Georg Clemens Dick

Georg Clemens Dick (born April 30, 1947 in Aachen ) is a German journalist and diplomat . He was most recently ambassador to Venezuela until June 2012 .

biography

After completing school, he initially trained as a car mechanic from 1962 to 1965 and then worked as a seaman on ships in the Norwegian merchant navy . After graduating from high school , he studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1973 to 1976 and then worked as a journalist for the paved beach until 1983 .

In 1983 he was first press officer in the Bundestag and then in 1985 press spokesman in the Hessian Ministry for Environment and Energy during Joschka Fischer's tenure . After that he was successively press spokesman for the green parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament , deputy government spokesman for the Hessian state government and most recently department head in the Hessian state chancellery .

After Joschka Fischer took office as Federal Foreign Minister, he was appointed Head of the Foreign Office's planning team. He then became Ambassador to Chile in 2000 as the successor to Horst Pahlenberg .

In 2003 he returned to the headquarters of the Foreign Office, where he succeeded Joachim Schmillen as head of the planning team, while the latter took over his post as ambassador to Chile . In 2006 he was promoted to Ministerial Director.

From August 2, 2006 until his retirement in July 2012, Georg Clemens Dick was the successor to Hermann Erath as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Venezuela .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae ( memento of July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Embassy in Caracas