Christoph Eichhorn (diplomat)

Christoph Eichhorn (2017)

Christoph Eichhorn (born September 14, 1958 in Heidelberg ) is a German diplomat. He has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bulgaria since July 2019.

Life

Eichhorn studied history, public law and European law as well as political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Freie Universität Berlin and the London School of Economics as well as at the Freie Universität Brussels . From 1979 to 1985 he worked as a radio journalist for ARD . 1985/86 he worked as an EU consultant / advisor in Brussels.

He then joined the Foreign Service . From 1989 to 1992 he worked at the German Embassy in Moscow . From 1992 to 1998 he worked in the management team of the Foreign Office in Bonn. From 1998 to 2000 he was an exchange officer at the United States Department of State . He then worked from 2000 to 2004 in the Political Department of the German Embassy in Washington, DC . From 2004 to 2008 Eichhorn was head of the department responsible for the USA and Canada at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin. From 2008 to 2011, he returned to the German Embassy in Washington as envoy. From 2011 to 2015 he was the Federal Government's Deputy Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control. On September 8, 2015, Christoph Eichhorn, the new German ambassador to Estonia, presented his credentials to President Toomas Hendrik Ilves . In July 2019 he handed over this office to Christiane Hohmann and went to Bulgaria as ambassador.

Christoph Eichhorn is married and has two children.

Web links

• CV (German Embassy Sofia / Bulgaria)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Message in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT October 8, 2019 S3
2. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT October 18, 2019 S1

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Matthias Schlaga	Ambassador to Estonia 2015–2019	Christiane Hohmann
Herbert Salber	Ambassador to Bulgaria 2019–