Peter Dettmar

Peter Dettmar (born September 4, 1953 in Braunlage ) is a German diplomat who was ambassador to Belarus from 2015 to 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972 and after completing military service in the Bundeswehr in 1973, Dettmar began studying economics and political science , which he completed in 1979 with a diploma in economics .

In 1980 Dettmar began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation was initially employed at the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1982 and 1983 and then from 1983 to 1986 at the permanent mission to the European Union in Brussels , where he worked from 1986 to 1989 as Permanent representative of the Ambassador in Burkina Faso acted. After his return to Germany, he was again employed in the Foreign Office between 1989 and 1996, most recently from 1993 to 1996 as deputy head of department .

Dettmar then worked at the embassy in the Netherlands between 1996 and 2001 and then head of the economic service at the embassy in Russia from 2001 to 2004 . Subsequently, between 2004 and 2008, he was initially head of division in the Foreign Office, before he was permanent representative of the ambassador in Belarus between 2009 and 2013 . He was then consul general in Milan from 2013 to 2015 .

In September 2015 Dettmar returned to Minsk and took over the post of ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belarus as the successor to the retired Wolfram Maas . On October 5, 2015, he was received by the President of the Republic of Belarus , Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko , to present his credentials. In summer 2019 he was replaced by Manfred Huterer .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy Minsk ( Memento from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT October 15, 2015 S1