Heike Renate Peitsch

Heike Renate Peitsch (born February 8, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German diplomat. From 2016 to 2018 she was ambassador to Georgia .

Life

After graduating from high school , Heike Peitsch began studying economics at the University of Cologne , which she completed in 1987 with a diploma. In 1991 she did her doctorate at the University of Cologne on the subject of cooperation between East and West in the environmental field .

career

In 1988, she joined the Foreign Service and, after completing her attaché training and the career examination for the higher service in 1990, she was initially employed at the headquarters of the Foreign Office before she was permanent representative of the Ambassador in Burundi between 1991 and 1994 . After further work in the Foreign Office and at the embassy in Israel , Peitsch became deputy head of a department in the Department for Global Issues at the Foreign Office in 2000 .

From 2004 to 2007 she was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Armenia , based in Yerevan . Her successor in Yerevan was Andrea Joana-Maria Viktorin . From 2007 to 2010 Peitsch was in the Foreign Office in Berlin. From 2010 to 2013 she was head of the department for economics and science at the German embassy in Moscow . From 2013 to 2016 she was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in St. Petersburg . In 2016 she took over the management of the German embassy in Tbilisi, and in 2018 she returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin.

Publications

• Cooperation between East and West in the environmental sector , inaugural dissertation at the University of Cologne, 1991

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Armenia ( memo from December 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )