Karl Heinz Kuhna

Karl Heinz Albert Kuhna (born August 29, 1937 in Bad Warmbrunn ) is a German lawyer , diplomat and ambassador a. D.

Life

Karl Heinz Kuhna studied law from 1956 to 1959 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , Humboldt University in Berlin and the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1965 he received his doctorate on French competition law in Münster .

In 1966 Kuhna joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany. There he was deployed in diplomatic missions in London , Calcutta and Lagos as well as in the Foreign Office .

Karl Heinz Kuhna was the first German ambassador to Tashkent , Uzbekistan , from May 1992 to October 1995 .

From 1999 to 2002 Karl Heinz Kuhna was the German ambassador in Athens , Greece . In an attack of extreme left-wing terrorist group November 17 at the residence of the German Ambassador with a bazooka on May 16, 1999 as to the building in an Athens suburb Although considerable material damage, but the appointed just two weeks ago Ambassador and his wife, Marie-Agnes from resentment remained unharmed. During his tenure in Athens, Kuhna had to do with the problem of the Greek National Socialist compensation issue and the seizure of the Goethe Institute in Athens and the threatened seizure of the German Archaeological Institute and the German School.

After leaving the diplomatic service on September 1, 2002, Kuhna is the partner of Prof. George I. Kasimatis' law firm in Athens / Munich. From 2004 to the end of 2006 he was managing director of Egnatia Insurance Co. SA.

Kuhna has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV since 1956 .

Web links

• Biography of Karl Heinz Kuhna (engl.)

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1. ↑ [1] , Spiegel Online (May 17, 1999)
2. ↑ In close contact with the bailiff ( Friday 9th - 6th October 2000)