Christof Weil
Christof Weil (born January 11, 1954 in Heilbronn ) is a German diplomat . Among other things, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Iraq from 2008 to 2009 , to Belarus from 2010 to 2012 and Ambassador to Ukraine between 2012 and 2016 . Most recently, he was the German ambassador to Portugal from 2016 to 2019 .
Life
Weil studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . There he also did his legal clerkship and in 1981 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. with a dissertation on the subject of intervention and liability aspects of cross-border broadcasts . From 1981 to 1982 he was an assistant at the University of Montpellier and then from 1982 an adviser to the Senator for Cultural Affairs Wilhelm Kewenig (CDU) in Berlin (West).
In 1983 he joined the Foreign Office and trained as an attaché until 1985. From 1985 to 1986 he worked for the German and Berlin Department of the Foreign Office; from 1986 to 1989 at the Moscow embassy in the Soviet Union , from 1989 to 1991 at the Brasília embassy in Brazil , from 1991 to 1994 at the NATO department of the Foreign Office, from 1994 to 1997 at the embassy in Warsaw ( Poland ), from 1997 until 1999 planning staff of the Foreign Office, from 1999 to 2003 at the international secretariat of NATO in Brussels . From 2003 he was Head of the Department for European Security and Defense Policy at the Federal Foreign Office. From 2007 to 2008 he was a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in Boston (USA).
In August 2008 he was appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Baghdad in Iraq and worked there until 2009. Since 2010 he has been the German ambassador to Belarus . In 2012 he succeeded Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth as ambassador to Ukraine . In 2016 he went to Portugal as ambassador, where he was replaced by Martin Ney in July 2019 .
He is married to Christine Weil and has two children with her.
Publications
- Intervention and liability aspects of cross-border broadcasts , dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1981, ISBN 3-428-04977-2
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Lisbon ( memento from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kiev 2012–2016 |
Ernst Reichel |
| Ulrich Brandenburg |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lisbon 2016–2019 |
Martin Ney |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Because, Christof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |