Helga Schmid

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Helga Maria Schmid (born December 8, 1960 ) is a German diplomat . She has been Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) since September 2016 .

Study and training

After studying Romance languages, literature, history and politics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1980–1987) ( Magister Artium ), she studied international and European law, economics and international relations (1988–1990 ) at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna ).

Career and foreign policy role

In 1990 she joined the foreign service . In the following years she worked as press spokeswoman for the German Embassy in Washington, DC . From 1994 to 1998 Schmid worked as a political advisor to Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel . She held the same position from 1998 to 2000 at Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer .

Between 2000 and 2005, he held various management positions at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin . Among them from 2003 to 2005 Head of the Policy Unit and Head of the Minister's Office, until in 2006, Director of the Policy Unit (Policy Unit) of the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana , the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. She held this position until 2010.

Helga Schmid 2017 in Tallinn

After founding the European External Action Service , Schmid became Deputy Secretary General for political issues in 2010. In this role she was involved in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program . Your task was to negotiate with Abbas Araghchi (Vice for Foreign Policy and International Security of the Secretary General of the High Council for National Security of Iran) and thus to continue the talks at the next higher level, which were initially held at the technical level.

In the course of diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the crisis in Ukraine , critical, apparently intercepted statements by Schmid about US politics became known in early February 2014, when the diplomat Victoria Nuland hit the headlines because of the interrogated statement "Fuck the EU". "The Americans go around a bit and say that we are too soft, while they are stronger and go on sanctions," Schmid said to Jan Tombinski, the EU ambassador in Kiev . The American approach is "really very unfair."

In the negotiations on the EU-3 nuclear agreement with Iran , which were successfully concluded in 2015, Schmid, as the main author of the 100-page contract, was the one who negotiated the exact wording of the text step by step with today's President Rouhani was the Iranian chief negotiator in the nuclear dispute at the time.

In September 2016, Helga Schmid succeeded Alain Le Roy as Secretary General of the EEAS.

Awards

In 2009 Helga Schmid received the medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe . In November 2015, Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, and in January 2017 she received the Manfred Wörner Medal .

Quotes

"Women are better negotiators."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federica Mogherini appoints Helga Schmid as Secretary General of the European External Action Service. eeas.europa.eu, June 15, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Iran, P5 + 1 expert level talks in Istanbul. (No longer available online.) Presstv.ir, July 6, 2012, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; Retrieved July 8, 2012 .
  3. ↑ USA accuse Russia of having launched a recording . Article dated February 7, 2014 in the handelsblatt.com portal (not accessible), accessed on February 8, 2014
  4. ↑ Recording of the conversation on Youtube, listened to on April 12, 2015
  5. ↑ Ralph Sina: "Axis Tehran - Brussels: EU most important Rouhani partner." Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Studio 9, January 3, 2018, 6:10, 3:30 minutes
  6. ↑ Speech by Foreign Minister Steinmeier on the occasion of the award of the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class to Helga Schmid and Dr. Hans-Dieter Lucas. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Hans Monath: "Women are the better negotiators" . On November 5, 2010 at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on July 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Helga Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1960