Gordon Kricke
Jan-Christian Gordon Kricke (born December 18, 1962 in Kiel ) is a German diplomat who was last ambassador to the Philippines from December 2016 to August 2019 .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1982 and completing military service , Kricke studied law at the University of Hamburg from 1984 to 1989 and passed the first state examination in 1989 .
In 1991 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. with a dissertation on the subject of the restriction of the freedom of disposal in the case of joint wills and in 1993 taking the second state examination in law.
He then joined the Foreign Service and, after passing the career test, was initially employed in the Foreign Office in 1994 and then between 1995 and 1998 at the Embassy in Argentina , before he was then Permanent Representative of the Ambassador in Mozambique until 2000 . After a subsequent activity in the Foreign Office, he was ambassador to Haiti from 2003 to 2005 , at which time the embassy only consisted of himself and a few local staff . He was replaced in this office by Hubertus Thoma .
In 2005 he returned to Germany and became Deputy Head of Unit 303 in the Foreign Office and then from 2007 to 2008 Political Advisor to the EU Special Representative for Sudan in Juba . Afterwards he was permanent representative of the ambassador in Sudan and then between 2009 and 2011 head of the Germany Center in Mexico City .
From 2011, Dr. Gordon Kricke succeeds Rüdiger John as Ambassador to Niger . There he was replaced in September 2013 by Michael Feiner , who was previously the ambassador's permanent representative in Malaysia. Kricke was transferred to Angola and headed the EU delegation in Luanda from 2013 to 2016.
In December 2016 he replaced Thomas Ossowski as ambassador to the Philippines and remained in this position until August 2019. During his time in Manila, he regularly published articles on general topics on the website philstar.com.
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Manila ( Memento from May 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ FOREIGN POLICY: Bundeswehr in Haiti . In: Der Spiegel , No. 9/2004
- ↑ Gordon Kricke. In: philstar.com. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kricke, Gordon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kricke, Jan-Christian Gordon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th December 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |