Jörg Zimmermann (diplomat)

Jörg Zimmermann (* 1944 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a former German diplomat .

Life

After studying German and theology at the universities of Würzburg and Vienna , he worked as a DAAD lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Kumamoto in Japan. After joining the Foreign Service in 1976, he worked at the embassies in the People's Republic of China (economic advisor) and in the Philippines (press and cultural advisor ) as well as at the Foreign Office in Bonn (advisor in the department for Southeast Asia). In 1987 he became permanent representative of the Consul General in Osaka - Kobe . Subsequently, from 1990 to 1994 he was deputy head of the East Asia Department of the Foreign Office. In 1994 he became permanent representative of the Ambassador to Algeria . From 1995 to 1997 Jörg Zimmermann was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Canton (People's Republic of China), then from 1998 to 2001 head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Office of the Federal President . From 2001 to November 2005 Zimmermann was envoy and head of the political department at the German Embassy in Japan . Since 2002 he has also been the ambassador's permanent representative there. From 2005 until his retirement was a carpenter ambassador in Wellington ( New Zealand ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Erich Riedler	German Ambassador in Wellington 2005–2009	Thomas Meister