Wilfried Grolig

Wilfried Grolig (born March 15, 1949 in Friedberg (Hesse) ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Finland from 2007 to 2010 and then ambassador to Brazil between 2010 and 2014 .

Life

After graduating from high school , he studied law between 1968 and 1973 and then passed the first state examination in law and, after completing his legal preparatory service, the second state examination in 1977.

In 1978 he entered the diplomatic service and, after completing his training as an attaché, was employed at the embassy in Zaïre from 1980 to 1983 and then in Morocco . After working at the headquarters of the Foreign Office from 1986 to 1988, he worked for the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City . In 1992 he returned to the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, where he was deputy head of department until 1995.

After taking part in a Siemens training course in Munich , he was permanent representative of the ambassador in Indonesia from 1995 to 1998 and was then head of division in the Foreign Office. After working as a sub-department head in the central department from 2001 to 2002, he was head of the culture and education department of the German Foreign Office between 2002 and 2007 and was therefore responsible for foreign cultural policy .

In 2007 he succeeded Hanns Heinrich Schumacher as ambassador to Finland and handed over this office to Peter Scholz in 2010 .

He himself was in 2010 as successor to the retiring came Friedrich Prot Kunow of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brazil appointed. In 2014 he was retired and replaced as Ambassador to Brazil by Dirk Brengelmann , who was previously the special representative for cyber foreign policy at the Federal Foreign Office.

Web links

• Website of the German Embassy in Brazil ( Memento from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Prot von Kunow	German Ambassador to Brazil 2010–2014	Dirk Brengelmann