Ulrich Brandenburg

Ulrich Brandenburg

Ulrich Brandenburg (born October 12, 1950 in Münster ) is a German diplomat who was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Russia from 2010 to 2013 and to Portugal from 2014 to 2016 .

career

In 1970 Brandenburg obtained his general higher education entrance qualification in Münster in Westphalia, did his alternative service from 1970 to 1972 and began studying Romance and Slavic languages in 1972 with a stay abroad at the Sorbonne . During this time he was also active in the German Esperanto Youth (Brandenburg speaks Esperanto as a mother tongue); 1974 to 1975 he was its federal chairman. After the 1st state philological examination in 1977, the preparatory service for teaching at grammar schools followed in 1978 , which he successfully completed in 1980 with the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools.

In 1980 he entered the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and passed the career test for the higher foreign service in 1982 . From 1982 to 1984 he was employed at the embassy in Baghdad in Iraq and from 1984 to 1986 he was permanent representative at the consulate general in Leningrad in the Soviet Union . From 1986 to 1988 he worked at the embassy in Moscow (Soviet Union) and from 1988 to 1991 at the Foreign Office in Berlin.

Between 1991 and 1992 Brandenburg took part in the Fellows program at Harvard University in Boston . He then returned to the Federal Foreign Office from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 1999 he was on leave to work as the head of the “Partnership and Cooperation Section” in NATO's international staff in Brussels and was then head of a section in the Political Department at the Foreign Office until 2001 and from 2001 to 2003 he was appointed to Russia , the Caucasus and Central Asia in the Foreign Office. From 2003 to 2007 he was Deputy Head of the Political Department of the Federal Foreign Office. In August 2007 he was appointed permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the North Atlantic Council in Brussels ("NATO ambassador").

From 2010 to 2013 Ulrich Brandenburg was the German ambassador in Moscow as the successor to Walter Jürgen Schmid . As part of the Year of Germany in Russia , he succeeded in bringing the United Buddy Bears exhibition to St. Petersburg in the summer of 2012 and a year later - at the end of the year of cultural friendship - to present it in Yekaterinburg .

Brandenburg was the German ambassador in Lisbon from 2014 to 2016.

Private

Brandenburg is married and has two grown children. On June 4, 2017, he was elected chairman of the German Esperanto Association at the 94th German Esperanto Congress in Freiburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ filolingvia.com
2. ↑ Goethe-Institut Russia: Year of Germany in Russia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ TV report, June 21, 2013
4. ↑ herzberg.de "Ulrich Brandenburg new chairman of the German Esperanto Association"

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