Johann-Adolf Cohausz

Johann-Adolf Cohausz (born April 22, 1947 in Paderborn ) is a German diplomat , government spokesman and former state secretary . D. He has been working as a freelance consultant since 2012.

Life

Cohausz, son of Alfred Cohausz and Margarethe Cohausz, née Donders, graduated from high school Theodorianum in Paderborn .

From 1968/1969 he studied philology , history and Slavic languages. His interest in political upheaval stems from this time. His first major publication was for the workers 'and soldiers' councils in 1918/1919. In 1969 he switched to law studies and graduated in 1977. From 1977 to 1978 he was a research assistant and lecturer in public law at Bielefeld University. He continued his research at the European Commission on Human Rights from 1978 to 1980 in Strasbourg. He completed training as a telephone chaplain on a part-time and voluntary basis and also worked in this position for some time.

In 1980 he joined the Foreign Service. This was followed by positions abroad at the German representations in Cameroon, Atlanta, New York as spokesman for the permanent representation to the United Nations, Strasbourg and Buenos Aires. In Germany, from 1990 to 1992, he headed the office of the coordinator for transatlantic cooperation and from 1993 to 1998 switched to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and later to the CDU as head of the office for foreign relations .

He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Executive Committee of the Christian Democratic International (CDI). From 2001 to 2004 he represented German interests in Argentina as envoy . From 2004 to 2007 he was responsible for the European Economic Area (EEA), the Council of Europe (EuR) and bilateral relations with Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein in the Foreign Office . From 2007 to 2009 he was Consul General in Dubai . In 2009 he was appointed government spokesman for the Free State of Saxony and State Secretary in the State Chancellery in Dresden.

He has been retired since June 2012 and today advises entrepreneurs on fundamental political and economic issues. From 2011 to 2019 he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of Deutsche Welle (DW). He volunteered as a convention commissioner for the DRK district association in Dresden, as a member of the board of trustees of the Gottfried Silbermann Society in Freiberg and, until 2019, as chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr (MHM) in Dresden.

Web links

• Change of government spokesman in Saxony: Zimmermann hands over to Cohausz , Medienservice Sachsen, October 16, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The November Revolution 1918/19 in Paderborn and the Catholic Council thinking, Westfälische Zeitschrift 126/127, 1976/77, pp. 387–438.