Christoph Retzlaff

Christoph Retzlaff, 2018

Christoph Retzlaff (born March 10, 1962 in Stuttgart ) is a German diplomat.

Life

Christoph Retzlaff studied law and modern and contemporary history in Freiburg. After the first state examination in law in Freiburg, he completed his legal clerkship from 1990 to 1993 in Berlin and Brussels. He wrote his master's thesis in modern history with Heinrich August Winkler on the subject of state emergency in the Weimar Republic. He passed the second state examination in law in July 1993 in Berlin.

Retzlaff began his diplomatic career in 1994 at the Moscow embassy. From 1997 to 2001 he was initially employed at headquarters in the United Nations Department and later in the personnel department. From 2001 to 2004 he was deputy ambassador to the embassy in Rangoon / Myanmar. In 2004 he returned to the Political Department of the Foreign Office as Deputy Head of Unit for Central Asia and the South Caucasus. In 2008 he was transferred to the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York as international law advisor and deputy head of the political department. In 2011 he was a member of the German team in the UN Security Council.

In 2011, Christoph Retzlaff returned to the European Department of the Foreign Office in Berlin as Head of Unit, responsible for fundamental questions of EU external relations and EU expansion policy. In 2014 he was transferred to the Cairo embassy as permanent representative of the ambassador. Christoph Retzlaff has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ghana since July 2016.

Web links

• CV on the website of the embassy in Accra