, succeeding Mark-Ulrich von Schweinitz . Ulrich Hochschild was involved, for example, in setting up a football boarding school in Ouagadougo, which was set up with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , the Adidas company and the former Braunschweig goalkeeper Johannes Jäcker . From August 2011 to January 2013 Ulrich Hochschild was head of the Consulate General in Strasbourg . From February 2013 to June 2014 he was ambassador to Madagascar, his administrative district also included the Comoros and Mauritius . He then retired.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Hochschild: Social Democracy and League of Nations. The attitude of the SPD and SFIO to the League of Nations from its founding until German accession (1919 - 1926) . INFO Verlagsgesellschaft, Karlsruhe 1982, ISBN 3-88190-036-5 . Preface and p. 411.
  2. ↑ Meeting paper for the special session on Security and Defense: The Challenge for Europe after Cologne from October 18 to 19, 2009 in Luxembourg , p. 9 (English)
  3. ↑ Victor-Yves Ghebali and Daniel Warner (ed.): The Politico-Military Dimension of the OSCE: Arms Control and Conflict Management Issues. P. 233 (English)
  4. ↑ Football & Learning - intercontinental , p. 4 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Hochschild, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe