Ute king

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Ute König (* 1960 in Duisburg ) is a German diplomat who has been ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago since 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979, Ute König began studying law at the University of Bielefeld , which she continued at the University of Lausanne and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and graduated in 1985 with the first state examination in law. After completing her legal clerkship from 1985 to 1988, she passed the second state examination in 1988.

In 1988, Ute König began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation was initially employed in the human rights department of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1989 and 1990 and then from 1990 to 1993 in the legal and consular department of the embassy in Israel . This was followed by a position in Department 2 - Abroad of the Federal President's Office between 1993 and 1994 and from 1994 to 1997 as a personal assistant to Federal President Roman Herzog .

Ute König then worked in the Political Department of the Embassy in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2000 and, after her return, from 2000 to 2004, Deputy Head of the Personnel Department at the Federal Foreign Office, before she was permanent representative of the Ambassador to Namibia between 2004 and 2008 . Subsequently, from 2008 to 2011 she was Head of the Germany Center of the Embassy in South Africa and, after her return, between 2011 and 2015, Head of the International Criminal Law Unit at the Foreign Office in Berlin .

From August 2015, Ute König succeeded Karl-Otto König , who in turn became Ambassador to Panama , and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Nicaragua . On November 5, 2015, she was received by the President of the Republic of Nicaragua , Daniel Ortega Saavedra , to present her credentials.

Since October 2019 she has been the ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago with her official seat in Port-of-Spain . She is also the diplomatic representative of Germany for Antigua and Barbuda , Barbados , Dominica , Grenada , Guyana , St. Kitts and Nevis , St. Lucia , St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname .

Web links

  • Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy Port-of-Spain. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT 11.11.2019 S1
  2. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT 23.11.2015 S1
personal data
SURNAME King, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg