Claas Dieter Knoop

Claas Dieter Knoop (born March 18, 1945 in Bremen ) is a retired German diplomat and was ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ethiopia and Djibouti from 2006 to 2010 as well as Germany's permanent representative to the African Union with observer status.

Life

After studying law, he received his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. iur. and was from 1975 to 1976 research assistant at the University of Göttingen. After joining the Foreign Service in 1976, first assignments followed at the embassy in New Zealand , the permanent representation to the EC in Brussels and at the Foreign Office in Bonn.

From 1988 to 1991 he was head of the economic department at the embassy in South Africa and then until 1995 deputy head of a department at the Foreign Office. After two years as permanent representative of the ambassador to Thailand , he became head of division in the Foreign Office in 1997.

In 2001, 19 years after his first assignment, he returned to the Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels, where he was Deputy Head of the Political Department until 2006. After his retirement (2010), Knoop took over from November 2012 to June 2014 on behalf of the Foreign Office and of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development / BMZ representing the German co-chair for the partnership "Democratic Governance, Human Rights and Culture" within the framework of the Europe-Africa strategic partnership. As a partner in the consulting company "DiploConsult", he carried out a training project for the government of Mauritius in Mauritius at the end of 2015. In March 2016, Knoop took on a training project in the area of ​​press and media freedom in Nairobi / Kenya on behalf of the "Senior Expert Service / SES" in cooperation with Deutsche Welle. Since 2010 Knoop has taken on teaching assignments at the (private) Jacobs University and the University of Bremen on African and European policy issues as well as numerous lectures and seminars, including a. at the FU Berlin and the New York University Berlin in this range of topics. In September 2016, Knoop was appointed "Adjunct Professor for International Relations" by Jacobs University in Bremen. As a longstanding member of the EU Commission's team of speakers ("Team Europe"), he actively participates in European public relations. Knoop is also an active member of the following organizations: German Society for Foreign Policy / DGAP, Political-Military Society / PMG, Board of Trustees of the German-Ethiopian Foundation of the University of Hamburg, Board of Trustees of the association "Pactum Africanum", association of the city partnership Leipzig-Addis Ababa , Transparency committee of the Menschen für Menschen Foundation, Business Advisory Council of the Ethiopian Embassy in Berlin, Club zu Bremen, Wagner Society Leipzig.

Publications (since 2002)

Distribution of competencies between the EU and the member states, in: Series of publications on European law, politics and economics, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2002. Light into the darkness of the mighty councils, in: europe infos no.38, May 2002. The structure of the European foreign affairs Service, in: Memoirs, Journal of the Political-Military Society / PMG, No. 19, 2004. The Foreign Minister of the European Union and the European External Action Service - Basics in the European Constitutional Treaty, in: Reinhard Hendler / Martin Ibler / José Martinez Soria (ed .): For security, for Europe: Festschrift for Volkmar Götz on his 70th birthday. 2005, p. 93 ff. Comments on the political situation in the Horn of Africa, in: Memoirs, No. 33, 2006; also in: International Security Network of ETH Zurich. Africa-Europe: Neighbors and Partners in the 21st Century, in: Memoirs, No. 40, 2007. Democratising and Developing Ethiopia, in: Addis Abeba University / Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2009. Federalism and Democracy, in: Addis Abeba University / Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2009. Science and Research as Key Factors of Social and Economic Development, in: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn 2011. The Strategic Partnership between the African Union and Europe: Status and Perspectives in the Light of the "Arab Spring", in: Memoirs, No. 78, 2012. The Common Security Policy Strategy of the European Union and Perspectives for Cooperation with Northeast Asia, in: KAS Journal on Contemporary Korean Affairs 2/2013. The strategic partnership Africa-European Union on the test bench, in: International Relations and Security Network, Center for Security Studies, March 2014. Legal basis of European unification, in: Liebert / Wolff (Ed.), Interdisciplinary European Studies, Springer VS, Chapter 7 , 2015.

Web links

• www.jacobs-university.de