Alexander Olbrich (diplomat)

Alexander Olbrich

Alexander Olbrich (born September 28, 1950 in Neuburg an der Donau ) is a retired German diplomat and was Consul General in Osaka - Kobe from 2009 to July 2013 . From 2013 to 2016 he was the German ambassador in Quito , Ecuador .

Life

After High School in Neuburg an der Donau studied Olbrich 1969-1975 Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and graduated as diploma - chemist from. In 1979 he put there his doctorate Dr. rer. nat. with a dissertation on the topic of determination and characterization of long-chain acyl-coenzyme A compounds in mammalian liver and yeast . He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kyoto between 1979 and 1981 .

In 1981 he joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his career test for the higher civil service, was employed in the press department of the embassy in Japan from 1983 to 1987 and then until 1990 in the department for science and universities at the Foreign Office in Bonn . From 1990 to 1992 he was economic consultant at the embassy in Greece and then permanent representative of the ambassador in Iceland until 1997 , before he was deputy head of the unit for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy at the Foreign Office in Bonn and Berlin from 1997 to 2001 .

Between 2001 and 2005, Olbrich was head of the permanent representation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague and had been ambassador since 2002. After his return, he was head of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Convention at the Foreign Office in Berlin until 2009.

Between July 2009 and July 2013, Olbrich was Consul General in Osaka-Kobe, successor to Gerold Amelung . Subsequently, until his retirement, Olbrich was ambassador to Equador.

Alexander Olbrich has been a member of the board of the German-Japanese Society Berlin since February 2020 as well as Honorary and Founding President of the Alexander von Humboldt Alumni Association Ecuador, as well as an honorary member of the Japanese-German Societies Osaka and Kobe.

literature

• Olbrich, Alexander: Determination and characterization of the long-chain acyl-coenzyme A compounds in mammalian liver and yeast . Ed .: Hochschulschrift München, Univ., 18 - Department of Chemistry a. Pharmazie, Diss., 1979. 1979.

Web link

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Quito Embassy ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kawaraban (Monthly Journal of the German-Japanese Society Berlin eV) March / April 2020. (PDF) In: German-Japanese Society Berlin. P. 3 , accessed on May 14, 2020 .