Peter Dingens

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Peter Dingens (born August 3, 1935 in Hamm ) is a former German ambassador .

Life

Peter Dingens studied economics and completed a master's degree at the College of Europe in 1960/61 . He joined the foreign service in 1965 . He was accredited to the Consulate General in Chicago in 1965 . In 1969 Dingens was a press officer at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow. In this function he was represented by Henning von Wistinghausen .

On February 14, 1974 Dingens greeted the expelled Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Frankfurt Airport in Russian, which irritated him a little, as he had doubts about the place of arrival. On February 15, 1974 Dingens reported on Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn.

Dingens was the German ambassador to Mexico from 1990 to 1994 . During his term of office there, the double taxation agreement with Mexico for the Federal Republic of Germany was signed on February 23, 1993.

From 1998 to 2000 Dingens was the German ambassador to Egypt . On August 27, 2000 Dingens had an audience with Atif Abaid .

Dingens was the Federal Government Commissioner in Bonn for the Near and Middle East. In 2000 Peter Dingens was retired. Peter Dingens is an employee of the German Orient Institute and a member of the supervisory board of the Near and Middle East Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Meyer-Landrut : With God and long underpants. Experiences of a Diplomat during the Cold War. http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/1219265491000/00623/solschenizyn_1974_D_623837g.jpg
  2. ^ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Daniela Taschler, Fabian Hilfrich, Michael Ploetz: files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1974. Volume 1, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57558-9 , p. 203 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Al Ahram, August 28, 2000, Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Obeid on Sunday met with German Ambassador to Egypt Peter Dingens and discussed Egypt's Mideast peacemaking role. They also tackled bilateral cooperation in various sectors.
  4. ↑ Hard selection. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 18, 2006
predecessor Office successor
Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Mexico
1991–1995 		Werner Reichenbaum
Wolf-Dietrich Schilling Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cairo
1998–2000 		Paul von Maltzahn
personal data
SURNAME Thing, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm