Elmar Weindel

Elmar Weindel (* 1929 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German ambassador in retirement .

Life

Weindel studied law at the University of Würzburg and the University of Erlangen . In 1960 he joined the Foreign Service. From 1963 to 1967 he was employed in Lisbon and from 1968 to 1975 in Tehran . After the federal government had supported the Portuguese colonial regime to the best of its ability , for example through Samuel Cummings , Federal President Walter Scheel recognized the independence of the People's Republic of Mozambique on June 25, 1975 . From July 21, 1976 to 1981, during the Mozambican Civil War , Weindel was accredited as ambassador to Maputo (Mozambique) and Lobamba ( Swaziland ).

From 1982 to 1983 he was Ambassador to Abu Dhabi . He was then employed in facility management at the Foreign Office from 1984 to 1990 . In mid-August 1987 he led a delegation to Rruga Skanderbeg to accompany the establishment of the German embassy in Tirana . In San Francisco he had exequatur as consul general from 1991 to 1994 . He was retired in 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany
2. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany
3. ↑ The resumption of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Socialist People's Republic of Albania and the establishment of the Federal German Embassy in Tirana ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file)
4. ↑ Gerhard Köbler : Who is who in German law