Rolf Welberts

Rolf Welberts (born January 1, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) is a German diplomat and was ambassador to Chad from 2018 to 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school , Welberts studied law from 1974 to 1979 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Geneva , the University of London and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and passed the First State Examination in 1979 . He then attended the Flechter School of Law and Diplomacy before completing a post-graduate degree in law at the University of Michigan Law School between 1980 and 1981 , which he completed in 1981 with a Master of Law (LL.M.). He then spent a year as a Summer Associate with Alston, Miller & Gaines law firm in Atlanta .

After his return to Germany, he attended the preparatory service for the senior foreign service between 1982 and 1984 and completed it in 1984 with the career test. After a subsequent assignment in the Foreign Office in Bonn , he worked at the Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris from 1985 to 1986 , before being employed at the Embassy in South Korea .

Thereupon Welberts was permanent representative of the ambassador in Ukraine between 1989 and 1992 and then again a member of staff at the headquarters of the Foreign Office. After working in the missions of the CSCE in Chișinău in 1993 and in Tbilisi from 1994 to 1995, he returned to the Federal Foreign Office for a short period of time before becoming a member of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City from 1995 to 1998 .

In 1998 he returned to Germany and worked in the Foreign Office as deputy head of department and then from 1999 to 2001 as a member of the newly established UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo . He was then head of NATO's information office in Moscow and then head of division at the Foreign Office from 2004 to 2007, before he was head of division at NATO's international staff in Brussels between 2007 and 2010 . After that, Welberts first worked at the permanent mission to NATO in Brussels and in 2011 for some time headed the branch in Juba , today's capital of South Sudan . Since September 2011, Rolf Welberts has succeeded Rainer Eberle , who in turn became ambassador in Libya , and ambassador in Sudan . From September 2016 he was special ambassador for the Nile Basin region at the Foreign Office in Berlin, before moving to Chad as ambassador in 2018 . There he was replaced by Jakob Haselhuber in 2019 .

On September 14, 2012, when the German embassy in Karthum was stormed by an agitated crowd and set on fire, Welberts was not on the embassy premises.

Web links

• Director of NATO's Information Office in Moscow. In: NATO Who's Who
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy in Khartoum ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Conflicts: German Embassy in Sudan attacked. In: Zeit Online. September 14, 2012, accessed September 19, 2017 .