Pius Fischer (diplomat)

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Pius Fischer (born December 23, 1948 in Augsburg ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Guinea and Sierra Leone from 1996 to 2001 , Cambodia between 2004 and 2007 , Mongolia from 2007 to 2011 and most recently between 2011 and 2014 Ambassador to Montenegro .

Life and diplomacy

After studying mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Munich , from which he graduated with the academic degree of "Diplom-Mathematikers", followed a degree in economics at the Technical University of Munich, which he finished with the academic degree of "Diplom-Wirtschaftsmathematikers".

After joining the higher foreign service in 1977, he was employed at the German Embassy in India , in the Foreign Office and at the representation at the Holy See (Vatican).

From 1988 to 1992 Pius Fischer worked at the German Consul General in Los Angeles . Subsequently, he was head of the IT planning department at the Federal Foreign Office. From 1996 to 2001 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Guinea and as such he was also as ambassador to Sierra Leone accredited .

From 2001 to July 2004, Pius Fischer was Head of the Unit for UN Budgetary and Personnel Issues at the German Foreign Office and from 2004 to 2007 Ambassador to Cambodia . From 2007 to 2011 Fischer was ambassador to Mongolia .

Most recently, he was the German ambassador to Montenegro from 2011 to 2014 . After his subsequent retirement, he was followed by the previous ambassador to North Macedonia , Gudrun Steinacker , as ambassador to Montenegro.

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Individual evidence

  1. AAS 82 (1990), n. 4, p. 414.