Johannes Westerhoff

Johannes E. Westerhoff (* 1947 in Wietzen ) is a retired German diplomat . From 2008 to 2012 he was the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris . Westerhoff is married and has four children.

Westerhoff studied law and history at the universities of Heidelberg, Geneva, Munich and Berkeley and received his doctorate in Munich with a thesis on trademark law. In 1976 Westerhoff entered the foreign service .

After working in European politics in the political department and short-term assignments in London, Copenhagen and Paris in connection with the German EC presidency in 1978, the first foreign station from 1979 was the embassy in Jakarta in Indonesia . This was followed by assignments in the international law department, at the German embassy in Dakar in Senegal as permanent representative, at the embassy in Paris in the political department and later as head of the press and information department.

In 1994 Westerhoff was appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Nouakchott in Mauritania and was then head of the department in the human resources department of the Foreign Office. From 2003 to July 2005 Westerhoff was deputy representative for Franco-German cooperation, from 2005 to 2008 the German ambassador in Algiers in Algeria . From December 2008 to 2012 he was Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris.

Publications

The relative protection requirements of the trademark - comparative legal considerations on the reform of the German trademark law. (Dissertation), Heymann, Munich, 1976

Web links

Curriculum vitae on the website of the Permanent Representation of Germany to the OECD ( Memento from November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Photo by Johannes Westerhoff on the website of the OECD ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Westerhoff, Johannes .: The relative protection requirements of the trademark: comparative law considerations for the reform of the d. German trademark law . Heymann, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-452-18026-3 (Zugl .: München, Univ., 03 - Jur. Department, Diss., 1976.).

personal data
SURNAME	Westerhoff, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Westerhoff, Johannes E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wietzen , Lower Saxony

[1] Westerhoff, Johannes .: The relative protection requirements of the trademark: comparative law considerations for the reform of the d. German trademark law . Heymann, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-452-18026-3 (Zugl .: München, Univ., 03 - Jur. Department, Diss., 1976.).