Alfred Simms-Protz

Alfred Simms-Protz (born September 9, 1952 in London ) is a German diplomat who was ambassador to Bahrain from 2015 to 2018 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Marquartstein in 1972, Simms-Protz began studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed in 1977 with the first state examination in law. After completing the legal clerkship between 1978 and 1980 , he passed the second state examination in 1980.

In 1981 Simms-Protz began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and between 1983 and 1984 he was first personal advisor to one of the ministers of state in the Foreign Office and from 1984 to 1987 culture and press advisor at the embassy in Jordan . He then acted as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Bangladesh between 1987 and 1989 and as Deputy Head of Training for the Foreign Service from 1989 to 1991, before becoming Deputy Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the international organizations in Vienna between 1991 and 1996 was.

From 1996 to 2000, Simms-Protz was Deputy Head of the International Conferences Section in the Protocol Department of the Foreign Office and between 2000 and 2004 Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City . After being Consul General in Geneva from 2004 to 2006 , he served as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Australia between 2006 and 2010 . From 2010 to 2013 he was head of the secret protection and security department of the diplomatic missions abroad and from 2013 to 2014 consul general in Erbil , before he was employed again as an employee of the German Foreign Office in Berlin from 2014 to 2015 .

In 2015, Simms-Protz succeeded Sabine Taufmann as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bahrain . In 2018 he was replaced by Kai Boeckmann .

Web links

• Ambassador Alfred Simms-Protz ( Memento from June 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Embassy in Manama (page accessed on December 4, 2015)