Michael Steiner (diplomat)

Michael Steiner (left) with Zalmay Rassoul (center) and Marc Grossman at a press conference in Kabul in June 2011

Michael Steiner (born November 28, 1949 in Munich ) is a German diplomat and was most recently ambassador to India until his retirement in 2015 .

Life

Steiner studied in Munich and Paris law and entered 1981 in the Foreign Service one. After assignments in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ), New York (at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations ), Prague and Zagreb, Steiner coordinated the German participation in the peace efforts in the former Yugoslavia and was First Deputy High Representative from 1996 to 1997 Sarajevo. On September 30, 1989, Steiner said he was standing behind Federal Foreign Minister Genscher on the balcony of Palais Lobkowitz .

From 1998 to 2001 he was the foreign and security policy advisor to the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the rank of Ministerial Director in the Federal Chancellery. After the so-called caviar / asshole affair , he had to vacate this post. From 2002 to 2003 Steiner was head of the UN interim administration in Kosovo . Since 2003 he has represented Germany at the United Nations in Geneva . Reinhard Schweppe succeeded him in this position in August 2007 .

Steiner would then German Ambassador in Warsaw to be, however, a prevented Chancellery - veto his appointment. According to media reports, Michael Steiner was considered by the CDU- led Chancellery to be close to the SPD and “rough-and-tumble”. Instead, Michael H. Gerdts , who was previously the Federal Republic's ambassador to Italy, received the post . In return, Steiner succeeded him in Rome, where he served as ambassador until his appointment as Afghanistan / Pakistan representative in March 2009. Since April 2010, he has been the German government's special commissioner for Afghanistan and Pakistan . In this office he succeeded Ambassador Bernd Mützelburg , who, however, was only responsible to the Foreign Office and not to the entire federal government.

On February 10, 2012, the Federal Foreign Office announced Steiner's dismissal as special commissioner of the federal government for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Michael Koch was his successor .

Steiner was then ambassador to India after the previous ambassador Thomas Matussek Head of Public Affairs of the already November 1, 2011 Deutsche Bank and the embassy since then by the local ambassador Cord Meier-Klodt as charge d'affaires was headed. In July 2012, Steiner officially took office as ambassador. He retired on June 30, 2015.

He is a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .

Michael Steiner is married and lives in Munich.

Web links

• Michael Steiner: The consequence of solidarity. Even after 2014, Afghanistan needs our long-term commitment. In: International Politics . October 28, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011 (New founding of Michael Steiner's German engagement in Afghanistan). 
• Sven Hansen and Gordon Repinski: "It was overconfident". German diplomat on Afghanistan. In: the daily newspaper . January 26, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2011 (Interview with Michael Steiner about the situation during the war in Afghanistan since 2001 ). 
• Majid Sattar : Steiner's hour on the Petersberg. Afghanistan conference. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 31, 2011, accessed November 2, 2011 (information about Steiner's role in organizing the 2011 Afghanistan Conference). 

• Michael Steiner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Embassy in India (accessed on September 11, 2012)
• Deutschlandfunk Dlf - Interview with contemporary witnesses on February 28, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dilli, Dilli - Stories from Delhi. (No longer available online.) In: ARD-aktuell ARD-Aktuell. October 8, 2014, archived from the original on June 20, 2015 ; Retrieved June 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Former head of UNMIK (SRSG) Listed on UNMIK's website.
3. ↑ Arrival of Ambassador Schweppe ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet presence of the German representations in Geneva 
4. ^ Chancellery brakes Steinmeier from Spiegel-Online, April 28, 2007
5. ^ Federal Foreign Office, curriculum vitae: Michael Steiner
6. ↑ Koch becomes the new Afghanistan representative. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 10, 2012, accessed February 10, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Stephan Löwenstein, Majid Sattar: Tandoori Chicken instead of frog legs. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 29, 2012, accessed March 1, 2012 . 
8. ^ DGVN Presidium