Erich Riedler

Erich Riedler (born March 10, 1944 in Dillenburg ; † March 22, 2019 ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After studying ancient and modern Greek , Arabic and Turkish as well as the history of the Middle East at the Universities of Athens, Beirut and Istanbul, which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (1970) and later with a Master’s degree in “Middle Eastern Area Program ”of the University of Beirut (1972), he worked at several Goethe Institutes and at the University of Athens as a German teacher. After joining the Foreign Service in 1973, he was employed at the embassies in Syria and Kuwait and at the Bonn Foreign Office . From 1985 to 1988 he was Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Paraguay . After another assignment at the Foreign Office in Bonn, Erich Riedler became head of the economic department at the embassy in Greece in 1991 . From 1994 to 1997 he was Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Pakistan and then Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Panama for two years . From 1999 to 2002 he acted as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation and Head of the Humanitarian Aid Department at the Foreign Office in Berlin and then until August 2005 as Ambassador to New Zealand . He was then ambassador to La Paz ( Bolivia ) until his retirement .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Riedler in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Volker Anding	German Ambassador to Panama City 1997–1999	Georg von Neubronner
Guido Heymer	German ambassador in Wellington 2002–2005	Jörg Zimmermann
Bernd Sproedt	German ambassador in La Paz 2005–2009	Philipp Schauer