Elmar Jakobs

Elmar Jakobs (born June 29, 1965 in Heinsberg ) is a German diplomat who was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Equatorial Guinea from September 2016 to August 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1984, Jakobs initially completed an apprenticeship in the foreign affairs department of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, which he graduated in 1987 with a degree in administrative management. He then worked from 1987 to 1989 in the human resources department of the Foreign Office in Bonn and from 1989 to 1994 as Vice Consul at the Embassy in Argentina . After his return he was employed in the protocol department in the Foreign Office in Berlin from 1994 to 1998 and then between 1998 and 1999 as head of technology in the organizational staff for the G8 summit in Cologne in 1999 and the EU Council Presidency in 1999 .

Jakobs then completed the preparatory service for the higher foreign service from 1999 to 2001 and after its graduation was first secretary for politics and press at the embassy in Saudi Arabia between 2001 and 2004 and first secretary for culture and education at the from 2004 to 2007 Embassy in Spain . This was followed by a position in the Relationship to the Islamic World unit in the Foreign Office between 2007 and 2009 and as a consul for politics and science at the Consulate General in New York City from 2009 to 2012 , before he was also deputy head of the International Conferences Unit between 2012 and 2016 and summit meeting as well as deputy head of the organizational staff for the German G7 presidency in 2015 and co-organized the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau in 2015 .

In September 2016, Jakobs replaced Rainer Münzel as ambassador of the Federal Republic in Equatorial Guinea and held this office until August 2019.

Jakobs is married and has two children.

Web link

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Malabo ( Memento from December 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )