Michael Glotzbach

Michael Glotzbach (born April 28, 1947 in Wiesbaden ) is a former German diplomat . From 2008 to 2012 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chile .

Life

After graduating from high school , Glotzbach studied law from 1966 to 1970 , which he completed in 1971 with the first state examination in law. During his subsequent legal traineeship from 1972 to 1975 he put his 1975 promotion to Dr. iur. at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a dissertation on the subject of the state export credit insurance in France and Germany: a comparative legal representation taking into account the harmonization efforts in the common market .

In 1975 he passed the second state examination in law and then joined the foreign service . After completing the career examination for the higher service in 1977, he worked in the Foreign Office in Bonn and from 1980 to 1983 as head of the press department at the embassy in Chile . After another position in the Foreign Office, he worked for the embassy in Poland between 1985 and 1988 , before returning to the Foreign Office until 1989.

In 1989 Glotzbach became deputy head of a department in the Foreign Office and then from 1992 to 1996 permanent representative of the ambassador to Saudi Arabia . As part of a diplomatic exchange, he worked on the planning staff of the Foreign Ministry of France from 1996 to 1998 , before returning in 1998 to becoming head of the central "Service Law" department at the Foreign Office, thus overseeing the entire German diplomatic service.

He then was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Barcelona from 2001 to July 2005 and then as the successor to Matei Hoffmann , who in turn became Ambassador of the Federal Republic to the OECD in Paris , from 2005 to 2008 Ambassador to Colombia .

From 2008 until his retirement in 2012, Michael Glotzbach was Peter Scholz's successor as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chile . His successor as ambassador to Colombia was Jürgen Christian Mertens , who was previously head of the organizational staff for the German EU presidency and the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 .

Web links

• CV on the website of the Embassy in Chile