New ambassadors in Moscow, Beijing and Tel Aviv – media report mentions all names | EUROtoday

According to info from “Spiegel”, Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) is appointing new heads of seven embassies at wage stage B9: Tel Aviv, Moscow, Mexico City, Madrid, Beijing, New Delhi and Brasília. In authorities circles it was stated that, on the suggestion of Wadephul (CDU), the common rotation was now united. The tableau needs to be determined within the cupboard this Wednesday.

According to “Spiegel” info, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, at the moment ambassador in Moscow, is to maneuver to Tel Aviv. Lambsdorff replaces Ambassador Steffen Seibert, who’s going into common retirement, in the important thing submit in Israel. Seibert, a former authorities spokesman below Chancellor Angela Merkel, took up his job in the summertime of 2022.

Ambassador Clemens von Goetze will probably be his successor in Moscow; he’s at the moment heading the illustration in Mexico City. He has beforehand served as ambassador in Tel Aviv, Beijing and Tokyo. The present ambassador to Madrid, Maria Margarete Gosse, will take over in Mexico City. She headed the central division of the Foreign Office in Berlin from 2018 to 2022.

Following you in Madrid, and this comes as a shock, is Ambassador Heiko Thoms. He solely took over the submit within the Ukrainian capital Kiev in the summertime at Wadephul’s request, after the federal authorities appointed Martin Jäger from there to go the Federal Intelligence Service. His successor in Ukraine has not but been determined within the cupboard.

The Foreign Office stays cautious

The administration of the New Delhi embassy additionally entails modifications within the administration stage of Boris Pistorius’s Federal Ministry of Defense: Jasper Wieck, at the moment Political Director within the Bendler Block, is returning to India, the place he was deputy ambassador from 2017 to 2020.

Wieck takes over in India from Philipp Ackermann, who’s transferring to Beijing as ambassador. Ackermann labored, amongst different issues, as an envoy in Washington and, till he moved to India, headed Political Department 3 within the Foreign Office, which is accountable for political relations with the nations of the Near and Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

His predecessor Patricia Flor would be the new German ambassador in Brasília. Before taking on the ambassadorship in China, she headed the European Union delegation in Tokyo and labored on the Foreign Office within the Department for International Order, the United Nations and Arms Control. She succeeds Ambassador Bettina Cadenbach, who’s retiring.

When requested by “Spiegel,” the Foreign Office stated that “numerous colleagues in the Foreign Office change positions every summer on the so-called uniform transfer date, including a large number of heads of German missions abroad.” The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations stipulates that the host nation should first learn a few deliberate posting of ambassadors and that the consent of the related host authorities should be obtained. This additionally corresponds to good diplomatic and protocol apply. “In order not to pre-empt the host country’s decision, we generally only confirm personal details after the host government has given its consent,” it stated.