Bernd Westphal (diplomat)

Bernd Westphal (born October 6, 1944 in Diez an der Lahn ) is a German diplomat . From August 2005 to 2009 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Libya .

education and profession

Bernd Westphal studied law at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau. After joining the Foreign Service in 1972, he was employed at the German embassies in Egypt (Attaché), in Saudi Arabia (Second Secretary) and at the Foreign Office in Bonn (Department for the Middle East ). From 1980 to 1983 he was Counselor and Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Zambia . Then he was Counselor at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York until 1987 . From 1987 to 1990 he was head of the German personnel department at international organizations in the Foreign Office. From 1990 to 1992 Bernd Westphal was permanent representative of the ambassador to Saudi Arabia and then until 1996 envoy and head of the economic department at the embassy in Great Britain . From 1996 to 2001 he was employed as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council and as head of Section 508 ( Aliens Law , Asylum Law and Visa Procedures) at the Foreign Office in Bonn and Berlin. From 2001 to August 2005, Westphal was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in San Francisco . He then headed the German Embassy in Tripoli  (Libya) until 2009 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich-Peter Rothmann	German ambassador in Tripoli 2005–2009	Matthias Meyer