Roland Lohkamp

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Roland Lohkamp (born June 10, 1944 in Mömbris , Lower Franconia ) is a German diplomat. Most recently he was ambassador to Bucharest.

Life

Roland Lohkamp grew up in Munich and graduated from high school in 1963. He then did military service, which he finished as a lieutenant in 1965 . He studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Geneva . He became a political scientist in 1972 and passed the second state examination in law in 1974. After joining the Foreign Service (1975), he was employed at the embassy in Japan (political department), at the Foreign Office in Bonn (press department) and at the embassy in Thailand (head of the economic service). From 1988 to 1989 he was Deputy Head of the South Asia Department in the Foreign Office. After an assignment at the German Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels , he became head of Division 242 (Conventional Arms Control ) in the Foreign Office in 1991 .

From 1994 to 1999 Lohkamp was press spokesman for Federal President Roman Herzog . After this position he became head of the Consular Affairs Sub-Department in the Foreign Office in 1999. From 2001 to 2002 the ministerial director was the representative for migration , asylum and visa issues in the legal department of the Federal Foreign Office. According to SPIEGEL (of February 21, 2005, p. 22 ff), the non-party diplomat is said to have repeatedly criticized the top ministry's visa policy. He then became the German ambassador in Luxembourg. At the end of his diplomatic career, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Romania from 2006 to 2009 .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • German-Luxembourg relations. In: Luxembourg and Europe. Weiss-Verlag 2006.

Associate Editor

  • with Jürgen Henkel: Between Nazis and personalities of the resistance. German diplomacy in Romania from 1933 to 1945 / Între nazişti si personalitați ale rezistenței. Schiller-Verlag, Sibiu (Hermannstadt) / Bonn 2008. ISBN 978-3-941271-34-0 .

literature

  • Günter Diehl: With the brave - diplomatic trips to Outer Mongolia . Frankfurt a. M. 1988 (various references from the name register)
  • Roman Herzog: Years of Politics - The Memories . Munich 2007, p. 163

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Lohkamp, ​​Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mömbris , Lower Franconia