Robert of Rimscha

Robert von Rimscha (born December 24, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist , non-fiction author and diplomat , who has been Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany based in Chengdu , the capital of Sichuan , with responsibility for southwest China since September 2018 . He was ambassador to Laos from 2011 to 2014 and envoy to the embassy in Tokyo from 2014 to 2018.

Life

After graduating from high school , von Rimscha began studying history , German studies , philosophy , American studies and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1984 and graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Boston in 1989 with a master's degree Arts (MA). In mid-1989 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of South Africa UNISA in Pretoria. In 1990 he began postgraduate studies in American studies at the Graduate College of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Robert von Rimscha is a grandson of Hans von Rimscha .

In 1991 he was editor at the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin , where he then 1994-1996 Deputy Political and news director and then between 1996 and 2001 correspondent in the United States in Washington, DC , was before 2001 Head of the Parliament editors of Der Tagesspiegel was.

In 2004 von Rimscha moved to the federal office of the FDP . There he became the spokesman for the FDP, head of the press and public relations department, editor-in-chief of the FDP party newspaper Liberale Depesche and from 2004 to 2009 the editor in charge of the free democratic correspondence (fdk). In addition to his journalistic career and work for the FDP, he has also written eight books on foreign policy issues, in particular on the USA and the Kennedy and Bush families . He held several teaching positions at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin .

In January 2010, Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle appointed him deputy head of the planning team at the Foreign Office in Berlin . After he became the acting head of the planning team in September 2010, he succeeded Markus Ederer as head of the planning team of the Foreign Office in January 2011 , while Ederer was head of the European Union (EU) delegation for the newly created European External Action Service (EEAS) Beijing, responsible for China and Mongolia , took action.

From September 2011 to August 2014 Robert von Rimscha was ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Laos , where he succeeded Peter Wienand , who was retiring . From August 2014 to August 2018, Robert von Rimscha headed the department for culture and communication at the German embassy in Tokyo as envoy. Since September 2018 he has headed the German diplomatic mission in Chengdu, China.

Publications

• South Africa after apartheid. Aspects of political, socio-economic and cultural change in the de Klerk era , co-author Michael Behrens, 1994, ISBN 3-7890-2823-1 .
• Good hope in the Cape? The New South Africa , co-author Michael Behrens, 1994, ISBN 3-7201-5258-8 .
• "Political Correctness" in Germany. A Danger to Democracy , co-author Michael Behrens, 1995, ISBN 3-416-02540-7 .
• The little brother. Germany and the USA model , co-author Michael Behrens, 1997, ISBN 3-416-02712-4 .
• The flexible society. America as a Model for the 21st Century , 2000, ISBN 3-430-17768-5 .
• The Kennedys. The Splendor and Tragedy of the American Dream , 2001, ISBN 3-593-36529-4 .
• George W. Bush. President in Times of Crisis , 2001, ISBN 3-453-21245-2 .
• The Bushs. World power as a family heritage , 2004, ISBN 3-593-37309-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert von Rimscha in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the homepage of the embassy in Vientiane

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alumni magazine of the FU-Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), on fu-berlin.de  
2. ↑ Personnel: Von Rimscha becomes head of planning at the Foreign Office . In: Der Tagesspiegel from December 17, 2010.