Hans Jochen Peters

Hans Jochen Peters (born February 24, 1944 in Wesselburen ; † October 9, 2008 in Zagreb ) was a German diplomat and from 2006 until his death in 2008 ambassador at the German embassy in Zagreb, Croatia .

Life

Hans Jochen Peters studied Slavic Studies , History , Political Science and Philosophy in Kiel and Tübingen . In 1970 he joined the Foreign Service and after his preparatory period worked as a consultant in the Foreign Office . From 1973 to 1975 he was press officer and head of the trade promotion office at the embassy in the Soviet Union . He then became deputy head of the foreign affairs department in the Federal Chancellery . Under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in 1979 he became his personal advisor and deputy head of the Chancellor's office.

From 1981 to 1984, Peters served as Deputy Ambassador to Uruguay . He then worked in the Foreign Office's planning team. In 1988 his work took him to the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein before he became head of division at NATO in Brussels in 1991 . He then returned to the Foreign Office for four years before taking up his first post as Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 . In 2003 he held another position as ambassador to Slovenia , before starting his service as ambassador in Zagreb in September 2006. Hans Jochen Peters died after a long illness.

Fonts

• NACC and the OSCE: A Contribution in the Context of the Concept of “Interlocking Institutions”. In: Bernard von Plate (ed.). Europe on the way to collective security? Conceptual and organizational developments of the security policy institution of Europe with John Barrett, Baden-Baden 1994. pp. 249–264.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Zagreb ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Sources and Notes

1. ^ Message on the website of the German Embassy in Zagreb ( Memento from October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )