Michael Feiner

Michael Feiner (born September 2, 1959 in Memmingen ) is a German doctor and diplomat . Since August 2017 he has been Consul General in Calcutta , India.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979, Feiner studied medicine between 1980 and 1987 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Liverpool . After completing his studies, he worked as a doctor at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg between 1988 and 1990 . In the meantime, he obtained his doctorate in medicine at the University of Tübingen in 1989 with a dissertation entitled Discharges from inpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry .

After his return from South Africa , Feiner joined the foreign service in 1990 and completed the preparatory service for the higher foreign service between 1990 and 1992. After serving as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Angola from 1992 to 1994 , he completed postgraduate studies in administrative sciences at Harvard University , which he completed in 1995 with a Master of Public Administration (MPA).

This was followed between 1995 and 1998 use at the Permanent Mission at the United Nations in New York City and thereafter at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin before he 2000-2002 head of the program children's rights and child protection of UNICEF in Myanmar was. After a subsequent position as Head of Press and Culture at the Embassy in Brazil (2002–2006), he was Deputy Head of the Africa Department in the Foreign Office from 2006 to 2010. He was then permanent representative of the Ambassador to Malaysia between 2010 and 2013 .

In September 2013 Feiner became Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Niger, successor to Gordon Kricke . He remained in this position until 2015 and was then replaced by Bernd von Münchow-Pohl . After serving as an exchange officer in the German Bundestag , he was transferred to Calcutta as Consul General in 2017.

Publications

• Discharges from inpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry , dissertation, University of Tübingen 1989

Web links

• CV ( memento of March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the embassy in Niamey
• Resume. In: Website of the German representations in India. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .