Reinhard Silberberg

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Reinhard Silberberg (2016)

Reinhard Silberberg (born May 17, 1953 in Burgsteinfurt ) is a German diplomat and from 2014 to 2018 permanent representative of Germany to the EU.

Life

Before 1998 he worked at the embassy in Bangladesh and Guatemala . From 1998 to 2005 he was head of the European policy department in the Federal Chancellery . From March 2006 to November 2009 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office . At the end of 2009 Silberberg became ambassador to Spain , Madrid. In the summer of 2014 he switched to the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union and exchanged positions with Peter Tempel . Reinhard Silberberg retired in summer 2018 and handed over to Michael Clauss .

Silberberg is sometimes referred to in the media as the “gray eminence of German European politics”. Jacques Chirac , who knew him from many summit meetings, once described him as “competent and very intelligent”.

Silberberg is married and has four children.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New permanent representative of Germany to the EU: Reinhard Silberberg. European Movement Germany, September 11, 2014, accessed on September 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The time of April 18, 2018: Maas names new ambassador for the USA
  3. ↑ Reinhard Silberberg: Graue Eminenz der Deutschen EU-Politik ( Memento from December 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Portrait of Wolfgang Proissl in the Financial Times Deutschland from December 11, 2003.
  4. ^ Brussels veterans and a connoisseur from the Chancellery: The leading EU experts of the Federal Government ( Memento of March 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - Phoenix.de via Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Silberberg, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgsteinfurt