Lutz Goergens

Lutz Hermann Görgens (born September 10, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) is a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school , Görgens studied literature and history at the Universities of Cologne, Zurich, Paris and Tübingen; in October 1976 he became lecturer for German language at the University of Bradford in Great Britain for the DAAD .

In April 1978, he joined the Foreign Service , and found after completion of the career examination for the higher service initially from May 1980 to June 1982 used as legation secretary and press and cultural affairs at the embassy in Algeria and then as Counselor for Economic Affairs at the Embassy in Tunisia. After his return, from May 1985 to September 1987 he was a country officer in the department for the Maghreb and the Middle East at the Foreign Office in Bonn . 1985 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the subject of the conductor's pets, investigation of the fantastic in ETA Hoffmann's literary work ; In it he dealt in particular with the fragmentary satirical novel Life Views of the cat Murr .

He then became First Class Counselor and Head of Economic Services at the Mexican Embassy in September 1987 and a Fellow at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in September 1989 , before becoming Counselor and Deputy Observer at the between May 1990 and November 1993 Organization of American States (OAS) at the embassy in the USA .

In November 1993 Görgens became deputy head of division in the Foreign Office and observer at the European Parliament and then in May 1997 permanent representative of the Consul General in Boston . After a subsequent activity from August 2001 to July 2004 head of the economic service at the embassy in Turkey , he was head of unit for the EU internal market at the Foreign Office in Berlin and from July 2006 to July 2007 permanent representative of the consul general in Atlanta.

In July 2007 he became Consul General in Atlanta and represented the Federal Republic of Germany in the southeastern United States until August 2012. The administrative district of the Consulate General includes the states of Alabama , Georgia , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina, and Tennessee . From 2010 to 2012 he was also doyen of the Consular Corps in Atlanta . From September 2012 to August 2014 he was economic envoy at the embassy in Tokyo (Japan). In 2014 Lutz Görgens became German ambassador to 10 Caribbean countries ( Antigua and Barbuda , Barbados , Dominica , Grenada , Guyana , St. Lucia , St. Kitts and Nevis , St. Vincent and Grenadines , Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago ) as well as to the Caribbean regional organizations CARICOM and OECS based in Port of Spain (Trinidad). Since 2016, he has also served as chair of the steering committee of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative until he retired in 2017.

Publications

• The Kapellmeister's pets, investigation of the fantastic in ETA Hoffmann's literary work , dissertation, Tübingen 1985

Web links

• CV on the homepage of the embassy in Port-of-Spain