Klaus Neubert (diplomat)

Klaus Neubert (born June 23, 1942 in Dresden ) is a German diplomat ; he was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Italy and France .

Life

After attending the German School in Rome and the Baccalauréat (Abitur) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye / Paris , he studied law at the universities of Bonn and Cologne. He later earned a Master of Arts (MA) degree from the Fletcher School in Boston.

After joining the Foreign Service in 1967, he was employed at the embassy in what was then South Vietnam , in the Foreign Office in Bonn (press department) and at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York .

From 1979 to 1983 he was press officer at the embassy in Italy and then deputy head of the Conventional Arms Control Unit at the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn.

In 1986 Klaus Neubert became head of the political department at the embassy in what was then the Soviet Union , before he was head of the Soviet Union (later Eastern Europe) department at the Bonn Foreign Office from 1989 to 1995.

From 1995 to 1999 he was initially employed as head of the Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe subdivision in the Foreign Office, before becoming ambassador and commissioner of the federal government for questions of disarmament and arms control in June 1999 . As such, from March to September 2000 he was German representative in the Political and Security Policy Interim Committee of the European Union .

From July 2001 to June 2004 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Italy . Ambassador Michael Gerdts was his successor there . He then was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in France from 2004 to 2007 .

Web links

• Homepage of the German Embassy in Paris