Armin Friday

Armin Freitag (* 1930 in Walkersbrunn , now part of Graefenberg ) is a retired German diplomat .

Life

Freitag studied law at the University of Erlangen from 1949 to 1953 and passed the first state examination there . He continued his studies from 1955 to 1956 on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Virginia Law School, where he focused on international law and economics. In 1957 he moved to the administrative college in Speyer . A year later, he was with a thesis on copyright law (the moral rights of the photographer by applicable law and to designs) for Doctor of Laws graduated and completed his second state examination in Munich.

His way into the civil service began in 1959, where he moved to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy . From 1961 to 1967 he worked in the representation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the EC in Brussels, then from 1968 to 1972 in the German embassy in Washington, DC

From 1972 to 1976 he headed Unit 411, one of the two EC units in the Department of Foreign Economic Policy, and from 1979 to 1983 he went to Havana as ambassador .

From 1983 to 1986 he headed subdivision 61 of the cultural department of the Federal Foreign Office and was responsible for regional cultural planning, cultural agreements, multilateral cooperation in the cultural field within the framework of UNESCO, the EC and the Council of Europe, the supervision of German schools abroad, for international ones Questions in the fields of science and universities as well as for the German Archaeological Institute. He then worked again as an ambassador; from February 3, 1986 to 1992 in Tehran and then until his retirement in 1995 in the German embassy in Beijing .

Friday is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1992, Bulletin, p. 567 [1] , Raabe, 1983, Deutsche Universitäts-Zeitung: DUZ., Volume 39, p. 10.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Havana from March 1979 to 1983
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tehran February 3, 1986 to 1992
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Beijing 1992 to 1995