Matthias Meyer (diplomat)

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Matthias Alfred Meyer (born January 12, 1952 in Hohenfelde (Stormarn) ) is a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg , Meyer studied law at the University of Hamburg between 1970 and 1976 and graduated with the first state examination in 1976 before taking the second state examination in 1980 after completing his legal clerkship .

He then joined the Foreign Service in 1980 and, after visiting the diplomatic training center in Bonn, was first consul in Cairo in 1983 , before he was then deputy consul general in Barcelona between 1985 and 1987 . After a subsequent assignment in the Foreign Office , he was first counselor and permanent representative of the Ambassador in Jordan from 1989 to 1994 , before being employed again in the Foreign Office.

In 1997 he was accredited as ambassador to Tajikistan and then from 2000 to 2003 as ambassador to Sudan . In 2003 Meyer returned to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin , where he was head of division for the Middle East and, between 2004 and 2006, head of division for the Middle East , Maghreb and Sudan. He then became ambassador to Uzbekistan .

From August 2009 Matthias Meyer was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Libya. According to newspaper reports, Meyer cleared personal belongings from the embassy residence at the time of the uprising against Gaddafi, thereby ignoring an entry warning in Libya from the Foreign Office. Due to the political unrest, the embassy temporarily closed the embassy in early March 2011.

From September 2011 to summer 2012, Matthias Meyer was the civil leader of the provincial reconstruction team in Mazar-i-Sharif.

In 2012 Matthias Meyer became the new German ambassador to the Republic of Moldova . Most recently Matthias Meyer was the German ambassador to Nepal . He retired in 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel: Going it alone in Tripoli: German ambassador in Libya is threatened with dismissal
  2. ↑ WELT-Online: Ex-Libya Ambassador: Relocation affair - diplomat transferred to Afghanistan
  3. ↑ Ambassador Matthias Meyer presents credentials ( memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Matthias Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenfelde