Christine Althauser

Christine D. Althauser (born in Lahr / Black Forest ) is a German diplomat who has been the German Consul General in Shanghai , China , since 2017 .

Life

Christine Althauser completed her Abitur at the Scheffel-Gymnasium Lahr between 1974 and 1980 to study political science , Slavic and Sinology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . She then went on to do several studies abroad, from 1981 to 1982 in Taiwan , then from 1982 to 1983 as part of a DAAD scholarship to do a postgraduate course in the Soviet Union and most recently in 1983 at the European Parliament .

Althauser has a daughter (* 1991).

career

In April 1985 Christine Althauser began as an attachée the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation joined the Foreign Office in mid-1987 . After her first assignment from 1987 to 1990 at the embassy in the People's Republic of China , she worked as a legation councilor in the section for Russia at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1990 and 1993 and then from 1993 to 1996 at the embassy in the Netherlands .

Between February 1996 and July 1997 Christine Althauser took a sabbatical to prepare for her doctorate at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, which she completed in July 1997 with a dissertation on Russia's path to the Council of Europe with Klaus von Beyme at the local institute for Political Science Graduated.

She then returned to the diplomatic service and was employed at the embassy in Russia between 1997 and 2000 and was then seconded from the Foreign Office to the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense from 2000 to 2003 . After a position at the Permanent Mission to the European Union in Brussels between 2003 and 2005, she took on a lectureship at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg at Jürgen Rüland's chair for political science from 2005 to 2007 .

In addition to teaching, she worked in the economic department of the Foreign Office in 2006 and then from 2007 to 2010 at the permanent representation at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . She then acted as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council between August 2010 and January 2012 and head of the VN02 (crisis prevention) department at the Foreign Office in Berlin and then from January 2012 to August 2014 as the head of the press department at the embassy in Russia.

In August 2014 Christine Althauser became ambassador to North Macedonia and thus successor to Gudrun Steinacker , who in turn became ambassador to Montenegro . Althauser has been the German consul general in Shanghai since summer 2017.

Publications

• Russia's Path to the Council of Europe , 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3535-9

Web links

• CV on the homepage of the Consulate General Shanghai

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BAnz AT October 31, 2014 S2

predecessor	Office	successor
Gudrun Steinacker	Ambassador to North Macedonia 2014–2017	Thomas Gerberich