Wolfgang Wiethoff

Wolfgang Wiethoff (born August 25, 1952 in Iserlohn ) is a former German diplomat who was last ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2015 to 2018 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Iserlohn in 1969, Wiethoff began studying social sciences and media sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , graduating with a diploma in 1978.

In 1981 Wiethoff began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its completion in 1982 initially worked at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and from 1982 to 1984 as an employee in the political department of the embassy in Zaire . He then worked in the economic and cultural department of the embassy in Ivory Coast between 1984 and 1987 and in the cultural department of the embassy in Finland from 1987 to 1990 , before being employed again in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1990 and 1994.

After Wiethoff worked in the cultural and press department of the embassy in Australia from 1994 to 1997 , he was head of the economics department at the embassy in Bulgaria between 1997 and 1999 and head of the political department of the Foreign Office from 1999 to 2001. Between 2004 and 2007 he was Head of Politics and Culture at the Embassy in Ireland and then between 2007 and 2009 Head of the Consular, Culture and Press Department at the Embassy in Estonia . After an assignment in the Foreign Office (2009–2012), Wiethoff moved to the embassy in Lithuania, where he worked until 2015.

From October 2015 to September 2018, Wiethoff was the successor to the retired Christian Rumplecker as the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sierra Leone .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Embassy Freetown ( Memento from March 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive )