Fritjof from Nordenskjöld

Fritjof von Nordenskjöld (born December 23, 1938 in Hildesheim ) is a retired German diplomat . D. From 2004 to 2010 he was acting deputy president of the German Society for Foreign Policy .

Life

After studying law in Tübingen and Munich , he worked as a lawyer in Munich from 1969 to 1970 . From 1970 he was in the service of the Foreign Office , including from 1979 to 1982 as a personal advisor to the then Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher . In 1982 he was appointed ambassador to Port-au-Prince . In 1985 he returned to Germany and became head of the Parliament and Cabinet Department in the Foreign Ministry. From 1987 he was envoy and head of the political department of the embassy in Paris and from 1990 envoy and permanent representative of the head of the embassy in Washington, DC In 1994 he was head of the economic department for a few months and then the central department of the Foreign Office. From 1998 to 2000 he was ambassador to Rome and from 2001 to 2004 ambassador to Paris.

Since October 2004 he has been the executive deputy president of the German Society for Foreign Policy . In 2006 he was honored with the French National Order of Merit for his commitment to Franco-German relations.

Others

He is a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen .

Web links

CV on the website of the German Society for Foreign Policy

Individual evidence

^ Message from the French Embassy in Germany of October 27, 2006 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Dieter Kastrup	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rome 1998–2000	Klaus Neubert

personal data
SURNAME	Nordenskjöld, Fritjof von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hildesheim

[1] Message from the French Embassy in Germany of October 27, 2006 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )