Dirk Baumgartner

Dirk Baumgartner (born September 18, 1945 in Bünde ) is a German diplomat .

biography

After graduating from high school , he studied law between 1966 and 1971 and passed the first state examination in law in 1971 . After the second state exam in 1974, he was from 1975 to 1977 research assistant at the Institute of European Law of the University of Saarland and doctorate during this period in 1976 and for Dr. iur. with the dissertation Social Binding of Property and Expropriation in France .

In 1977 he entered the diplomatic service and after completing his attaché training in 1979 he was employed in the Foreign Office and then from 1981 to 1984 as permanent representative of the ambassador in Togo. Subsequently, he was head of the press department at the embassy in Greece and from 1988 to 1990 a consultant in the legal department of the Federal Foreign Ministry. After working as a permanent representative at UNESCO in Paris , he was Deputy Head of the Human Rights Task Force at the Federal Foreign Office between 1993 and 1997 .

After a subsequent assignment as head of the economic department of the embassy in Hungary , he worked from 1999 to 2003 at the permanent representation of the international organizations in Geneva and as such a delegate to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

In 2003 he was appointed ambassador to Guinea as the successor to Reinhard Buchholz and in 2006 he handed over this office to Karl Prinz .

Dirk Baumgartner was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Qatar from 2006 to 2010 .

publication

• Social ties of property and expropriation in France , dissertation University of Bonn, 1975

Web link

• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who is who in German law (online version)