Peter Fahrenholtz

Peter Fahrenholtz (* in Hamburg ) is a German diplomat . He has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Bangladesh since August 2018 .

Life

Fahrenholtz completed after high school in Washington, DC from 1976 to 1982 to study economics (VWL) and Japanese Studies at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and held after 1982-1984 with a research grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture in Japan on.

After drivingholtz worked for Deutsche Bank between 1984 and 1986 , he joined the Foreign Service in 1986 and, after completing his preparatory service for the higher-level foreign service and passing the career test, between 1988 and 1991 initially worked as a consultant for culture and the German minority at the Embassy in Romania and then from 1991 and 1995 at the Consulate General in Osaka - Kobe . After his return to Germany, he worked in the economic department of the Foreign Office between 1995 and 1997, especially on international raw materials issues, and then from 1997 to 2001 as head of the legal and consular department at the embassy in Iran .

Then, between 2001 and 2004, Fahrenholtz acted as deputy head of the Crisis Response Center of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and thus as representative of Peter Linder . After completing this activity, he was acting head of the consulate general in Mumbai from 2004 to 2006 and then permanent representative of the ambassador to Ethiopia , before he was employed at the Foreign Office in Berlin as head of division for West and Central Africa between 2009 and 2012 .

September 2012 to August 2016 Fahrenholtz was ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda and successor of the retirement came Elmar Timpe . In 2016 he was replaced by Peter Woeste . From September 2016 to July 2018 he was the German Consul General in Toronto, Canada. Fahrholtz has been the German ambassador to Bangladesh since August 2018.

2001 Fahrenholtz has been prepared by the Federal President , the Federal Cross of Merit awarded. He is married and has five children.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German Embassy in Rwanda ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Elmar Timpe	Ambassador to Rwanda 2012–2016	Peter Woeste