Max Scharinger

Max Scharinger, 2013

Konrad Max Scharinger (born February 2, 1950 in Passau ) is a German diplomat . From 2012 to 2015 he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Vienna .

Life

After graduating from high school, Scharinger completed a teaching degree for grammar school in the subjects of German, history and geography at the University of Regensburg from 1972 to 1979 and also worked as a research assistant for linguistic information science at the University of Regensburg and Siemens AG between 1974 and 1979 .

In 1980, Scharinger joined the Foreign Service and, after two years of preparatory service and a career examination for the higher foreign service, was initially employed as a press officer at the embassy in Morocco between 1982 and 1983 and then from 1983 to 1986 as a consultant in the environment department of the Foreign Office in Bonn . After working as an economic advisor at the embassy in Egypt from 1986 to 1989 , he worked as a cultural advisor at the embassy in Belgium between 1989 and 1991 .

Scharinger then stayed in Belgium, where he was political advisor at the Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels until 1993 , before he was appointed Deputy Head of Division in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Unit at the Foreign Office between 1993 and 1997 . He then acted from 1997 to 2002 as head of the economic department at the embassy in the USA and subsequently between 2002 and 2004 as head of the North America department at the Foreign Office in Berlin .

Scharinger was then envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2004 to 2008 and during this time also worked as co-managing director of the German-Czech Future Fund from 2005 to 2008 . He then served as Envoy and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva between 2008 and 2012 .

From July 23, 2012, Scharinger was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Vienna, and thus succeeded Rüdiger Lüdeking , who in turn became Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the OSCE in Vienna . After he retired in July 2015, he was replaced in this role by Friedrich Däuble .

Scharinger has been a board member of the Society for Foreign Policy since 2015 and has been a special ambassador for Germany's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council since 2016 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German UN Mission in Vienna ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )