Martin Hanz

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Martin Hanz (born April 30, 1955 in Montabaur ) is a German diplomat and since July 2017 Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris. Before that, he was Ambassador to Estonia from 2009 to 2011 and Deputy Ambassador to the German Embassy in New Delhi / India from 2014 to 2016 .

biography

After High School in 1973 and completing his military service in the army , he studied from 1975 to 1979 law and put 1979 his first legal state exam from. After his legal preparatory service , which lasted from 1980 to 1983 , he passed the second state examination in 1983. In 1984 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD.

In 1983 he entered the diplomatic service and after completing his training as an attaché in 1985, he was employed at the headquarters of the Foreign Office and then from 1986 to 1989 at the embassy in Japan . After a subsequent activity in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn , he worked at the permanent representation to the European Union (EU) in Brussels from 1993 to 1995 .

In the context of leave of absence, he was then employed in the cabinet of the President of the European Commission Jacques Santer and from 1999 to 2001 as Deputy Cabinet Head of the President of the European Parliament Nicole Fontaine .

He then became Head of Division at the Foreign Office in Berlin and, between 2006 and 2009, Head of the Political Department of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City .

From 2009 to 2011 Martin Hanz was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Estonia. From 2011 to 2014 he was an inspector at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin, then went to India in 2014 as the German ambassador's deputy. Since July 2017 he has been Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris.

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predecessor Office successor
Julius Bobinger Ambassador to Estonia
2009–2011
Christian Matthias Schlaga