Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth

Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth (* 1953 in Masuri , Uttarakhand , India ) is a German diplomat . He was u. a. between 2008 and 2012 Ambassador to Ukraine and most recently from 2016 to 2019 Ambassador to Sweden .

Life

The son of the diplomat and later ambassador Harald Heimsoeth attended schools in New York City , Jakarta , Bandung and Belgium while his father was abroad from 1960 to 1971 and passed his Abitur in 1971 in Brussels . He then studied history , philosophy and German at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and graduated in 1977 with the state examination. This was followed by further studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP de Paris), which he completed in 1979 with a diploma .

In 1981 he joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his attaché training in 1983, initially worked as an employee in the Department for the Soviet Union in the Foreign Office in Bonn and then from 1984 to 1987 in the Political Department of the Embassy in the Soviet Union. During this, he also received his doctorate in 1987 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with a dissertation on The Collapse of the Third French Republic. France during the "drôle de guerre" 1939/1940 .

This was followed by a position as permanent representative of the ambassador to Somalia from 1987 to 1989, before he was personal advisor to Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker between 1989 and 1994 . After a subsequent employment as head of the economic department of the embassy in Brazil , Heimsoeth was from 1997 to 2000 head of the political department of the embassy in Poland and then Baltic Sea Commissioner in the Foreign Office and at the same time chairman of the committee of senior officials of the Baltic Sea Council .

Between 2001 and 2004 he was Head of the Department for Central and Eastern Europe , the Baltic States , Norway , Iceland and the Baltic Sea States in the Political Department of the Foreign Ministry and then to 2005 Head of the Department for Central Europe , the Benelux countries, and will cross-border cooperation in the Europe Department of the Federal Foreign Office before he was Consul General in New York City from 2005 to 2008 .

From 2008 to 2012 Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Ukraine and was then replaced in this post by Christof Weil , who was previously Ambassador to Belarus .

From 2012 to 2015 Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth was Head of the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris.

In 2016 he moved to Sweden as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany , where he stayed until July 2019.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Stockholm ( memento from June 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Reinhard Schäfers	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kiev 2008–2012	Christof Weil
Johannes Westerhoff	Permanent representative of Germany to the OECD 2012–2016	Anna Elisabeth Prince
Michael Bock	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Stockholm 2016–2019	Matei Hoffmann