Thomas Hermann Master

Thomas Hermann Master

Thomas Hermann Meister (born July 14, 1955 in Duisburg ) is a German diplomat and was ambassador to Iceland from 2012 to 2015 .

Life

After graduating from high school , he began studying economics at the Duisburg University in 1974 and graduated in 1980 with a degree in economics . He then briefly began studying history , Romansh languages and literature , but then joined the Foreign Service in 1981 and, after completing his attaché training, became legation secretary in the Department of Disarmament and Arms Control at the Foreign Office in 1983 .

After serving as Legation Counselor at the Embassy in Australia between 1984 and 1987 , he became Legation Counselor First Class and Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Uganda , before he was Lecturer in the European Department of the Foreign Office from 1989 to 1993 . Subsequently, he was first head of the cultural department of the Consulate General in New York City and then from 1996 to 1999 deputy head of the Department for International Technology Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office.

Between 1999 and 2003, Meister was Consul General in Recife and then Counselor First Class and Head of the Political Department of the Embassy in Spain . In 2006 he returned to the Foreign Office, where he was a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council and head of the Department for International Energy Policy . Between 2009 and 2012 he was ambassador to New Zealand . With this capacity, he also served as ambassador to Tonga , Samoa , Fiji , Kiribati , Tuvalu and the Cook Islands accredited , and also general in American Samoa .

Meister was then Ambassador to Iceland from 2012 to 2015 . His successor there was then Herbert Beck .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German Embassy in Iceland ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 48.4 kB)