Christian Pauls

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Christian Pauls (born September 26, 1944 in Buckow ) is a retired German diplomat .

After studying law at the universities of Freiburg, Montpellier and Hamburg, he worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1973 to 1975 .

After joining the Foreign Service in 1975, he was employed at the Foreign Office in Bonn and at the embassies of the Federal Republic of Germany in Greece , India , Italy and the USA .

From 1996 to 1999 Christian Pauls was first head of a special staff that worked out the Kosovo mission , then head of a subdivision in the political department of the Foreign Office.

From 2001 to 2005 Christian Paul's Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada . His successor there was Matthias Martin Höpfner . He then became the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ireland . He retired from this post in 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. G. Hofmann: Dossier: 'How Germany got into war' . zeit.de. May 12, 1999. Archived from the original on June 8, 2013.
  2. "Unprofessional Irish" German ambassador angered his hosts , spiegel.de, Sept. 17, 2007
  3. Ireland declares was on Germany. Aldi, Lidl to leave country in protest , The Irish Times , Sept. 17, 2007
  4. Eamon Delaney: Now we're paying for ignoring this frank ambassador , independent.ie, June 3, 2012