Bernd Wulffen

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Bernd Wulffen (2011)

Bernd Wulffen (born October 9, 1940 in Klosterheide , Brandenburg province ) is a German diplomat and represented the Federal Republic as ambassador in various countries, most recently in Cuba .

Life

Wulffen grew up in the Sudetenland . After the Second World War , his family moved to Thuringia , but fled to the American zone of occupation in 1948 . The family moved to Central Hesse in 1952, where Wulffen attended the Goetheschule Wetzlar and graduated from high school in 1959. From 1959 to 1965 he studied law , Romance studies and political science in Frankfurt am Main , West Berlin and Marburg . In Frankfurt he became a member of the Corps Austria . In 1967 he received his doctorate and from 1968 worked briefly as a lawyer. In 1969 he entered the higher foreign service . From 1970 to 1991 he was cultural attaché and consul at the German embassies in Buenos Aires and Mexico City , ambassador in Kuwait and Bahrain, and economic and science attaché in Indonesia and the People's Republic of China . He was then from 1999 to 2000 civil coordinator in Kosovo . From 2001 to 2005 Wulffen was ambassador to Cuba.

Bernd Wulffen is married to an Argentine woman and lives alternately in Argentina and Germany. So far he has published two books about Cuba and his time as ambassador there.

Works

  • Judicial examination rights in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation of the 18th century . Frankfurt am Main (dissertation) 1967.
  • Dictionary of economic terms . Brandstetter, 1985, ISBN 3-87097-122-3 .
  • Ice Age in the Tropics - Ambassador to Fidel Castro . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-406-1 .
  • Cuba in transition - From Fidel to Raúl Castro . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-486-0 .
  • Not just with the cocktail glass . Self-published, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024867-2 .
  • German traces in Argentina. Two centuries of changeful relationships . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-573-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Kruse (ed.): Kösener Corpslisten 1996. Nürnberg 1998, p. 49, serial no. 529.

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personal data
SURNAME Wulffen, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterheide