Pascal Richter (diplomat)

Pascal Georg Gottfried Richter (born April 7, 1963 in Tübingen ) is a German diplomat . He has been Ambassador to Gabon since July 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Pascal Richter studied law in Berlin and Tübingen from 1982 , completed the legal clerkship from 1989 to 1993 after passing the first state examination in law, and passed the second state examination in 1993 . In 1996 he was awarded a PhD at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the subject of the enlargement of the European Union with special consideration of the conditions for accession to the Dr. Doctorate in law. Pascal Richter is married to the writer Barbara Bongartz .

career

In 1993 Richter joined the Foreign Service and completed his training for the higher foreign service by 1996. His first assignment abroad was from 1996 to 1999 at the Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City . This was followed by stations at the embassies in Islamabad (1999 to 2002) and Kabul (2002 to 2003). After working in the Foreign Office, Richter took over the management of the Mazar-e-Sharif branch in 2006 .

Richter stayed there until 2007, when he returned to the Foreign Office as deputy head of department and was transferred to the Dushanbe embassy in 2010 . Richter worked at the Algiers embassy from 2013 to 2016 , then returned to the Foreign Office and was appointed ambassador to Gabon based in Libreville in July 2019 .

Web links

• Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy in Libreville. Retrieved March 17, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT October 29, 2019 S1
2. ^ Richter, Pascal .: The expansion of the European Union: with special consideration of the conditions of membership . 1st edition Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4669-8 .