Thomas Kurz (diplomat)

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Thomas Kurz (* 1961 ) is a German diplomat . He has been Ambassador to Rwanda since November 2019 .

Life

Thomas Kurz obtained his general university entrance qualification in Bad Kreuznach in 1981 and, after completing his civil service , studied German , philosophy and history in Freiburg and Paris . He completed his studies with a doctorate in history under Heinrich August Winkler and joined the Foreign Service in 1991 .

Kurz is married and has 3 children.

career

After completing his preparatory service for the higher foreign service , Kurz worked in the economic department of the Foreign Office from 1993 to 1994 , then moved to Kampala ( Uganda ) as deputy ambassador , returned to the Foreign Office in 1997, where he worked in the political department until 2000 Central Eastern Europe worked and moved to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OSCE in 2000. There he worked in the arms control sector.

After returning to the Foreign Office in 2003, he was initially deputy head of the legal department and in 2005 moved to the Federal Chancellery , where he was head of the BND's department until 2008, among other things . He was questioned about his work in this role in the NSA committee of inquiry in June 2015 .

In 2008, Kurz moved to the Federal Academy for Security Policy as Vice President , then headed the Kunduz branch of the embassy in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012 and then moved to the Ankara embassy as deputy head , where he stayed until 2015.

After another assignment as head of division in the Federal Foreign Office, Kurz was appointed ambassador to Rwanda in mid-2019 , based in Kigali . He succeeded Peter Woeste , who had to leave Rwanda after a diplomatic scandal .

literature

  • In short, Thomas: Hostile Brothers in the German Southwest: Social Democrats and Communists in Baden and Württemberg from 1928 to 1933 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08524-8 (Zugl .: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 1994).
  • Thomas Kurz: "Blutmai". Social Democrats and Communists at the focus of the Berlin events of 1929. With a foreword by Heinrich August Winkler . Dietz (Nachf.), Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-8012-0131-9

Web links

  • Resume. (PDF) In: Website of the German Embassy in Kigali. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  • Short résumé. (PDF) In: Minutes of the 52nd meeting of the NSA committee of inquiry. P. 7 , accessed on March 24, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Message in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT 04.12.2019 S1
  2. ^ Minutes of the 52nd meeting of the 1st committee of inquiry of the 18th electoral term (NSA committee of inquiry). (PDF) June 11, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME In short, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1961