Sabine Taufmann

Sabine Taufmann (* 1962 in Berlin ) is a German diplomat and was ambassador to Bahrain from 2011 to 2015 .

Life

After graduating from high school , Sabine Taufmann studied Romance , English and American studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 to 1984 and worked as an interpreter and translator until 1991 after completing her studies with a diploma . In 1991 she joined the foreign service and, after completing her career examination, worked from 1994 to 1995 as deputy head of department for families and women in the central department of the Foreign Office . After a subsequent assignment in the Political Department of the Embassy in Russia , she only worked in the Department for Economic and Financial Policy between 1990 and 2000 and then until 2003 in the Middle East Department at the Foreign Office in Berlin.

She was then appointed Permanent Representative of the Head of the Permanent Mission to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament (UNCD) before she was Deputy Head of the Department for the Middle East and the Maghreb in the Foreign Office between 2006 and 2010 .

After completing a one-year intensive language training in Arabic , Sabine Taufmann was ambassador to Bahrain from 2011 to 2015 as the successor to Hubert Lang , who was retired . Taufmann was replaced by Ambassador Alfred Simms-Protz , the current Ambassador.

Sabine Taufmann is married and has two children.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae ( memento of April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Embassy in Manama (archive version of April 13, 2012)