Peter Ammon
Peter Ammon (born February 23, 1952 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German diplomat . He was State Secretary in the Federal Foreign Office from 2008 to 2011 , Ambassador to Washington, DC from 2011 to 2014, and Ambassador to London from 2014 to 2018.
Life
Ammon studied mathematics , physics, and economics . From 1975 to 1978 he did his doctorate in economics and held an assistant position at the Free University of Berlin .
He is married and has two children.
career
After joining the Foreign Service , Ammon attended the diplomatic school in Bonn until 1980 . His first post abroad took him to the embassy in London and then to the embassy in Dakar . Then he moved to the economic department of the Foreign Office. From 1989 to 1991 he worked in the embassy in New Delhi before coming back to Bonn, this time on the planning staff. From 1996 to 1999, Ammon was the head of the planning staff at the Office of the Federal President . Until 2001 he was envoy and head of the economic department of the embassy in Washington, DC. This was followed by a six-year service as head of the department for economics and sustainable development in the Federal Foreign Office. At the same time he was used as a sous-sherpa at the G-8 summits .
From 2007 to 2008, Ammon was the Federal Republic of Germany's ambassador to France . In 2008 he was appointed State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office (StS-A) by Foreign Minister Steinmeier, where he succeeded Georg Boomgaarden . In August 2011, Ammon was appointed German Ambassador to Washington as the successor to Klaus Scharioth . From April 2014 to January 2018 he was the German ambassador in London, his successor in Washington being Peter Wittig .
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German Embassy in London
- Hans Monath: I'm not a fan of pessimism . In: Tagesspiegel . February 4, 2011 ( Portrait of Peter Ammon, Ambassador to the USA, future: “I am not a fan of pessimism” ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Gebauer: Ambassador Peter Ammon: Berlin's new man in Washington. In: Spiegel Online . February 3, 2011, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Report on the appointment of ambassadors , spiegel.de, January 15, 2014, accessed on January 20, 2014
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Klaus Scharioth |
German Ambassador to the United States 2011–2014 |
Peter Wittig |
| Georg Boomgaarden |
German Ambassador to the United Kingdom 2014–2018 |
Peter Wittig |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammon, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |