Holger Michael

Holger Wilfried Michael (* 1954 ) is a German diplomat . He was most recently Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from 2017 to 2019 . Before that he was Ambassador to Bangladesh from 2009 to 2012 and Ambassador to Malaysia from 2013 to 2017 .

biography

After graduating from high school , he studied business administration from 1972 to 1977 and graduated with a degree in business administration . He then completed postgraduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges and then from 1978 to 1979 an internship at the EU Commission in Brussels .

In 1979 he joined the diplomatic service and, after completing his preparatory service, worked from 1981 to 1982, initially at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and then until 1985 at the embassy in Turkey . Afterwards he was appointed permanent representative of the ambassador to Nicaragua . Between 1988 and 1991 he was again an employee at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, before being employed as head of the economics department at the embassy in South Korea until 1994 .

He then became Deputy Head of Section for Foreign Trade Promotion at the Federal Foreign Office and then from 1997 to 2002 Permanent Representative of the Consul General in Hong Kong . In 2002 he was appointed permanent representative of the ambassador in Thailand and, from 2006 to 2009, head of department for fundamental issues of foreign trade promotion in the Federal Foreign Ministry.

From August 2009 to 2012, Holger Michael succeeded Frank Meyke as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bangladesh . From 2012 to 2013 Michael spent a year as a fellow at Harvard University in Boston before 2013 ambassador to Malaysia from Guenter Gruber took over. He held this office until 2017 and then moved to Trinidad and Tobago as ambassador , where he stayed until 2019.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy Port-of-Spain ( Memento from November 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive )