Michael Georg Schmunk

Michael Georg Schmunk (born March 17, 1951 in Wiesbaden ) is a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school and following 18 months of basic military service, Schmunk studied political science , law and sociology . After completing his master's degree , he worked from 1977 to 1983 as a research assistant at the University of Bonn and at the German Bundestag, SPD parliamentary group in Bonn. In 1983 Schmunk joined the Foreign Service and began training as an attaché , which he completed in 1985 in the NATO department. His first post abroad was the embassy in Washington, DC , before he returned to Bonn in 1988 (North-South cooperation). From 1991 to 1994 he worked at the German embassy in Pretoria before becoming head of the embassy in Baku . In 1997 he returned to the Federal Foreign Office (USA; Canada, Transatlantic Relations, G 8) as deputy head of department before he was appointed head of the German diplomatic mission in Pristina in 2000. Schmunk worked in Berlin from 2002 to 2005 (Head of Department for Afghanistan), and from 2004 at the Science and Politics Foundation . As a participant in the Harvard Fellows program, he then went to Cambridge (Massachusetts) from 2005 to 2006 to do research and teaching (peace, state and nation building). From 2006 to 2008 Schmunk was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sarajevo . From 2010 to 2013 he was envoy at the OSCE Mission in Vienna. From 2013 to mid-2014 he was ambassador in Bratislava . He was then a consultant and visiting scholar at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg until mid-2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Günther Dahlhoff	German ambassador in Baku 1994–1996	Christian Siebeck
Arne Freiherr von Kittlitz	German ambassador in Sarajevo 2006–2008	Joachim Schmidt
Axel Hartmann	German ambassador in Bratislava since 2013	Thomas Götz

personal data
SURNAME	Schmunk, Michael Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiesbaden