Hanns Heinrich Schumacher

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Hanns Heinrich Schumacher (born November 10, 1948 in Duisburg - Hamborn ) is a former German diplomat . From November 2011 to June 2014, as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, he headed the German Permanent Mission in Geneva . He has been retired since June 30, 2014. From 2008-2019 he was an elected honorary member of the German UNICEF committee. For the period 2018-2021 he was appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as an advisor to the Advisory Group of the Peacebuilding Fund.

Life

Schumacher completed a degree in political science and law , followed by a doctorate to become a Dr. iur. 1979. After joining the Foreign Service in 1977, he was employed in Israel and Trinidad and Tobago . From 1984 to 1993 he worked for ten years in the management of the Foreign Office , including as personal advisor to Hans-Dietrich Genscher , and finally from 1991 to 1993 as spokesman for the Foreign Office.

In 1993 Schumacher first became Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Namibia , before he was Deputy High Representative for the civilian implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement in Sarajevo from 1997 to 1999 . Under his leadership, the State Council of Ministers was established, the state symbols (anthem, flag) were created and, after long resistance from ethnic groups, the first passport law of Bosnia-Herzegovina was passed.

From 1999 to 2003 Schumacher was the representative of the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic to the United Nations in New York . He led the German UN Mission 2001/2002 as charge d'affaires . As negotiator for the final document of the so-called UN summit on children's rights by the heads of state and government (May 2002), he was responsible for the creation of a new, rights-oriented UNICEF action plan . From 2003 to 2007 he headed the German representation in Helsinki , from there he moved to Baghdad until August 2008 . He then became ambassador to Thailand .

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Individual evidence

  1. Note to Correspondents: Appointment of the Fifth Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group | United Nations Secretary-General. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
predecessor Office successor
Harald Ganns German ambassador to Namibia
1993–1997
Harald Nestroy
Dieter Kastrup Chargé d'affaires at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York
2001–2002
Gunter Pleuger
Cornelius Summer German ambassador to Finland
2003–2007
Wilfried Grolig
Martin Kobler German Ambassador to Iraq
2007–2008
Christof Weil
Christoph Brümmer German ambassador to Thailand
2008–2011
Rolf Peter Gottfried Schulze
Reinhard Schweppe Permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva
2011-2014
Joachim Rücker