Michael Clauss

Michael Clauß , also Michael Clauss (* 1961 in Hanover ) is a German diplomat who has been the permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union since August 2018 .

Life

Clauß was born in Hanover in 1961. After graduating, he joined the Foreign Service in 1988 . He is married and has four kids.

career

After completing the career examination for the higher service in 1990, he was employed in the Foreign Office's crisis team during the Second Gulf War . In 1991 he moved to the embassy in Israel as political advisor . After a subsequent assignment from 1994 to 1997 as a personnel officer for the higher service in the Foreign Office, he became Counselor at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU in Brussels in 1997 . In 1999 he became a personal assistant to a State Secretary at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin .

Clauss then acted as head of the office of state secretaries in the Foreign Office between 2001 and 2002 and in 2002 took over the office of head of the federal government's secretariat for the European Convention . From 2005 to 2010 he was Deputy Head of the European Department of the Foreign Office and at the same time representative for the German EU Council Presidency in 2007 . In 2010 he became head of the European Department of the Federal Foreign Office.

From 2013 to 2018 Michael Clauß was the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People's Republic of China . He became the successor of Michael Schaefer , who had previously retired and has been Chairman of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt since July 1, 2013 . In the summer of 2018, he moved to the head of the permanent representation in Brussels as the successor to Reinhard Silberberg .

Web links

• The permanent representative. Curriculum vitae of Ambassador Michael Clauß , bruessel-eu.diplo.de article from 23 August 2018 (accessed on 29 December 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Permanent Representative. Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union, 23 August 2018, accessed on 2 November 2018 (German).