Gerold Amelung

Gerold Amelung (born July 25, 1950 in Hanover ) is a retired German diplomat.

Life

After graduating from high school , Gerold Amelung studied Sinology and Economics at the University of Hamburg from 1970 to 1975 . This was followed by postgraduate studies from 1976 to 1978 at the University of Hamburg and at various research institutes in Tokyo , Taipei and Hong Kong . In 1979 he was at the Technical University of Darmstadt Dr. rer. pole. PhD ( dissertation topic : The role of prices in the industrial development of the People's Republic of China, 1961–1976) .

From 1979 to 1982 Gerold Amelung worked as a consultant at the Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn .

In 1982 he joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany. This was followed by assignments as second secretary in the economic department of the Beijing embassy from 1984 to 1987 and then until 1990 in the headquarters of the Foreign Office (department for economic cooperation). Then he was from 1990 to 1994 Deputy Consul General in Osaka - Kobe . This was followed by further assignments in the Foreign Office (department for economic relations with CEE and CIS and department for fundamental questions of foreign trade policy).

From 1998 to 2003 he worked at the Tokyo embassy, ​​initially as a consultant in the economic department, and from 2001 as head of the cultural department. Afterwards he was head of the department responsible for the Goethe-Institut in the cultural department of the Foreign Office. This was followed by assignments as Consul General in Osaka - Kobe (2006–2009), Consul General in Almaty , Kazakhstan (2009–2012) and, until his retirement in 2015, as Consul General in Chengdu , PR China.