Volker Stanzel

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Volker Stanzel, 2015

Volker Stanzel (born September 22, 1948 in Kronberg im Taunus ) is a retired German diplomat and former Political Director of the Foreign Office and former Ambassador to Beijing and Tokyo, who has been working, publishing and teaching in Berlin on political science topics since 2015.

He is married and has two children.

Career

The study of Japanese Studies , Chinese Studies and Political Science at the Universities of Frankfurt and Kyoto closed Stanzel 1980 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. at the University of Cologne .

After joining the Foreign Service in 1979, he was employed at the Embassy in Italy (Economic Department), at the Foreign Office in Bonn (Economic Department), at the Embassy in Japan (Press and Political Department) and at the Embassy in Hungary ( CSCE - Kulturforum).

From 1985 to 1987 Stanzel was chargé ( charge d'affaires ) at the embassy in South Yemen (Aden). He then worked again in the economic department of the Foreign Office before becoming Deputy European Correspondent in the Department for European Political Cooperation at the Foreign Office in Bonn in 1988.

From 1990 to 1993 Stanzel was head of press and public relations at the embassy in the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, he was head of the situation center of the Federal Foreign Office, before becoming a foreign policy advisor for the SPD parliamentary group in 1995 .

In 1998/99 Stanzel accepted a research assignment as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington.

He then returned to the Foreign Office as Head of the Unit for the Peaceful Use and Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Energy, before serving as Ministerial Director and Commissioner for Asia Policy at the Foreign Office from 2001 to 2002 . As such, he was a co-opted board member of the German Society for Asian Studies.

Until September 2004, Stanzel was Ministerial Director of Political Department 3 (Relations with the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia) in the Foreign Office. From September 2004 to 2007 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People's Republic of China .

Ambassador Volker Stanzel, 2013

In August 2007 he took over the position of Head of the Political Department and thus became Political Director of the Foreign Office.

From October 2009 to October 2013, Volker Stanzel was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan and then retired as a diplomat.

In 2014, Stanzel taught political science at Claremont McKenna College in California and at the University of California Santa Cruz. After returning to Berlin in 2015, he worked and taught on Sino-Japanese relations at the Free University of Berlin, and in 2016 he taught political science topics at Dokkyo University in Japan; Since 2017 he has been teaching on issues of reconciliation and society at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Since the end of 2015 he has been researching questions of modern diplomacy as a Senior Distinguished Fellow in the Asia research group of the Science and Politics Foundation . From 2015-2018 he was Senior Advisor of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and has been a Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations since 2015 ; since 2016 he has been a board member of the Academic Confucius Institute of the University of Göttingen and the German-Japanese Business Circle (DJW); he is on the advisory board of the Tibet Initiative Germany. In 2018/2019 he was Vice President of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP). On May 12, 2018, Stanzel took over the office of President of the Association of German-Japanese Societies .

Stanzel had been a member of the SPD since 1966 , until he left the Grand Coalition in 2013 after the membership decision. He has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

He publishes on political and Asian topics; his last book "The perplexed foreign policy and why it needs the support of society" was published in spring 2019 by Dietz-Verlag.

Publications (selection)

  • The perplexed foreign policy and why it needs the support of society . Bonn: Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., 2019, ISBN 978-3-8012-0554-6
  • (Ed. :) The new reality of foreign policy. Diplomacy in the 21st Century . Andrássy Studies on European Studies, Volume 24, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-5978-1 . (English, ISBN 978-3-8487-5776-3 )
  • Watanabe-sensei, Nihonjin ni totte tenno wa do iu sonzai desuka? Tokyo: Gentosha, 2017 (in Japanese)
  • Reconciliation and society. To overcome collective suffering . SWP Studies 2016 / S 11, June 2016 http://www.swp-berlin.org/publikationen/swp-studien-de/swp-studien-detail/article/aussoehnung_und_gesellschaft.html
  • Fallen out of time. The Tenno in the 21st century . OAG-Taschenbuch Nr. 103. Tokyo: Judicium (German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia), 2016, ISBN 978-3-86205-114-4
  • Doitsu-taishi mo nattoku shita, Nihon ga sekai de aisareru riyu . Tokyo: Gentosha, 2015, (in Japanese).
  • China's foreign policy. Paths of a reluctant world power , Munich / Vienna: Oldenbourg 2002, ISBN 3-486-25887-7 (published under the pseudonym Gustav Kempf).
  • In the wind of change. East Asia's new revolution . Bonn: Bouvier 1997, ISBN 3-416-02676-4 .
  • Japan, head of the earth , Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 1982, ISBN 3-88479-097-8 .

Web links

Commons : Volker Stanzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Resume. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the German Embassy Tokyo. Archived from the original on June 8, 2010 ; accessed on December 15, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Activity report for the years 2001 to 2002, German Society for Asian Studies ( Memento from September 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Arrival of Dr. Volker Stanzel in Tokyo ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Profile Volker Stanzel. In: Science and Politics Foundation. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New Vice President of DGAP: Ambassador a. D. Dr. Volker Stanzel . In: DGAP eV June 14, 2018 ( dgap.org [accessed September 6, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Board of Directors. In: Association of German-Japanese Societies. Accessed December 15, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Stanzel, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronberg im Taunus