Christian Seebode

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Christian Seebode (born June 21, 1949 in Schweinfurt ) is a retired German diplomat and was most recently Consul General in Lyon .

Life

After graduating from the Johann-Caspar-Zeuss-Gymnasium in Kronach , he studied history and modern languages ​​at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg between 1968 and 1974 and after completing his studies did his military service in the air force of the German armed forces . In 1977 he completed his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg with a dissertation on the topic of monastic book printing in the German-speaking area before the Thirty Years' War: A historical-bibliographical study of the post-bloom of monastic writing, books and libraries in the 15th and 16th centuries . This was followed by academic activities in Florence , Newcastle upon Tyne and Munich between 1978 and 1981 .

In 1981 he joined the Foreign Service and, after completing the career test for the higher service, between 1983 and 1986 initially worked in the political department of the embassy in Poland , before he was then head of the cultural department at the embassy in Czechoslovakia until 1990 . After a subsequent position in the Public Relations Department of the Foreign Office , he was permanent representative of the Ambassador to the Philippines between 1993 and 1996 and then until 2000 Head of the European Affairs Department in the Foreign Office.

In 2000 Seebode became head of the press department of the embassy in Italy and was then permanent representative of the consul general in San Francisco between 2004 and 2008 and then head of the bilateral economic relations department of the embassy in Russia until 2011 .

Christian Seebode has been Consul General in Lyon since August 2011, where he retired in 2014 when he reached the age limit.

He has four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The bear from the embassy, ​​in: Der Sonntag (Karlsruhe), June 2, 2019, p. 20.

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personal data
SURNAME Seebode, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt