Ernst Martens (diplomat)

Ernst Martens (born July 20, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German diplomat .

Life

Martens obtained a high school diploma during a stay as an exchange student in Michigan in 1967 and after graduating from the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg studied law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After taking the First State Exam in 1973, he continued his legal education in the United Nations Legal Department in New York City and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 . After obtaining a diploma from the Hague Academy for International Law , he passed his second state examination in 1979 and was then a research assistant at the Institute for International Law and European Law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where he was also legal advisor to the Rector and the Chancellor .

In 1980 he joined the foreign service and was initially attaché for technical cooperation in the economic department of the Foreign Office in Bonn . During this time he also completed his doctorate in 1982 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen with a dissertation on the topic of coastal state marine jurisdiction, fiduciary activity . Subsequently, between 1982 and 1986 he was head of the cultural department at the embassy in Indonesia and then, after his return, he was a consultant for international law at the Foreign Office.

After serving as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Paraguay from 1989 to 1992, he was legal advisor to the Permanent Mission to the UN until 1995 and as such also a delegate to the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations .

In 1995 he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin and was deputy head of the contract law department and, in this function, also took part in international conferences as head of delegations, such as those on the restructuring of international organizations . He was then permanent representative of the Ambassador to Algeria from 2000 to 2003 , before he was Head of Division for Civil Law , Commercial Law , Business Law and Private International Law in the Foreign Office until 2006 .

After a year as a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University , he succeeded Helmut Ohlraun as Ambassador in Trinidad and Tobago in 2007 . From 2010 to 2014 he was ambassador to Costa Rica as the successor to Wolf Daerr , while Stefan Schlueter became the new ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.

Web links

• CV Dr. Ernst Martens ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the German Embassy in Costa Rica (PDF, 66 kB)