Stephan Keller (diplomat)

Stephan Keller (born January 26, 1946 in Landshut ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Sudan from 2005 to 2008 and to the Ivory Coast between 2008 and 2011 .

Life

After High School in 1966 and completing his military service in the army , he studied from 1968 to 1973 law at the University of Geneva , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and the University of Kiel . He completed his studies in 1973 with the first and 1977 with the second state examination in law. In 1977 he was with the work Legal problems of forced modernization of old buildings doctorate .

In 1977 he entered the diplomatic service and after completing his training as an attaché in 1979 he was employed at the embassy in Tanzania and then from 1982 to 1985 as a cultural attaché at the embassy in France . During this time he was also employed at the embassy in Italy in 1984 . After working at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn , he was head of the economic department at the embassy in Greece between 1988 and 1991 . After a renewed assignment in the Federal Foreign Ministry, he was from 1994 to 1996 chargé d' affaires of the German delegation at the UN disarmament conference in Geneva .

He was then chief of protocol in the Senate Chancellery of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen between 1996 and 1999 and then returned to the Federal Foreign Ministry. This was followed by a position as consul general in Jeddah from 2002 to 2005 .

In 2005 Stephan Keller succeeded Hans-Günter Gnodtke as ambassador to Sudan and held this office until he was replaced by Rainer Eberle in 2008.

As the successor to Marius Haas, he himself took over the post of Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Ivory Coast in 2008 . In 2011 he retired and was replaced as ambassador to the Ivory Coast by Karl Prinz , who was previously ambassador to Guinea .