Andrea Joana-Maria Viktorin

Andrea Joana-Maria Viktorin

Andrea Joana-Maria Wiktorin (born December 13, 1957 in Bonn ) is a German diplomat who was ambassador to Latvia until 2015 .

Life

After High School Andrea Wiktorin began in 1976, a teacher training program of the subjects history and German and graduated in 1984 with the First State Exam from higher schools. She then worked as a bookseller and then completed her legal clerkship between 1986 and 1988 , which she completed in 1988 with the second state examination.

In 1989 she joined the Foreign Service and, after completing her attaché training and the career test for the higher service, from 1991 to 1992 she was employed at the Foreign Office and then at the Embassy in Estonia until 1995 . After a renewed position in the headquarters of the Foreign Office, she worked at the embassy in the Netherlands between 1997 and 2000 and was then permanent representative of the ambassador in Belarus from 2000 to 2003 . Afterwards she was deputy head of the department in the political department of the Federal Foreign Office between 2003 and 2007 .

On August 16, 2007, Andrea Wiktorin succeeded Heike Renate Peitsch as ambassador to Armenia and held this position until she was replaced by Hans-Jochen Schmidt on October 23, 2009. She was then employed as head of department in the Foreign Office between 2009 and 2012 .

From 2012 to 2015 was Wiktorin Ambassador to Latvia and successor of the retirement came Klaus Burkhardt . Viktorin has headed the EU delegation in Belarus since September 2015 . She replaced the acting head of Maira Mora .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrea Wiktorin to head EU Delegation to Belarus, Charter'97 , July 15, 2015.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Embassy in Armenia ( Memento from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Latvia (accessed on June 29, 2013)