Peter Zingraf

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Peter Zingraf is a German diplomat . He has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Albania since August 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Peter Zingraf studied Romance studies with a focus on French and Italian literary history in Aachen . He continued his studies in France at the University of Poitiers and in Italy at the University of Florence and then worked as a research assistant at the Universities of Aachen and Freiburg im Breisgau .

He joined the Foreign Service in 1993 in Bonn . The following year he went to Rome as an exchange officer at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . After returning to the Foreign Office in 1995, he took on tasks in its Political Department. From 1996 to 1999 Zingraf worked at the German embassy in Warsaw .

After the Foreign Office was relocated to Berlin , Zingraf was employed there in Section 604 (“Science and Universities”) of the Culture Department. In 2002 he went to the German embassy in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania . From 2005 he worked in the corporate department of the Foreign Office and from 2010 at the German Embassy in the Irish capital Dublin , where he was deputy of the Ambassador. Between 2013 and 2016, he worked in the foreign affairs department of the Federal President's Office . In 2016, Zingraf returned to the central department of the Federal Foreign Office.

He then took over the office of ambassador for the first time: Since August 1, 2019, Peter Zingraf has headed the German embassy in the Albanian capital Tirana as the successor to Susanne Schütz . Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1987, Zingraf has been the eleventh German ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Albania.

See also

Fonts

  • Peter Zingraf: German translations from Italian in the 18th century - an overview . In: Elisabeth Arend (ed.): History of translation as history of reception: Ways and forms of reception of Italian literature in the German-speaking area from the 15th to the 20th century . Hitzeroth, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-89398-132-2 , p. 51-79 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of participants . In: University Consortium GATE (Ed.): University Marketing on the Move - Quality and Competition: Conference Report . 2001 ( online [PDF]).
  2. ^ New Ambassadors Present Credentials. In: Merrion Street. September 13, 2011, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ambassador Peter Zingraf. Retrieved on November 23, 2019 (Ambassador Peter Zingraf's curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Embassy in Tirana).


predecessor Office successor
Susanne Schütz German ambassador to Albania
from 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zingraf, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century