Géza Andreas von Geyr

By Geyr in January 2017 at a talk at the George C. Marshall Center

Géza Andreas von Geyr (* 1962 in Munich ) is a German civil servant , diplomat and ambassador to Moscow since September 2019 .

Military service and studies

After completing his military service , von Geyr began studying modern , ancient history and communication sciences in Munich , Budapest and Vienna in 1982 , which he worked as a Dr. phil. and MA. He also studied political science in Munich and Washington, DC (graduation as Dipl. Sc. Pol.).

In 1991 he joined the Foreign Service . In 1993 he started at the Foreign Office as a consultant in the Political Department. In 1994 he was sent to the German Embassy in Rabat , where he headed the legal, consular and cultural departments. In 1997 he moved to the European Commission in Brussels as a consultant in the Directorate General for External Relations. In 2000 he returned to the Foreign Office as a consultant in the European department. From 2001 von Geyr worked for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag , in the working group on foreign policy and in the office of Wolfgang Schäuble , the deputy chairman for foreign, defense and European policy. From 2006, von Geyr was Head of Division in the Foreign and Security Policy Department at the Federal Chancellery . From 2010 to 2014 von Geyr was Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service . From March 17, 2014 to July 2019, von Geyr was Ministerial Director and Head of Politics in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Von Geyr has headed the German Embassy in Moscow since September 2019 .

In 2007 Géza Andreas von Geyr was awarded the Norwegian Order of Merit and in 2009 the Portuguese Order of Merit. He was made a Knight in 2010 and an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 2017 and was awarded the Spanish Order of Merit in 2017 .

Sándor Wekerle . 1848-1921. The political biography of a Hungarian statesman of the Danube Monarchy. (= Southeast European Works 91) . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-56037-9 .
America, Hungary and the end of the Cold War. American Eastern European Policy 1983–1990, using the example of American-Hungarian relations on Hungary's path from a people's republic to democracy . Tuduv, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88073-474-7 .
"Dealing with autocracies", in: Josef Braml et al. (Ed.), Foreign Policy with Autocracies . DGAP, Berlin 2015, ISBN 3-11-034643-5 .
"Generational Responsibility in the White Paper 2016", in: Florian Hahn (Ed.), Security for Generations . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-85264-2 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich Schlie	Head of the Politics Department at the Federal Ministry of Defense 2014–2019	Detlef Wächter