Ole Diehl

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Ole Diehl (born April 3, 1964 in Kiel ) is a German diplomat and political scientist . He is currently the German ambassador in Baghdad . From 2016 to 2019 he was Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service .

Life

From 1983 Diehl studied political science , public law and Slavic studies at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1988 he became a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies (BiOst) in Cologne , from which the Science and Politics Foundation emerged in 2000 , as well as at the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Bonn . His writings deal with military issues related to the Warsaw Pact . He received his doctorate in 1992 from the Free University in Berlin on the topic of the strategy discussion in the Soviet Union .

career

In 1994 Diehl began training as an attaché at the Foreign Office (AA) in Bonn. He was then a consultant in the offices of the then State Minister Werner Hoyer and the then Federal Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Klaus Kinkel . In 1997 he was cultural and press attaché at the German Embassy in Wellington ( New Zealand ) and two years later adviser for foreign policy in the FDP parliamentary group as a personal assistant to the FDP - Bundestag deputies Kinkel. In 2006, Diehl became head of division in the Office of the Federal President . In 2009 he moved to the German Embassy in Washington, DC ( USA ) as Counselor . In the same year Diehl Head of Parliament - and the Cabinet Unit in AA and five years later, in 2014, Head of Office of Minister of State Maria Böhmer in AA. Also in 2014 he was appointed Head of Division for Central Europe at the Foreign Office.

After serving as Consul General in Mazar-e Sharif ( Afghanistan ) from 2015 to 2016 , Diehl was appointed Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), where he succeeded Michael Klor-Berchtold , who moved to Iran as Ambassador . On August 19, 2019, he was accredited as Germany's ambassador to Iraq .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ole Diehl: Kiev and Moscow - the Ukrainian-Russian relations as a central problem of German and European security (=  working papers on international politics . Volume 84 ). Europa-Union-Verlag, Bonn 1994, ISBN 978-3-7713-0478-2 .
  • Ole Diehl: The strategy discussion in the Soviet Union - on the change in the Soviet warfare concept in the eighties . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 978-3-8244-4122-8 (dissertation).
  • Ole Diehl: UN missions of the Bundeswehr. Foreign policy imperatives to act and domestic policy consensus . In: Europa-Archiv . tape 8 , 1993, pp. 219-227 .
  • Ole Diehl: Post-Soviet Risks - New Challenges for German Security Policy (=  Working Papers on International Politics . Volume 70 ). Europa-Union-Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 978-3-7713-0432-4 .
  • Ole Diehl: "Military Thinking" - a previously inaccessible magazine of the Soviet General Staff . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1990.
  • Anton Krakau, Ole Diehl: “Approximate parity” of the armed forces in Europe? A critical analysis of the Eastern comparison of the armed forces . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1989.
  • Ole Diehl, Anton Krakau: The Military Potential of the Warsaw Pact in Europe . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1989.
  • Anton Krakau, Ole Diehl: The military experts of the Soviet western research institutes and the inner-Soviet strategy discussion . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1989.
  • Ole Diehl, Anton Krakau: The KRK initiatives of the Warsaw Pact in the light of the Soviet understanding of parity and defensiveness . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1988.
  • Ole Diehl: The civil defense of the USSR and its importance as a strategic component . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian van Lessen: Jakob-Kaiser-Haus: The largest new building in Parliament is ready after five years. In: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/ . January 22, 2002, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Foreign Office: Foreign Office - New Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Baghdad accredited. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, diplomat and Vice President of the BND
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel