Rolf Ulrich (diplomat)

Rolf Ulrich (born August 31, 1951 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) ) is a German diplomat.

Life

After graduating from high school in Hanover in 1970 , he did his military service in the armed forces and then studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen between 1972 and 1977 , during which he also did a study visit at the University of Geneva from 1973 to 1974 . After passing the First State Exam in Law in 1977, he completed postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science , graduating in 1978 with a Master of Laws (LL.M.), before completing the Second State Exam in 1980.

career

After joining the Foreign Service in 1981 and completing the career test for the higher service in 1983, he was employed at the Embassy in Egypt and then from 1986 to 1988 at the Foreign Office in Bonn in the Department for Germany and Berlin, before he then worked from 1989 to 1991 worked at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris .

After working from 1991 to 1996 as a consultant in the NATO department at the Foreign Office, Ulrich was permanent representative of the ambassador in Namibia until 1999 and then head of the legal and consular department at the Consulate General in New York City until 2002 . From 2002 to 2005 he was permanent representative of the Ambassador to Nigeria as the successor to Friedrich-Carl Bruns .

In August 2005 he was accredited as ambassador to the Ivory Coast , where he succeeded Marius Haas , who in turn had been appointed ambassador to Lebanon . Between 2008 and 2011 he was Head of the legal department of the Foreign Office in Berlin , while serving as ambassador to Ivory Coast from Stephan Keller , the former ambassador in Sudan was replaced. In August 2011 Ulrich became consul general in Erbil , Iraq . From September 2013 to 2017 he was ambassador to Botswana .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Gaborone

predecessor	Office	successor
Marius Haas	Ambassador to Ivory Coast 2008–2011	Stephan Keller
Annett Günther	Ambassador to Botswana 2017	Ralf Breth