Hans-Joachim Goetz
Hans-Joachim Goetz (* 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German diplomat who was last ambassador to Slovenia from 2006 to 2009 .
Life
After graduating from high school , Goetz studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin and graduated with the first and second state exams. Afterwards he worked for some time as a research assistant at the chair for foreign and international private law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
In 1973 he joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany and, after completing the career examination for the higher service, was initially consul in Liverpool from 1974 to 1977 , before he was then a consultant in the Department of International Law of the Foreign Office until 1981 . During this time he joined in 1980 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and his promotion to Dr. jur. with a dissertation on the subject of the transition from the principle of guilt to the principle of disruption in English divorce law.
After Goetz was permanent representative of the ambassador to Bangladesh from 1981 to 1984 , he became a consultant in the economic department of the embassy in Italy and then from 1988 to 1993 a consultant in the legal department of the Foreign Office. He then became head of the economic department of the embassy in Poland , before working as a special inspector at the Foreign Office from 1997 to 1999. After he was head of a department for human resources in the Foreign Office between 1999 and 2002 , he became envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador to the Holy See in 2002 .
On September 19, 2006, Goetz received his accreditation as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Slovenia as the successor to Hans Jochen Peters , who in turn became ambassador to Croatia . He remained in this position until his retirement in 2009 and his subsequent replacement by Matthias von Kummer .
Honors
- 2008: Commander in Chief of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German Embassy Ljubljana ( memento from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goetz, Hans-Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |