Franz Josef Kremp

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Franz Josef Kremp (born June 9, 1955 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ) is a German diplomat and has been ambassador to Cyprus since 2017 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974, Kremp did community service in a day care center for mentally handicapped children and young people between 1975 and 1976 and then began studying law in 1976 at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , which he completed in 1983 with the first Graduated from the state examination in law. He began his involvement with Amnesty International when he was still at school in 1972 and was most recently a member of the board of the German Section until 1987. After completing the legal clerkshipBetween 1983 and 1986 he passed the Second State Examination in Law in 1986 and then briefly worked as a lawyer in Wiesbaden from 1986 to 1987 .

career

In 1987, Kremp began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation was initially in the tourism and transport department of the economic department at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1988 and 1989 and then from 1989 to 1991 as advisor for press and economics as well as permanent Representative of the Ambassador in Guinea . After his return, he worked between 1991 and 1995 as a consultant in the OSCE unit of the Political Department of the Foreign Office and then from 1995 to 1998 as Deputy Head of the Economic Department of the Embassy in the United Kingdom , before he was Deputy Head of the Department for Bilateral Relations between 1998 and 2002 to the EU members in Northern and Southern Europe in the European Department of the Foreign Office. Kremp was then permanent representative of the ambassador in Greece from 2002 to 2005 and head of the personnel department in the central department of the Federal Foreign Office between 2005 and 2009 and then acted from 2009 to 2013 as the representative for legal and consular matters as well as migration issues at the Federal Foreign Office.

From 2013, Kremp was the successor to Heinz-Peter Behr as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Netherlands . Kremp was ambassador to Iraq from 2016 to 2017 and has been ambassador to Cyprus since September 2017 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ambassador Kremp presented credentials in Baghdad / Iraq" (report in the Federal Gazette of August 11, 2016): BAnz AT August 11, 2016 S1
  2. ^ " Ambassador Kremp presented credentials in Nicosia / Cyprus " (report in the Federal Gazette of September 20, 2017): BAnz AT September 20, 2017 S1
personal data
SURNAME Kremp, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)