Heinz Peters (diplomat)

Heinz Peters (born March 16, 1951 in Niedermarsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German diplomat who was consul general in Krakow from 2009 to 2012 and ambassador to Uruguay from August 2012 to August 2016 .

Life

After high school at Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Köln 1969 studied Peters at the University of Cologne and placed there in 1982 his doctorate Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the topic The Paraguayan Education System from 1811 to 1865: School and State in a Model of Auto-Centered Development .

In 1982 he joined the Foreign Service and, after passing the career test for the higher service in 1984, was first employed as a speaker in the Department for Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control at the Foreign Office in Bonn and then between 1986 and 1989 as a member of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany the disarmament conference in Geneva . In January 1989 he became head of the press department of the embassy in Brazil and then in January 1992 he was a consultant in the parliamentary and cabinet department of the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn, before he was head of the cultural department of the embassy in Argentina from May 1994 to August 1997 .

In August 1997 Peters became head of the work unit “Cooperation with Political Foundations” in the Foreign Office and then in August 2001 deputy head of the economic department of the embassy in France , before he was head of the cultural department of the embassy in Poland between July 2004 and July 2007 Was responsible for the “German-Polish Year”. Then he was head of division in Department 6 “Culture and Communication” of the Foreign Office in Berlin .

Since July 1, 2009, Peters was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cracow and in August 2012 he succeeded Karl-Otto König as Ambassador to Uruguay , while Werner Köhler succeeded him as Consul General in Cracow.

Publications

• The Paraguayan Education System from 1811 to 1865: School and State in a Model of Auto-Centered Development , 1984, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8204-7210-X

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Montevideo (accessed on September 9, 2012)
• Consulate General Krakow (history of the official seat)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Embajada de Alemania Montevideo - Saludo del Embajador. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 30, 2017 ; Retrieved January 30, 2017 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.