Michael Klor-Berchtold

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Michael Klor-Berchtold, right, shakes hands with the Iranian Foreign Minister , Mohammed Dschawad Sarif . On the left is Foreign Minister Heiko Maas .

Michael Klor-Berchtold (* 1962 in Munich ) is a German diplomat . From 2016 to summer 2020 he was the German ambassador in Tehran (Iran).

Life

Klor-Berchtold studied law in Munich and was a judge at the Munich Regional Court.

career

Michael Klor-Berchtold represented the German ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Reinhard Buchholz in 2006/2007 , who had been recalled to Germany at short notice for personal reasons. As a special envoy in the Congo, he was responsible for ensuring that 1200 German soldiers from the EU military mission Eufor- Congo were withdrawn in good time after the elections. He then served as special envoy for Somalia for seven months. In 2007 he was appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Yemen as the successor to Frank Marcus Mann . From February 2011 he was ministerial director of the crisis commissioner and head of the crisis reaction center in the Foreign Office, his successor in this office was Rüdiger König . From 2014 to 2016 Klor-Berchtold was Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service . From 2016 to 2020 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Web links

The ambassador's curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Iran

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Ambassador Michael Klor-Berchtold on a farewell tour in Tehran. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Germany's ambassador leaves the Congo. In: rp-online.de November 4, 2006
  3. ^ A b Rainer Hermann: Building trust with Kalashnikovs. In: FAZ, February 7, 2011, p. 6
  4. ↑ Michael Klor-Berchtold Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service ( Memento from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Organization plan of the Federal Foreign Office (as of April 17, 2012) (PDF; 282 kB)
  6. ^ Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service. Federal Intelligence Service, archived from the original on July 29, 2013 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 .
  7. ↑ German Embassy Tehran - More. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017 ; accessed on July 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Klor-Berchtold, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich