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Andreas Michaelis
Andreas Michaelis (born 24 July 1959 in Hanover, Germany) is a German diplomat who served as State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 3 January 2022, and was previously the German Ambassador to the Court of St James from May 2020 until January 2022. Since August 2023, he has been the German Ambassador to the United States. Early life and education After attending school in Hanover and completing his military service, he studied in Hanover and Oxford, gaining a Master's and a Master of Letters. Career Michaelis joined the German diplomatic service in 1989. From 1991 to 1992 he worked in the office of Minister of State Helmut Schäfer at the Federal Foreign Office, and from 1992 to 1995 he was First Secretary Political Affairs at the German Embassy in Tel Aviv. From 1995 to 1998 he was in the Human Rights Task Force at the Federal Foreign Office. Under Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he served from 1998 as Deput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Ambassador To The United States
Germany and the United States have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871. Prior to that, the only German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.S. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853.A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: Hanseatic Republics', Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. Relations were broken twice (1917 to 1921, 1941 to 1955) while Germany and the United States were at war. Envoys and ministers of German states Ministers of Prussia to the United States *1817–1823: Friedrich von Greuhm *1825–1830: Ludwig Niederstetter; ''Chargé d'Affaires'' *1834–1844: Friedrich Ludwig von Rönne *1844–1848: Friedrich von Gerolt *1848–1849: Friedrich Ludwig von Rönne (October 1848 - December 1849; (January 26 - December 21, 1849) simultaneously "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for the Central G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German retired politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the Schröder government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on 22 November 2005. In September 2010 he supported the creation of the Spinelli Group, a europarliamentarian initiative founded with a view to reinvigorate efforts to federalise the European Union. Early life Fischer was born in Gerabronn in Württemberg-Baden, the third child of a butcher, whose family had lived in Budakeszi, Hungary, for several generations. Fischer's family had to leave Hungary in 1946 after it was occupied by the Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of Protocol Of The United States
In the United States, the chief of protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, and the United States secretary of state on matters of national and international diplomatic protocol. The chief of protocol holds the rank of Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State. Duties The chief arranges itineraries for foreign dignitaries visiting the U.S. and accompanies the president on all official international travel. Additionally, the office is responsible for accrediting foreign diplomats and publishing the list of foreign consular offices in the U.S., organizing ceremonies for treaty signings, conducting ambassadorial swearing-in and state arrival ceremonies, and maintaining Blair House, the official guest house for state visitors. The chief of protocol duties include being present at the annual State of the Union speech (SOTU) given by the president each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annalena Baerbock
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (; born 15 December 1980) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party serving as Germany's minister for foreign affairs since 2021. From 2018 to January 2022, Baerbock served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Robert Habeck. She was the party's candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal election, making her the first such candidate for the Greens and, after Angela Merkel, only the second woman to be selected by a party as its candidate for chancellor by a major German political party. However, after the backlash she received due to a series of scandals involving her acts of plagiarism and exaggeration of her professional background in her CV, Olaf Scholz from SPD secured the chancellery instead. After the election, the Greens formed a traffic light coalition led by Olaf Scholz, and Baerbock was sworn in as Germany's first female foreign minister on 8 December 2021. Born in Hanover, West Germany, in 1980, Baerbock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Berger
Miguel Berger (born 14 January 1961 in Madrid, Spain) is a German diplomat and has been German Ambassador to the United Kingdom in London since May 2022. He was State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office from 2020 to 2021. Biography Berger studied economics and joined the German diplomatic service in 1988. After his training, he worked from 1990 to 1993 as a consultant for the German minority in Romania at the German Embassy in Bucharest. From 1993 to 1997, he was a press and political officer at the German Embassy in Mexico City. He then moved to the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Office. From 1997 to 1999, he worked there as a consultant in the Parliamentary and Cabinet Division in Bonn, before becoming deputy director of the same division in Berlin at the Haus am Werderschen Markt from 1999 to 2002. From there, he moved to New York City, New York, where he was deputy director of the Economic Department at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations until 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of German Ambassadors To The United Kingdom
Germany and the United Kingdom have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871. Prior to that, the only List of historic states of Germany, German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.K. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853. Envoys of the German states Electorate of Saxony, Saxony *1671: ''establishment of diplomatic relations'' ;Envoys of the Electorate of Saxony *1699–1710: Karl Christian Kirchner *1710–1714: Charles Pierre d'Elorme *1714–1718: Georg Sigismund von Nostitz *1718–1718: Karl Philipp von Wartensleben-Flodroff *1718–1728: Jacques le Coq *1730–1732: Friedrich Carl von Watzdorf *1733–1733: Heinrich von Buenau *1733–1738: Johann Adolph von Loss *1739–1742: Adam Adolph von Utterodt *1742–1751: Karl Georg Friedrich von Flemming *1752–1757: Carl Ludwig Wiedmarckter (as ''chargé d'affaires'') *1757–1763: *1763–1763: Johann Georg von Einsiedel * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wittig
Peter Wittig (born 11 August 1954) is a former German diplomat and has been Germany's Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the United Kingdom from July 2018, to April 2020, after having served as Ambassador to the United States from 30 April 2014, to 20 June 2018 and Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2014. Early life and education Wittig studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Freiburg, University of Kent, and the University of Oxford. He has taught as an assistant professor at the University of Freiburg. Diplomatic career After joining the German foreign service in 1982, Wittig served as German ambassador to Lebanon and to Cyprus. In 2009 Wittig was appointed to serve as Germany's permanent representative to the United Nations. Wittig has served twice as the President of the United Nations Security Council, once in July 2011 and again in September 2012. Between 2011 and 2012, he headed among other committees the Al-Qaida S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Secretary Sherman Meets With German State Secretary Andreas Michaelis (52554996569) (cropped)
Deputy or depute may refer to: * Steward (office) * Khalifa, an Arabic title that can signify "deputy" * Deputy (legislator), a legislator in many countries and regions, including: ** A member of a Chamber of Deputies, for example in Italy, Spain, Argentina, or Brazil. ** A member of a National Assembly, as in Costa Rica, France, Pakistan, Poland or Quebec. ** A member of the Dáil Éireann (Lower House of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland) ** A member of the States of Guernsey or the States of Jersey elected by a parish or district ** Deputy (Acadian), a position in 18th-century Nova Scotia, Canada * Deputy Führer, a title for the deputy head of the Nazi Party * A subordinate ** Deputy premier, a subordinate of the Premier and next-in-command in the cabinet of the Soviet Union and its successor countries, including: *** First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union *** Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, a subordinate of the Premier and the First Deputy Premier and third-in- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Process
The Berlin Process is an intergovernmental cooperation initiative linked to the future enlargement of the European Union There are eight recognised candidates for membership of the European Union: Turkey (since 1999), North Macedonia (2005), Montenegro (2010), Serbia (2012), Albania (2014), Moldova (2022), Ukraine (2022), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2022). Koso .... It started with the 2014 Conference of Western Balkan States, Berlin, 2014 Berlin Conference, which was followed by the 2015 Western Balkans Summit, Vienna, 2015 Vienna Summit, the 2016 Western Balkans Summit, Paris, 2016 Paris Summit, the 2017 Western Balkans Summit, Trieste, 2017 Trieste Summit, the 2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, 2018 London Summit and the 2019 Western Balkans Summit, Poznań, 2019 Poznań Summit. The Berlin Process was initiated in order to consolidate and maintain the dynamics of the EU integration process in light of increased euroscepticism and the five-year moratorium on enlargement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Hecker
Jan Hecker (15 February 1967 – 5 September 2021) was a German lawyer and diplomat. He was an advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a judge at the Federal Administrative Court, as well as an adjunct professor at the European University Viadrina. He died shortly after taking office as German ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Life and education Hecker attended schools in Flensburg, Kiel, Wilhelmshaven and Oslo, Norway, achieving the abitur in Flensburg in 1986. Hecker, the son of a naval officer, served between 1986 and 1988 as a soldier in Eutin. He studied law and political science in Freiburg, Grenoble and Göttingen from 1988 to 1994, completing with an MA degree in 1994. He passed the second legal state exam in Berlin in 1996, followed by post-graduate studies at the University of Cambridge where he obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in 1997. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1997 on the subject of ''European integration as a constitution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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