Hans-Dieter Stell

Hans-Dieter Stell (born February 24, 1955 in Wuppertal ) is a German diplomat . From 2016 to 2020 he was the German ambassador to Cameroon .

Life

After graduating from high school , Hans-Dieter Stell did his alternative military service in the police enforcement service in the Federal Border Guard from 1973 to 1975 ; he then studied law in Freiburg and Geneva. After the first state examination in 1980, he studied political science and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Free University of Berlin until 1984 ; until 1986 the legal preparatory service at the Berlin Court of Appeal followed. During this time he earned his Magister Artium in Political Science at the LMU Munich in 1985 , and in 1986 he passed his second state examination in Berlin. Then he began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service , which he completed in 1987 with the career test.

He then worked in the cultural and economic department of the Foreign Office in Bonn until 1989 ; During this time he obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the LMU Munich with a dissertation on Machiavelli and Nietzsche - a structural comparison of their philosophy and politics .

After his first post abroad from 1989 to the end of 1991 as permanent representative of the Ambassador in Malawi , he was responsible for international tax and criminal law in the legal department of the Foreign Office until 1994. This was followed by a posting as Deputy Consul General in Istanbul . From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a deputy head of department in the legal department of the Foreign Office (this time responsible for international maritime law).

His subsequent assignments abroad led him first as head of the cultural department to the German Embassy in Tel Aviv until 2004 and then until 2007 as permanent representative of the Consul General in New York .

Until 2010, Stell was head of department for international cultural and media relations at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin, after which he headed the German embassy in Madagascar until March 2013 , and was also ambassador to Mauritius and the Union of Comoros.

From 2013 to 2016 he was head of the Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

From 2016 to 2020 he was the German ambassador in Yaoundé / Cameroon .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy Yaoundé ( Memento from October 27, 2019 in the Internet Archive )