Rolf Theodor Schuster

Rolf Theodor Schuster (born August 10, 1960 in Memmingen , Bavaria ) is a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school , Schuster studied business administration and biology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1979 to 1985 and graduated in 1985 with a diploma in business administration. He then studied physics and mathematics between 1986 and 1988 .

In 1989 he joined the Foreign Service and completed the career test for the higher service in 1991. At the same time he received his doctorate in economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1991 with a dissertation on the subject of hysteresis in labor markets: an investigation into the empirical relevance of stochastic catastrophe theory .

After an assignment from 1991 to 1994 as an employee of the Permanent Mission to the OSCE in Vienna , he was a consultant in the Protocol Department of the Foreign Office and then from 1998 to 2000 permanent representative of the Consul General in Houston . After his return, he first worked in the Controlling Department of the Foreign Office and then from 2001 and 2004 Head of IT Strategy, and finally between 2004 and 2008 Chief Information Officer of the Foreign Office.

From 2008 to 2011 Schuster was envoy and head of the political department of the embassy in Spain . From 2011 to 2014 he was consul general in Jeddah , from where he was transferred to Seoul and then to Berlin.

Fonts

• Hysteresis in labor markets: an investigation into the empirical relevance of stochastic catastrophe theory , Bergisch Gladbach 1991, ISBN 3-89012-265-5 (dissertation)