Markus Potzel

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Markus Potzel (* 1965 ) is a German diplomat who was the German ambassador to Afghanistan from August 2014 to August 2016 . His successor in office was Walter Haßmann .

Life

After completing his studies, Potzel began his training for the higher service at the Foreign Service Academy in Bonn in 1993 and, after graduating in 1995, initially became a consultant in the Political Department of the Foreign Office and then between 1997 and 2000 cultural consultant at the embassy in Singapore . He then worked from 2000 to 2004 as an economic consultant at the embassy in Iran and from 2004 to 2005 as a consultant in the parliamentary and cabinet department of the Foreign Office in Berlin , before he was personal assistant to Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier from 2006 to 2009 .

In 2010 Potzel worked as a visiting scholar at the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP) in Berlin, where he studied the relationship between Iran and Afghanistan. During this time, in 2010, he also published the book Iran and the West: Chances for Joint Action in Afghanistan? , in which he dealt among other things with the alliance of the Peshawar Seven . From 2010 to 2014 he then headed the Middle East Department in the Federal Foreign Office.

In August 2014, Potzel succeeded Martin Jäger as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Afghanistan .

Since September 2017 he has been the Federal Government's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He is married to the diplomat Deike Potzel .

publication

  • Iran and the West: Chances for Joint Action in Afghanistan? , Science and Politics Foundation, Berlin 2010.

Web links

  • Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy in Kabul. Archived from the original on December 20, 2015 ; Retrieved December 4, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Foreign Relations eV: Afghanistan - Generations between Flight and Reconstruction. In: www.ifa.de. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016 ; Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ German Embassy Kabul - Ambassador and departments of the embassy. In: www.afghanistan.diplo.de. Archived from the original on November 17, 2016 ; Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
  3. ^ The Federal Government's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Federal Foreign Office, accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Derek Scally: 'A permanent state of schizophrenia': growing up in East Germany , irishtimes.com, November 4, 2019, accessed on November 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Potzel, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1965