Klaus Achenbach (diplomat)

Klaus Achenbach (born September 22, 1945 in Bonn ) is a former German diplomat and was last from August 2007 to July 2010 Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Vancouver , Canada .

Life

Achenbach, son of the FDP -Politikers Ernst Achenbach , studied after high school in 1965 and the obligations of military service in the Armed Forces from 1967 to 1975 Physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and graduated in 1975 with the academic degree "Physicist “From.

After joining the Foreign Service in 1976, he was employed at the Foreign Office in Bonn from 1978 to 1980 and at the embassy in Norway until 1983 . After a subsequent assignment as a member of the German delegation at the CSCE follow-up conference in Madrid in 1983 , he returned to the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1983 and 1987.

From 1987 to 1991 he was permanent representative of the ambassador to Syria and then until 1996 deputy head of a department in the Foreign Office. From 1996 to 2001 he was then Permanent Representative of the Head of the Permanent Mission to the Geneva Disarmament Conference and from 2001 to July 2004 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Kyrgyzstan . Ambassador Klaus Werner Grewlich was succeeded in this office .

Achenbach was then Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Kuwait between July 2004 and August 2007 and, most recently, Consul General in Vancouver from August 2007 to July 2010. He was then retired and replaced as Consul General by Hermann Sitz .

Klaus Achenbach is married and has two children.

Web links

• Homepage of the Consulate General Vancouver ( Memento from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )