Hubert Ziegler (diplomat)

Hubert Ziegler (born September 3, 1948 in Schwerte ) is a German diplomat . He was Ambassador to Benin from 1993 to 1996 , Ambassador to Rwanda from 2004 to 2006 and Ambassador to Malta from 2011 to 2013 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1967, Ziegler served in the Federal Border Police until 1969 and then studied mathematics and physics until 1976 . After graduating as a qualified mathematician in 1974, he worked as a research assistant between 1975 and 1980 and during this time in 1976 he passed the scientific examination as the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools. In 1980 he completed his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. at the Technical University of Clausthal with a dissertation on the topic The Hausdorff distance for the subspaces of p-normalized linear spaces with an application to the algebra C (_W63) .

In 1981 he joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his career test for the higher civil service in 1983, was initially employed as a consultant at the Federal Foreign Office's training facility , before he was policy and protocol consultant at the embassy in Great Britain from 1984 to 1986 . He then worked as a science officer at the embassy in France and then from 1988 to 1991 head of the economic department at the embassy in Ethiopia .

After a subsequent assignment as a speaker for questions of nuclear non-proliferation in the Federal Foreign Office, he was Ambassador to Benin between 1993 and 1996 as the successor to Ulrich Hochschild . He then became head of division in the central department of the Federal Foreign Office, while Volker Seitz succeeded him as ambassador to Benin. Between 2001 and 2004 Ziegler was permanent representative of the Consul General in Montreal and then as successor to Hans-Dieter Steinbach until 2006 Ambassador to Rwanda .

In 2006 he returned to the Foreign Office as head of the conference department in the protocol staff, while Christian Clages succeeded him as ambassador to Rwanda. From 2010 to 2011 he was advisor to the Chief of Protocol in the Foreign Office .

From July 2011, Ziegler was the successor to Bernd Braun , who was retiring , as Ambassador to Malta .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubert Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Valletta ( Memento from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )