Hans-Dieter Lucas

Hans-Dieter Lucas (born October 11, 1959 ) is a German diplomat who has been Germany's permanent representative to NATO in Brussels since 2015 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978, Lucas began studying history, political science, law and Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and in Paris and graduated in 1984. In 1985 he began his training for the higher service at the training and further education center of the Federal Foreign Office . After completing this training with a career examination, he was initially a consultant in the Political Department of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1987 and 1989 and then from 1989 to 1991 in the Economic Department of the Embassy in Moscow . In 1990 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a dissertation entitled Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals? European politics and thinking in France of the de Gaulle era (1958-1969) . After his return, he worked between 1991 and 1995 as a consultant in the Baltic States section of the Political Department of the Foreign Office and then headed the personal office of the former Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher from 1995 to 1998 , before becoming head of the Speechwriting staff of the former Federal Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel was.

In 1999, Lucas moved to the US embassy as head of the press department and worked there until 2003. He then worked between 2003 and 2006 as Head of Division for Central, Southeastern, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia in the Foreign and Security Policy Department in the Federal Chancellery, and from 2006 to 2010 as Representative for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia with the rank of Ambassador in the Foreign Office. After serving as ambassador for the Federal Republic of Germany in the Political and Security Committee of the European Union (EU) in Brussels between 2010 and 2011 , he served as Political Director at the Foreign Office in Berlin from 2011 to 2015. In this role he was u. a. German negotiator in the multi-year negotiations between the EU3 + 3 (China, Germany, France, Russia, USA, the United Kingdom and the European Union) and Iran. The negotiations led to the conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on July 14, 2015.

In July 2015, Lucas succeeded Martin Erdmann as Permanent Representative of Germany to NATO in Brussels.

Lucas, who is married and has a son, received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015 and the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic in 2016 .

Publications

• Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals? : European politics and European thinking in France of the de Gaulle era (1958-1969) , dissertation University of Bonn, Bouvier Verlag 1992, ISBN 978-3-416-02400-6
• Genscher, Germany and Europe , Nomos Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-3-7890-7816-3
• The world out of joint - Value-bound security policy in the 21st century , in: Rutz, Michael (Ed.), Endangered World - Insights and Outs, Herder Verlag, 2018, pp. 27-49 978-3451399862

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Permanent Mission to NATO (access on 23 May 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Braun: How important Germany was for the negotiations. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .