Heinz Wilhelm
Heinz Wilhelm (born July 4, 1950 in Munich ) is a German diplomat who was last ambassador to Serbia from 2012 to 2015 .
Life
After graduating from high school, Heinz Wilhelm studied law in Munich and Lausanne from 1970 to 1977 . He passed the second state examination in law in 1980, after which he was academic advisor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
After a preparatory service for the senior foreign service from 1982 to 1984, his first assignment abroad took him to the German embassy in Saudi Arabia , where he worked from 1984 to 1986. His next assignment took him to the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations from 1987 to 1990 . After three years in the Foreign Office, he was permanent representative at the embassy in Senegal from 1993 to 1996 . From 2001 to 2004 Heinz Wilhelm worked in the economic department of the embassy in London , from 2004 to 2006 he was head of the branch office of the German embassy in Nigeria in Lagos . From 2006 to 2009 he was appointed to the Political Department of the Embassy in Paris , after which he was Head of Division in the Legal Department of the Foreign Office until 2012.
In summer 2012 he succeeded Wolfram Maas , who in turn became ambassador to Belarus , ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Serbia and held this ambassadorial post until he retired in 2015. His successor was then Axel Dittmann in July 2015 .
Political positions
In 2014 Wilhelm took part in the controversial Pride Parade in Belgrade, along with around a thousand other demonstrators, to demonstrate for homosexual rights.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homosexual parade under police protection Belgrade allows "Pride Parade" ( Memento from September 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Tagesschau from September 28, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wilhelm, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |