Wolfgang Röhr

Wolfgang Röhr (born December 2, 1948 in Hamburg ) works at the Tongji University in Shanghai. He was a German diplomat and was Consul General in Shanghai until June 2014 .

Life

Röhr studied law at the universities of Hamburg , Tübingen and Geneva . At the same time as his legal clerkship in Hamburg and Rio de Janeiro, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Insurance Science at the University of Hamburg, where he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD.

In 1978 he entered the diplomatic service ; This was followed by assignments in the Foreign Office, with the delegation to the Disarmament Committee in Geneva and the Embassy in the People's Republic of China (Political Department). From 1989 to 1991 Röhr was head of the economic services of the embassy in Israel and then until 1996 deputy head of the unit for the implementation of disarmament treaties in Europe and deputy head of the unit for the law of the European Union .

In 1996 Röhr returned to the Embassy in the People's Republic of China as head of the Political Department. From 1999 to July 2002 he was Head of the East Asia Department in the Foreign Office and then Consul General in Shanghai, before becoming Ambassador and Head of the Germany-China Task Force at the Foreign Office in Berlin in 2007 .

From August 2010 to June 2014, Röhr was again Consul General in Shanghai. Since September 2014 he has been a research assistant at the German Research Center at Tongji University in Shanghai.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai

predecessor	Office	successor
Kurt Leonberger	German Consul General in Shanghai 2002–2007	Albrecht von der Heyden
Albrecht von der Heyden	German Consul General in Shanghai 2010–2014	Peter Rothen