Hansjörg Haber

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Hansjörg Haber (born February 21, 1953 in Munich ) is a German diplomat . From 2015 to 2016 he was Head of the Delegation of the European Union in Turkey and from 2017 to October 2018 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Yemen .

Life

After graduating from Atlantic College in Wales, he studied economics at the University of Munich , where he also worked as a research assistant, before joining the Foreign Service . Hansjörg Haber is married to the diplomat Emily Haber , with whom he has two children.

career

After working in Paris , Moscow , Manila and Ankara , from 2002 to 2006 he was Head of Unit for Fundamental Issues of the United Nations in the Foreign Office and therefore responsible for the strategic planning and development of the German position on UN peace missions and the role of the UN in regional conflicts. Then he was the German ambassador in Beirut. From September 16, 2008 to the end of April 2011, Hansjörg Haber was head of the EU observer mission in Georgia. In the course of this activity, Hansjörg Haber was monitored by his own German intelligence services, independently by the BND and without the permission of the G-10 Commission , which was revealed in the course of the BND affair in 2015.

On March 28, 2011, Haber was appointed Head of the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC) in the European External Action Service by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton . Haber was the German ambassador in Cairo from 2014 to 2015. He was then appointed as the successor to Stefano Manservisi as Head of the Delegation of the European Union, colloquially as the EU Ambassador to Turkey. He resigned from this post on June 14, 2016.

From January 11, 2017, Haber was ad interim head of the German Embassy in Prague . In September 2017 he was accredited as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sanaa , where he worked until 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansjörg Haber. ( Memento of January 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Curriculum vitae on the website of the European Council (PDF; 38 kB).
  2. ↑ Majid Sattar: Emily Haber: Small revolution on the Werderschen market. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 28, 2011, archived from the original on July 15, 2011 ; accessed on June 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hansjörg Haber, top diplomat for difficult cases. Welt Online , September 19, 2008.
  4. ^ Federal Minister Steinmeier on the appointment of Hansjörg Haber as head of the European observer mission in Georgia. September 18, 2008, archived from the original on September 19, 2008 ; accessed on June 15, 2016 . German ambassador Haber is head of the EU observer mission in Georgia Read more: http://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20080917/116895571.html#ixzz4BloNHehd. September 22, 2008, accessed June 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ wiretapping among friends - BND spied on German EU diplomats. AFP article on faz.net , November 11, 2015, accessed February 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ EU HR Catherine Ashton Appoints Ambassador Hansjoerg Haber as EU Civilian Operations Commander. European Union, March 30, 2011, accessed June 15, 2016 . EU HR Catherine Ashton's press release: High Representative Catherine Ashton makes three senior appointments in European External Action Service. (PDF; 96 kB) European Union, March 28, 2011, accessed on June 15, 2016 (English).
  7. ↑ High Representative Catherine Ashton appoints new Head of EU Delegation to Turkey. (pdf) Press release of the European External Action Service (EEAS), February 24, 2014, accessed on June 15, 2016 (English).
  8. ^ High Representative Federica Mogherini announces senior appointments. Press release of the European External Action Service (EEAS), August 31, 2015, accessed on June 15, 2016 .
  9. ^ Hansjörg Haber: German EU Ambassador to Turkey resigns . Die Welt , June 14, 2016, accessed the same day.
  10. ↑ spiegel.de: This is behind the ambassador's resignation
  11. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy Sanaa ( Memento from March 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Marius Haas German ambassador to Lebanon
2005–2007 		Birgitta Maria Siefker-Eberle
Michael Bock German Ambassador to Egypt
2014–2015 		Julius Georg Luy
Stefano Manservisi Head of the European Union Delegation in Turkey
2015-2016 		Christian Berger
Arndt Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven German Ambassador to the Czech Republic
2017 		Christoph Israng
Andreas Kindl German Ambassador for Yemen
2017–2018 		Carola Müller-Holtkemper
personal data
SURNAME Haber, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, head of the European Union delegation in Turkey
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich