Guido heart
Guido Herz (born November 24, 1950 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German diplomat . He was u. a. German consul general in Kaliningrad (Königsberg), German ambassador in Tanzania and from 2011 to 2016 German ambassador to Kazakhstan .
Life
He spent his school days at the boarding school in Salem , where he graduated from high school in 1968. After studying medicine (state examination and doctorate in medicine, 1976) and working as a doctor in Heidelberg, he completed diplomatic training as an attaché at the Foreign Office from 1979 to 1981 . Among other things, he was an environmental officer at the permanent EU representation in Brussels (1986–1989) and deputy ambassador to Tunisia (1990–1994). In 1994 he was head of the EU election observation team at the first free elections in Mozambique in November 1994. From 1995 to 1998 he was an advisor to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. In 1998, the then CDU chairman Helmut Kohl appointed him head of the Office for External Relations and International Secretary of the CDU in Germany. He also held this post under Kohl's successors Wolfgang Schäuble and Angela Merkel .
After the federal election in 2002 , Guido Herz returned to the Federal Foreign Office and for the next three years took on the role of inspector of the Federal Foreign Office. From 2005 to 2008, as Consul General, he built the German Consulate General in Kaliningrad, Russia, which opened in 2004 . After that he was the German ambassador to Tanzania until 2011 . From 2011 to 2016 (when he retired) he headed the German embassy in Astana / Kazakhstan.
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| SURNAME | Heart, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |