Thomas Strieder

Thomas Strieder (born November 3, 1957 in Wuppertal ) is a German diplomat. From 2013 to 2016 he was ambassador to the Republic of the Congo and since August 2016 to the Republic of Burundi.

Life

Strieder attended the Wuppertal South High School . After graduating from high school (1977) and military service (captain d. R.), he studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he passed the first state examination in 1984.

During the legal clerkship he began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service in Bonn, during which he was seconded to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic in East Berlin for a few months . Strieder is one of the few diplomats from the Foreign Office still in active service who were employed in the West German Permanent Mission to the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall . After completing his career examination, he worked as a legation secretary at the German Embassy in Prague in 1989 . There he was one of the co-organizers of the accommodation of several thousand citizens of the German Democratic Republic who had sought refuge in the building of the German Embassy in Prague in August 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall . This was followed by uses at the diplomatic missions in Poland, Egypt, Afghanistan and Indonesia. In 1990 Strieder was responsible for establishing the German Consulate General in Wroclaw in Poland. In Afghanistan, in 2006, he headed the branch of the German Embassy in Kabul in what was then a military camp (Provincial Reconstruction Team) in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan .

In 2009 Strieder became permanent representative at the German embassy in Skopje / Macedonia . From December 2012 to March 2013 he was charge d'affaires ad interim at the Embassy in Bamako / Mali and coordinated there rescuing 5,000 Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu of Islamist fanatics.

In 2012 Strieder was responsible for the conclusion of the government agreement between Germany and Israel to promote the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

Strieder was appointed ambassador to the Republic of the Congo on August 10, 2013 and subsequently head of the German Embassy in Bujumbura ( Republic of Burundi ) on August 2, 2016 . On October 20, 2016, he was received by the President of the Republic of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza , to present his credentials. With the reopening of the embassy in the capital Brazzaville in 2013, Strieder was the first German ambassador to the Republic of the Congo after 17 years since this diplomatic mission was closed due to the civil war in 1997.

See also

• List of German ambassadors in the Republic of the Congo
• List of heads of state of the Republic of the Congo

Web links

• Thomas Strieder is our man in Brazzaville . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of August 13, 2013
• Ambassador Thomas Strieder: Refugees as Germany's capital . In: Cronenberg Week of September 20, 2015
• German unity: Thomas Strieder next to Genscher on the balcony . In: Cronenberg Week of October 3, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ A megaphone for the minister. on the homepage of the Federal Foreign Office on September 30, 2013 (page accessed on December 14, 2015)
2. ↑ Excerpts from diary entries in: Die deutsche Einheit. The Foreign Office, the GDR Foreign Ministry and the two-plus-four process. ed. on behalf of the Institute for Contemporary History, 2015, Doc. 12, pp. 110–114.
3. ↑ Fit for Europe - completion of the “Train4EU” multiplier program in Skopje. on the homepage of the Institute for Cross-Border Cooperation (2009).
4. ↑ Taken from the fire. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 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. In: cultural exchange. (Edition 3/2013). 
5. ↑ Taken out of the fire ( Memento of the original from December 22, 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. on the homepage of the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa). 
6. ↑ Ambassador Strieder presented credentials in Brazzaville / Congo. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 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. In: Federal Gazette . from January 9, 2014. 
7. ↑ German representations abroad . In: Diplomatic Magazine 9/2013.