Thomas Runner

Thomas M. Läufer (born May 13, 1945 in Leipzig ) is a German diplomat and was ambassador at the German Embassy in The Hague , Netherlands from 2006 to September 2010 .

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After his high school runners initially began training at the Foreign Office and the Consulate General in Turkey's Izmir . From 1970 to 1975 he studied law and political science in Bonn . He then studied European law in Bruges . He returned to the University of Bonn as a research assistant at the chair for international law of Professor Christian Tomuschat . 1989 doctorate he in Bonn to Dr. jur. .

In 1978 he began his preparatory service as an attaché for the Foreign Service . From 1980 to 1981 he worked in the European Department in the Foreign Office before moving to the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva until 1984 . Following this assignment, he first returned to the Political Department, then back to the European Department of the Foreign Office and then from 1987 worked in the planning staff of the Foreign Office. From 1988 to 1998 he worked in the presidential office of the German Bundestag , which he took over in 1992 under Rita Süssmuth . As envoy and permanent representative , he finally went to Warsaw until 2002 before returning to Berlin, where the Federal Foreign Office had meanwhile moved with the German government. There he initially headed the International Personnel Office and then from 2002 to 2006, as Ministerial Director and international law advisor, the legal department. From July 2006 to September 2010 Thomas Läufer was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of the Netherlands . His successor there is Heinz-Peter Behr.

Läufer is married to Anne Läufer and has three children.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Läufer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Spiegel Online from January 12, 2010: Dutch people will not allow German ambassadors to celebrate war

predecessor	Office	successor
Edmund Duckwitz	German Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands 2006–2010	Heinz-Peter Behr