Rainer Münzel

Rainer Konrad Münzel (born April 9, 1956 in Karlstadt ) is a German diplomat who was ambassador to Equatorial Guinea from 2014 to 2016 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Würzburg in 1975, Münzel began studying Romance studies and Catholic theology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Montpellier . After the first state examination in 1981, he completed his legal clerkship in Bamberg and Nuremberg between 1981 and 1984 and then passed his second state examination in 1984.

In 1984 Münzel began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after graduating from 1986 to 1987 initially worked at the Foreign Office in Bonn and then between 1987 and 1990 at the embassy in Greece , before he was employed at the embassy in Israel from 1990 to 1991 found. After returning to the Foreign Office from 1991 to 1994, he worked at the Embassy in Kenya between 1994 and 1997 and at the Consulate General in New York City from 1997 to 2001 .

Münzel was then Head of Division in the Federal President's Office between 2001 and 2002 and then Deputy Head of Division in the Foreign Office from 2002 to 2005, before he was Consul General in Houston between 2005 and 2009 . After working from 2009 to 2011 as head of the department for legal and consular affairs at the embassy in Poland , between 2011 and 2013 he worked as a member of the management team in the Federal Ministry of Economics and then from January to August 2014 as an employee of the Society for Foreign Trade and Location Marketing GTAI ( Germany Trade and Invest ) in Berlin .

In August 2014 Münzel succeeded Michael Klepsch as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Equatorial Guinea . He held this post until September 2016 and was then replaced by Elmar Jakobs .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Malabo (archive version from June 18, 2015)