Dirk Brengelmann
Dirk Brengelmann (* 1956 ) is a German diplomat . He was ambassador to Brazil from 2014 to 2016 and has been ambassador to the Netherlands since 2016 .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1974, Brengelmann began studying economics , business administration and history at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg and the University of Hamburg , which he graduated in 1980. He then began his professional activity at Westdeutsche Landesbank in Düsseldorf , where he worked in investment banking until 1984 , where he worked for the Westdeutsche Landesbank branch in Tokyo from 1981 to 1983 .
In 1984 he began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after graduating in 1986 he joined the Foreign Office , where he was first personal assistant to a minister of state in the foreign office and then between 1987 and 1989 permanent representative of the ambassador in Haiti . After a subsequent assignment from 1989 to 1992 as Political Officer at the Embassy in the United Kingdom , he was Deputy European Correspondent at the Foreign Office between 1992 and 1997 and then from 1997 to 2000 Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in the USA .
In 2000, Brengelmann took on the role of deputy head of the office of NATO Secretary General George Robertson in Brussels and then from 2003 to 2006 as head of division at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin . After he was Head of the Security and Defense Policy Department in the Federal Foreign Office between 2006 and 2008, he was Envoy of the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO in Brussels from 2008 to 2010 and was then Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs between 2010 and 2013 Affairs and Security Policy in Brussels. From 2013 to 2014, he then held the newly created role of Special Representative for Cyber Foreign Policy in the Foreign Office. In August 2014 Brengelmann became Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brazil and thus successor to Wilfried Grolig , who had retired. In August 2016 he moved to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Netherlands as ambassador .
Web links
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Wilfried Grolig |
German Ambassador to Brazil 2014–2016 |
Georg Witschel |
| Franz Josef Kremp |
German ambassador to the Netherlands since 2016 |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brengelmann, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |