Joseph Weiß (diplomat)

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Joseph Weiß (* 1959 in Freising ) is a German diplomat . He was ambassador to Niger , Burundi and Togo .

Life

After graduating from high school , between 1979 and 1989 he studied law and legal philosophy at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the University of Geneva and the University of Salamanca , graduating in 1989 with the second state examination in law.

He then joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his career examination, was employed in the legal and consular department of the Embassy in Croatia from 1991 to 1993 . After a subsequent position in the Political Department of the Embassy in Great Britain , he worked in the Political Department of the Foreign Office between 1996 and 1999 .

He then became a member of the Political Section at the Embassy in Japan before moving to the reopening of the embassy in Niamey 2002-2004 Ambassador to Niger was. Between 2004 and 2008 he was again an employee of the Political Department of the Foreign Office in Berlin and then from 2008 to 2011 Ambassador to Burundi after the embassy in Bujumbura was reopened.

From 2011 to 2014 Joseph Weiß was ambassador to Togo . In 2015 he sponsored a memorial plaque for Brigitte Reimann in Burg . In 2017 he worked as a corruption officer for the Federal Foreign Office.

He has been the permanent representative of the embassy in Cuba since 2017 .

Awards

  • 2014: Order of Togo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dtoday.de: Foreign Office rejects representation
  2. ↑ lome.diplo.de: Advertising for the Togolese golf sport  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lome.diplo.de  
  3. ↑ volksstimme.de: Memorial plaque for Brigitte Reimann
  4. ↑ myscience.de: Guest lecture on a career in the diplomatic service: Ex-Ambassador Joseph Weiß ...
  5. ↑ ahk.de: "Instruments of German Foreign Trade Promotion in Cuba"
  6. ↑ lome.diplo.de: German ambassador receives high Togolese order  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lome.diplo.de  
personal data
SURNAME White, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising