Jürgen Staks

Jürgen AR Staks (born October 9, 1941 in Konitz , West Prussia ) is a former German diplomat .

Life

After training as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr , where he had the rank of Colonel d. R., followed by studying law at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and studying at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . To finance his studies he worked a. a. as a Junior Travel Agent at Lufthansa in the USA and Turkey. After joining the Foreign Service in 1972, he worked at the embassies in Poland and Libya (economic advisor). During the time in Libya in April and May 1974 there was a special operation at the German Embassy in Chad as a member of a special negotiating team to free German hostages from the violence of the Chadian Rebel Forces in the Central Sahara. Later assignments followed at the German Consulate General in Atlanta (consul) and in the department for "East and South Africa" ​​at the Foreign Office in Bonn. From 1983 to 1984 Staks was the Ambassador's Permanent Representative to Cuba . After that he was a member of the executive staff of the then Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher as a lecturer in the Legation Council and deputy head of Division 011 (Parliament and Cabinet Division) . From May to June 1988 he was a “ trainee ” in the private office of the then Secretary General of NATO, Lord Carrington . Subsequently he was head of the staff of his successor as NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner until 1989 . After a brief assignment in 1989 as permanent representative of the ambassador to Peru , he was head of the political department at the German embassy in the People's Republic of China from 1989 to 1992 . From May 1992 to November 2000 Jürgen Staks was Head of Section 310 (Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific) in the Foreign Office and then, as a lecturer in the first class, from November 2000 to February 2001, Head of Section 311 (Regional Organizations in Asia ( ASEAN , ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEM and APEC )) of the Federal Foreign Office. After that, Staks was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ) until 2004 . He then headed the German Embassy in Zagreb ( Croatia ) until his retirement in 2006 .

Other activities

In November 1994 Jürgen Staks was visiting scholar at the Research School of Pacific and Asia Studies at Australia National University in Canberra. Jürgen Staks was a member of the board of the German Society for Asian Studies until February 2001. V. Hamburg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Society for Asian Studies: Activity report for the years 2001 to 2002 ( Memento from September 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 174 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Norbert Heinrich Holl	German ambassador in Kuala Lumpur until 2004	Herbert Jess
Horst Weisel	German ambassador in Zagreb 2004–2006	Hans Jochen Peters