Hansjörg Eiff
Hansjörg Eiff (born March 21, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 10, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and former German ambassador .
Life
Eiff studied law in Tübingen , Bonn , Aix-en-Provence and Turin . Since 1953 he was a member of the student union AV Igel Tübingen . In 1959 he received his doctorate in Tübingen. iur. In 1961 he passed the second state examination in law and joined the foreign service . From 1963 until his retirement in 1998, Eiff worked at the German diplomatic missions in Boston , Abidjan , Tel Aviv , Belgrade , Washington and Vienna . He also held various positions in theForeign Office in Bonn .
In his career he was permanent representative of the ambassador in Belgrade between 1973 and 1976, from 1988 to 1992 he was the German ambassador in Belgrade and thus the last German ambassador before the dissolution of Yugoslavia . From 1994 and 1995 he was head of an OSCE mission in Georgia and from 1995 and 1998 head of the German mission to the OSCE in Vienna. After retiring, Eiff was head of a "Technical Assessment Mission" in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on behalf of the OSCE Chairman in 1998 , and from 1999 to 2001 Senior Civilian Representative of NATO in Macedonia .
Eiff spoke several languages, including Serbo-Croatian , was married and had three grown children. He last lived in Bonn.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who is who? The German who's who . 36th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1997, p. 297.
- ↑ Obituary in the FAZ of September 21, 2019, p. 15.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eiff, Hansjörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin |