Ralf Beste

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Ralf Beste (born June 21, 1966 in Witten ) is a German diplomat and journalist . He has been Ambassador to the Republic of Austria since September 2019 .

After graduating from high school in Witten in 1985 and doing military service in Neumünster (1985/86), Ralf studied best history in Bochum, Bielefeld and Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He has a master's in history from the University of Bielefeld (1991) and a Master of Arts of the Johns Hopkins University (1990).

After completing his studies, Beste completed a traineeship at Ruhr Nachrichten in Dortmund , where he then worked as a local editor in Castrop-Rauxel . In 1994 he switched to the Ministry of Finance of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz as press spokesman . From 1996 to 2000 he worked for the Berliner Zeitung as a parliamentary correspondent , first in Bonn and from 1999 after the government moved to Berlin . In 2001 he moved to the capital office of SPIEGEL , for which he reported for 13 years, primarily on foreign and security policy and the Bündnis90 / Die Grünen party .

In 2014 Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier brought him to the Foreign Office as deputy head of the planning team . There he was involved in the 2014 Review of German Foreign Policy. In 2016, Beste moved to the newly created "Strategic Communication" department as a representative. In 2017 he became the best head of the planning staff.

In the summer of 2019, he moved to the German Embassy in Austria as head and was received by the Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on September 18, 2019 to present his credentials.

Ralf Beste is married and has two children. He is a member of BV Borussia Dortmund .

Web link

Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy Vienna. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Baumann: New Ambassador Ralf Beste: From German tanker to Austrian start-up. In: derStandard.de. September 18, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: Search - SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Beste becomes deputy head of planning at the AA. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ " Everyday work should be freed from ballast". Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Csc: Foreign Office: Talking helps! In: Spiegel Online . tape July 30 , 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 27, 2019]).
  6. ^ Paul Schreyer: Federal Foreign Office: War Marketing Instead of Peace Diplomacy? Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Daniel Friedrich Sturm: In the Foreign Office there is now more to laugh about . February 15, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed September 27, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Beste heads the planning staff in the Foreign Office. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  9. ^ Federal Foreign Office: Handing over the credentials to Federal President Van der Bellen. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Haindl German ambassador to Austria
since 2019
personal data
SURNAME Best, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten