Annette Klein

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Annette Klein (born May 15, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German diplomat and has been Consul General in Miami ( Florida ) since 2016 .

Life

After graduating from high school , Annette Klein studied law and passed the first state examination in law in 1986 . She then joined the Foreign Service in 1987 and, after completing the career test for the higher civil service, was herself a consultant in the training and further education center of the Foreign Office in Bonn from 1989 to 1990 . Between 1990 and 1992 she was a consultant at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York City and then until 1994 Permanent Representative of the Consul General in Skopje .

After Annette Klein was a consultant for multilateral technical cooperation at the Foreign Office in Bonn from 1994 to 1996, she became a staff member at the OSCE Regional Center Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina and then from 1997 to 2000 cultural consultant at the embassy in Mexico . After her return in 2000, she first became a consultant for bilateral relations with Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Austria and then in 2001 head of Section 704 (Protocol) at the Foreign Office in Berlin . After working from 2005 to 2007 as permanent representative of the ambassador in Afghanistan , she was head of Section 1-IT at the Foreign Office in Berlin until 2010 and then completed an annual course in Polish .

Annette Klein was consul general in Gdansk from 2011 to 2014. In this capacity, she took part in the commemoration ceremonies for the so-called Children of Kamp on March 5, 2012 . When a completely overloaded Dornier Do 24 crashed on March 5, 1945 on the Pomeranian Baltic Sea coast , over 70 children were killed who were to be evacuated as part of the Kinderland deportation .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Children from Kamp: Memorial hour on March 5, 2012
  2. Commemoration for the victims of the Dornier crash: “A memorial of history, a memorial for peace” ( Memento from April 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Nordkurier of March 5, 2012