Hellmut Hoffmann (diplomat)

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Hellmut Hoffmann with the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and the American Ambassador Alexander Arvizu on June 27, 2014 in Tirana

Hellmut Hoffmann (born June 19, 1951 in Heidenheim ) is a German diplomat who was Germany's permanent representative at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva from July 22, 2009 to August 2013 and Ambassador to Albania from 2013 to 2016 .

Life

Hellmut Hoffmann studied political science , history and English at the University of Heidelberg and at King's College London , as well as international relations at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC

After joining the Foreign Service in 1982, he worked in the United Nations Department of the Foreign Office (1984–1986), in the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the negotiations on balanced armed forces reductions (and in the negotiations on conventional armed forces in Europe), in the Political Department ( NATO , 1989) and in the Department for Disarmament and Arms Control (Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, 1989–1992) of the Federal Foreign Office .

From 1992 to 1996 he was permanent representative at the German embassy in Windhoek , Namibia . After working at the German Embassy in Zagreb and in the Political Department (Foreign Policy Russia ) of the Foreign Office, he worked from 1997 to 2000 in the Foreign Office's cultural department as deputy head of the Goethe-Institut , promoting the German language and German-speaking minorities abroad used.

From 2000 to 2005 he was deputy head of the political department at the German embassy in London . In 2005 he returned to the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin as head of the division for fundamental questions as well as nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in the department for disarmament and arms control.

After continuing education courses at the NATO Defense College in Rome and at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin , he became permanent representative at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva on July 22, 2009 .

From August 2013 to summer 2016, Hoffmann was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Albania . There he succeeded Carola Müller-Holtkemper , who in turn received her accreditation as an ambassador to Yemen .