Matei Hoffmann

Matei Ion Hoffmann (born October 19, 1951 in Bucharest , Romania ) is a former German diplomat . Among other things, he was Ambassador to Bogotá , Colombia from 2002 to 2005 , Permanent Representative of Germany to the OECD in Paris from 2005 to 2008 , Ambassador to Algiers , Algeria from 2009 to 2011 and Ambassador to Budapest , Hungary from 2011 to 2014 . In 2014/2015 he worked in the protocol department of the Foreign Office in Berlin. From 2015 until his retirement in 2017, he was again Permanent Representative to the OECD.

education and profession

Hoffmann is a native Romanian. His father was the painter Vincențiu Grigorescu . Hoffmann emigrated to Germany in 1963 with his mother, Anca Fălcoianu, after his parents divorced and his mother remarried to a German. Later, he went to school in Frankfurt am Main , Los Angeles and Chicago , and studied law and political science in Marburg and Geneva (scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation ). In 1975 he passed his first state examination in law and in 1979 the second state examination in law. This was followed by a research stay from 1976 to 1977 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. In 1979 Hoffmann received his doctorate in Marburg (mcl). 1975/76 and 1979/80 he was a research assistant (assistant) at the University of Marburg , Institute for Comparative Law, Anglo-American and General Departments.

In 1980 Hoffmann joined the Foreign Service . After his career examination, he became a consultant at the German Embassy in Washington, DC in 1982 , and in 1985 he moved to the Consulate General in Porto Alegre ( Brazil ) as Consul First Class . From 1986 to 1991 he worked in Germany again. After working in public relations at the German embassy in Paris, he moved to the Federal Chancellery in 1993 . 1996, Hoffmann Envoy and 1998/99 d'affaires ad interim at the German Embassy in Rome . In 1999 he headed the Federal Government's first coordination office for Kosovo in Prizren . Until 2000 he was Deputy High Representative for the civilian implementation of the Dayton Agreement in Sarajevo . Hoffmann was then coordinator for international personnel policy in the Federal Foreign Office.

In 2002 he took over the management of the German embassy in Bogotá , Colombia . From 2005 to 2008 he was permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris, before moving to the German embassy in Algiers in 2009. In 2011, he was replaced by Jutta Wolke in this position . 2011 to 2014 was head of the German embassy in Budapest , Hungary . After an interim position as an employee of the minutes of the Foreign Office in Berlin 2014/15, he was again permanent representative at the OECD at the end of his career from 2015 to 2017.

He is married and has two grown children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petre Badica: Interviu. Romania Libera: Umbra lui Helmut Kohl ( Romanian ) Romania libera. December 22, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2014.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris ( Memento of February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Aida Ivan from ADZ in conversation with Dr. Matei Ion Hoffmann: German ambassador with Romanian roots

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter von Jagow	German ambassador in Bogotá 2002–2005	Michael Glotzbach
Hans-Stefan Kruse	Permanent representative of Germany to the OECD 2005–2008	Johannes Westerhoff
Johannes Westerhoff	German ambassador in Algiers 2009–2011	Jutta Cloud
Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel	German ambassador in Budapest 2011–2014	Lieselore Cyrus
Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth	Permanent representative of Germany to the OECD 2015–2017	Martin Hanz