Andreas Zobel
Andreas Zobel (born March 18, 1953 in Berlin ; † December 22, 2009 there ) was a German diplomat and from 2005 to 2007 German ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro .
Zobel joined the senior foreign service in 1984 and was employed in various posts as a speaker and permanent representative . From 1992 to 1993 he took part in the Yugoslavia Conference of the United Nations , in 1999/2000 he was a member of the "EC Tark Force Kosovo" in Pristina . After his last position as head of the EU coordination group in the Federal Foreign Office , he was appointed ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro in January 2005. There he caused political complications on April 11, 2007 when he called for the rapid separation of Kosovo from Serbia during a panel discussion . He also said that Serbia deserves a better political elite. After the statements were sharply criticized - the Serbian government accused Zobel of questioning the territorial integrity of Serbia - Zobel was forced to apologize on April 12. In September 2007 he ended his activities as ambassador in Belgrade, he was succeeded by Wolfram Maas .
At the end of December 2009, the Serbian newspaper Večernje Novosti reported , citing the German embassy in Belgrade, that Zobel had died in Berlin after a serious illness.
Web links
- Wolf Oschlies: Sable in a porcelain shop in: Eurasisches Magazin 04/2007 (viewed May 9, 2007)
- Andreas Rinke: Interference welcome - but diplomatically in the Handelsblatt of April 16, 2007 (accessed May 9, 2007)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=11&status=jedna&vest=166864&title_add=Umro%20Andreas%20Cobel&kword_add=andreas%20cobel , see also http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/archive/news /20091229/500/500.html?id=1916867
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zobel, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 2009 |
| Place of death | Berlin |