Abdul Rahman Ashraf

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Abdul Rahman Ashraf (born July 2, 1944 in Kabul , Afghanistan ) is a German-Afghan geologist and former university professor. Since November 26, 2010 he has been the ambassador and extraordinary representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Berlin.

Abdul Rahman Ashraf in Neubiberg

Life

Abdul Rahman Ashraf attended the French-speaking Lyceé Isteqlal in Kabul from 1949 to 1962 and graduated with the Diplome de l'Enseignement Secondaire Francais . From 1963 to 1966 he studied geology at the University of Kabul , which he successfully completed with a bachelor's degree. He then worked as a lecturer at the local institute for geology. In the winter semester of 1968 Ashraf took up further studies at the University of Bonn . Before that he had completed a German language course at the Goethe Institute in Prien am Chiemsee . In June 1972 he finished his geology studies with a thesis on the south-western Eifel and the Rhenish slate mountains.

Field work in Afghanistan to prepare for a doctorate followed. At the same time, Ashraf taught from June 1972 to April 1973 as a lecturer at the Geological Institute of the University of Kabul. Ashraf began his doctoral studies in April 1973. In December 1976, the University of Bonn awarded him a doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. Nat.) For his doctoral thesis, which he completed with summa cum laude. When the Communist Democratic People's Party of Afghanistan (DVPA) took power through a coup, the so-called Saur Revolution , in 1978 and the Red Army invaded in 1979 , Ashraf stayed in Germany. From there he worked for a free Afghanistan.

Numerous activities followed at the German Research Foundation and the engineering geological office of Prof. Dr. Bierther in Bonn. Ashraf's work as a geologist and climate researcher has taken him to many countries. He maintains longstanding scientific contacts, especially with China. Among other things, he researched forest ecosystems and climatic developments in an interdisciplinary project by Chinese and German scientists in the Djungarian region of northwest China. In 2000 Ashraf was elected Vice President of the Sino-German Co-Working Station of Geosciences . From 2002, Ashraf worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Tübingen . On May 23, 2002, Jilin University in China appointed him Professor of Palynology and Stratigraphy .

In 2004, Ashraf followed President Hamid Karzai's call to become Minister Advisory Minister for Mining and Energy. The appointment was based on a cooperation between the Afghan government and the Center for International Migration and Development (CIM). Ashraf played a leading role in granting mining rights for raw materials in Afghanistan, including the successful granting of mining rights for the world's second largest copper mine near Aynak , Lugar province, to the China Metallurgical Group , which is considered the most successful contract in Afghanistan's history . Ashraf, who sees work and education as the key to peace in Afghanistan, is also committed to higher education in the country: at the request of the Afghan President, he headed Kabul University as Rector in 2007.

Ashraf was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009 for its services to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and the cooperation between Afghanistan and Germany .

Ashraf has been married since 1966. He has three children with his wife Mary. He speaks Pashto , Persian , German, French and English.

Fonts

  • Palynology and Palynostratigraphy of the Neogene of the Lower Rhine Bay , Stuttgart, Schweizerbart 1987

Web links

Commons : Abdul Rahman Ashraf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hasnain Kazim: Diplomatic post in Berlin: Tübingen professor becomes Afghan ambassador. In: Spiegel Online . November 2, 2010, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ CIM: Most successful contract conclusion in the history of Afghanistan ( Memento from December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ashraf, Abdul Rahman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Afghan geologist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul , Afghanistan