Carola Müller-Holtkemper
Carola Müller-Holtkemper (born November 28, 1955 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German diplomat . She has been the Federal Republic of Germany's Ambassador for Yemen since October 2018 .
Life
After graduating from Kronberg (1974), Müller-Holtkemper studied economics in Frankfurt am Main and Paris (1977/78) until 1980 . She completed her studies in 1980 with a diploma . She then worked for the Banco Nacional de México in Mérida until 1981 . From 1981 to 1983 Müller-Holtkemper worked as a project clerk at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau in Frankfurt am Main. She then worked for the Société Tuniso-Séoudienne d'Investissement et de Développement in Tunis until 1985 .
career
In 1985, Müller-Holtkemper joined the Foreign Service. After two years of preparatory service, she worked as a consultant in the economic department of the Foreign Office in Bonn . In 1987 she worked for the first time abroad as an advisor for press, culture and politics at the German embassy in Amman ( Jordan ). She then worked again for two years as a consultant in the economic department of the Federal Foreign Office before she was sent to the German embassy in Cairo ( Egypt ) as a political consultant from 1992 to 1996 . In 1996 Müller-Holtkemper was appointed German ambassador to Yerevan. From 1999 to 2003 she was Deputy Head of Unit in the United Nations Department of the Federal Foreign Office. This was followed by assignments abroad at the German embassies in Baghdad (2003–2004), Rabat (2004–2006) and Khartoum (2006–2007). Müller-Holtkemper then headed the Department for East Africa in the Foreign Office until 2010. From 2010 to 2013 she was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tirana .
Since September 30, 2013 she has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sanaa (Yemen). After a German embassy employee was killed in Sanaa on October 6, 2013, media reports surfaced that Müller-Holtkemper, as the German ambassador, had been the target of an attempted kidnapping in which one of her bodyguards was shot. Both the Yemeni Foreign Ministry and the Foreign Office in Berlin later denied that the attack on the embassy employee was an attempted kidnapping of Müller-Holtkemper.
In the spring of 2014, Carola Müller-Holtkemper was a. i. at the German embassy in Mauritania and from 2014 to 2015 permanent representative of the embassy in Lima . From September 1, 2015 to September 30, 2018, Carola Müller-Holtkemper was head of the German embassy in Mauritania . She has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany for Yemen since October 2018.
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Sanaa
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiegel Online : Abduction attempt: Attack on German ambassador in Yemen - bodyguards shot from October 6, 2013. Retrieved on October 7, 2013.
- ↑ taz .de: German Embassy in Yemen: Shooting during attempted kidnapping on October 6, 2013. Retrieved on October 7, 2013.
- ↑ tagesspiegel .de: German ambassador in danger? Yemeni Foreign Ministry Denies Attempted Kidnapping October 6, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ↑ faz.net : Federal Foreign Office confirmed: German shot dead in Yemen on October 7, 2013. Retrieved on October 7, 2013.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Norbert Heinze |
German Ambassador to Armenia 1996–1999 |
Volker Seitz |
| Bernd Borchardt |
German Ambassador to Albania 2010–2013 |
Hellmut Hoffmann |
| Holger Green |
German Ambassador for Yemen 2013–2014 |
Walter Hassmann |
| Birgitta Maria Siefker-Eberle |
German Ambassador to Mauritania 2015–2018 |
Gabriela Guellil |
| Hansjörg Haber |
German ambassador for Yemen since 2018 |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Holtkemper, Carola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |