Peter Platte

Peter Platte (born February 11, 1952 in Remscheid ) is a former German diplomat . He was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Montenegro from August 2008 to August 2011 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972, Peter Platte studied economics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Mainz from 1972 to 1977 . In 1978 he obtained the Certificat des Hautes Etudes Européennes in Strasbourg . In 1979 he joined the higher foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1981 he completed his diplomatic training in Bonn .

In 1981/82 Platte worked in the Political Department of the Foreign Office . Stays abroad took him from 1982 to 1985 to the Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and from 1985 to 1988 to the Consulate General in Madras ( India ).

From 1988 to 1991 Platte worked in the cultural department of the Foreign Office before he was transferred to the German Embassy in Brasília from 1991 to 1996 . From 1996 to 2000 he was a consultant in the department for global issues at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2000 to 2004 he was deputy head of the department for humanitarian aid . From 2004 to 2008 he worked as deputy head of the German representation at UNESCO in Paris .

In August 2008, Peter Platte presented the Montenegrin President Filip Vujanović with his credentials as German ambassador to Montenegro . After Thomas Schmitt, Peter Platte was the second German ambassador since the independence of Montenegro in 2006.

In summer 2011, Peter Platte was transferred back to the cultural department of the Foreign Office in Berlin. His successor as ambassador to Montenegro was Pius Fischer .

From 2014 until his retirement in 2017, Peter Platte was head of the cultural department at the German Embassy in Madrid .

Private life

Peter Platte is married and has three children.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Montenegro ( Memento from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )