Thomas Prinz (diplomat)

Thomas Prince

Thomas Prinz (born June 7, 1959 in Wetzlar ) is a German diplomat and crime novelist who has been Director General of the German Institute Taipei since 2018 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Prinz completed a degree in political science , history and literature at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , which he completed with the state examination. In 1989 he completed his doctorate in philosophy at the South Asia Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with the dissertation The History of the United National Party in Sri Lanka .

Diplomatic career

In 1990, Prinz began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation he was a consultant in the cultural department of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1992 and 1993 and then from 1993 to 1997 first secretary of the political department of the embassy in Romania . This was followed between 1997 and 2000 as first secretary of the cultural department of the embassy in Indonesia and from 2000 to 2005 as legation councilor in the European department of the Foreign Office in Berlin . In addition, between 1998 and 2005 he took part in numerous election observation missions of the European Union .

Prince then acted as Deputy Head of the Public Diplomacy Unit of the German EU Presidency in the Foreign Office between 2005 and 2007 and as Political Advisor to the commander of the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008 . He was then Counselor and Head of the Political Department of the Embassy in Japan between 2008 and 2010 and briefly Head of the Economic Department of the Consulate General in Shanghai in 2010, before he was Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Australia from 2010 to 2011 .

After his return to Germany, Prinz was Senior Political Advisor in the Strategy and Deployment Department at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin from 2011 to 2012 and Head of the Foreign Trade Promotion Department at the Foreign Office from 2012 to 2015.

In April 2015, Prinz succeeded Albrecht Conze as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bangladesh . In July 2018, he succeeded Martin Eberts as General Director at the German Institute Taipei and has since served as the diplomatic representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in Taiwan .

Writing career

In addition to his diplomatic career, Prinz is also active as a writer and has written several detective novels to date. In 1995 his first crime novel Mode, Murder and Models was published . This was followed by other crime novels such as Arrival in Bucharest in 2000 and Farewell to Jakarta in 2001 , some of which also deal with his diplomatic experiences and have the diplomat Charlotte Valentin as the main character, who solves criminal cases independently.

In 2005 his first so-called Hanseatic crime thriller Der Unterhaber der Hanse appeared , followed in 2006 by Das Silber der Ostsee , which dealt with several murders of fish traders and was set in the small town of Falsterbo in 1380 .

Publications

• The history of the United National Party in Sri Lanka , dissertation Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05567-3
• Mode, Mord und Models , Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-612-25109-0
• Arrival in Bucharest , Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-920862-63-5
• Farewell to Jakarta , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-920862-34-1
• The negotiator of the Hanse: a Hanse thriller , Hamburg 2005, new edition 2012, ISBN 3-434-52815-6
• The silver of the Baltic Sea: a Hanse thriller , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-434-52820-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Prinz in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV Thomas Prinz. In: German Institute Taipei. Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General Director Dr. Thomas Prince . German Institute Taipei . Archived from the original on August 2, 2018.
2. ↑ Arrival in Bucharest in krimi-Forum.de
3. ↑ farewell to Jakarta in krimi-Forum.de
4. ↑ The Silver of the Baltic Sea ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Table of contents)