Jens Plötner

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Jens Plötner (born September 29, 1967 in Eutin ) is a German diplomat and has been Political Director at the Foreign Office since April 2019 .

Life

Plötner (3rd from left) in 2016 at the side of then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a meeting with his American counterpart John Kerry

After graduating from high school , Plötner did his military service in the armed forces from 1987 to 1988 and then studied law at the University of Hamburg , the University of Bordeaux and the University of Paris until 1993 .

career

In 1994 he joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his training as an attaché in 1996, became Deputy Office Manager at the Minister of State in the Foreign Office. He then found employment in the Political Department of the Embassy in Israel from 1998 to 2002 , before he was spokesman for the Middle East and United Nations affairs in the Foreign Office until 2005 . After that he was first deputy spokesman for the Foreign Office and then from 2007 to 2008 deputy head of the ministerial office in the Foreign Office. Subsequently, he was the spokesman for the Federal Foreign Office until 2009.

From 2009 to 2012 Jens Plötner was ambassador to Sri Lanka , co-accredited for the Maldives , and was replaced in this post by Jürgen Morhard , who was previously the budgetary officer in the Federal Foreign Office. From June 2012 to 2014, Plötner was ambassador to Tunisia, successor to Horst-Wolfram Kerll , who had retired. From 2014 to 2017 he was head of the ministerial office in the Federal Foreign Office . Plötner was ambassador to Greece from July 2017 to March 2019.

In April 2019, Plötner was appointed Political Director of the Federal Foreign Office.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisa Hübel: New German Ambassador in Athens accredited. In: griechenland.net. Retrieved September 27, 2017 (German).
  2. ^ Hans Monath: Competition for the strong State Secretary in the Foreign Office. In: tagesspiegel.de. Accessed May 15, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Plötner, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin