Friedrich Ludwig Lohr

Friedrich Ludwig Löhr (* in Ingolstadt an der Donau ) is a retired German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school , Löhr studied law , French and international relations at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the University of Montpellier and the University of Oxford between 1966 and 1974, and during this time in 1970 he took an exam in French legal language from Heidelberg University. After taking the first state examination in law in Heidelberg in 1971 , he studied between 1971 and 1974 with a Rhodes scholarship at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a master's degree in philosophy (M. Phil.) In 1974 . In 1972 he also took courses at the Research Center of the Hague Academy for International Law and finally worked as a trainee lawyer at the Heidelberg Regional Court from 1974 to 1975 .

In 1975, Löhr joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his career test for the higher civil service, was employed in 1977 as a press and political officer at the embassy in Yugoslavia and then in 1980 as a consultant in the areas of foreign cultural policy for Africa and the Poland workforce of the Foreign Office in Bonn . After a subsequent assignment from 1982 to 1985 as a consultant for disarmament at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City , he became Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Sudan , before joining the Permanent Mission to the European Union between 1987 and 1990 in Brussels liaison with the European Parliament in Strasbourg .

He then became a consultant in the planning staff of the Foreign Office and then, in 1991, deputy head of the European Policy Department in the Federal Chancellery . After working in the planning group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group of the German Bundestag from 1993 to 1995 , he was first permanent representative of the ambassador in Hungary in 1995 and then briefly from August to September 1995 head of the consular department of the embassy in the Czech Republic .

Löhr was then permanent representative of the Ambassador in Algeria from September 1995 to 1997 and, after a subsequent assignment at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, in 1998 became a consultant in the Department for Disarmament of Biological and Chemical Weapons at the Foreign Office. In 2002 he was appointed envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador to the People's Republic of China .

In 2005, Löhr, succeeding Doris Hertrampf , who became head of division in the Foreign Office, received accreditation as an ambassador to North Korea . He held this position until he was replaced by Thomas Schäfer in 2007 and was then a fellow at Harvard University for one year .

From 2008 to 2012 Friedrich Ludwig Löhr was Consul General in Boston . The Consulate General's administrative district includes the states of Connecticut (excluding Fairfield County ), Maine , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , Rhode Island, and Vermont .

Web links

• Goodbye, Consul General Friedrich Löhr! German Mission in the United States of July 9, 2012 (English)