Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel

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Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel (born 17 July 1953, Minden) is a German diplomat. She was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in various countries between 2008 and 2019, most recently in Myanmar.

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Life

From 1975 to 1979, she studied applied linguistics and development economics at the Heidelberg University; from 1980 to 1982, she studied African studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1983 to 1984, she taught English. and worked in the international office of the University of Mannheim .

In 1984 Janetzke-Wenzel joined the Federal Foreign Office. She completed the career test in 1986, and initially worked in the departments of human rights, the United Nations and the crisis response center. From 1987 to 1992 she worked at the Embassy in Dar es Salaam and Vienna, and from 1995 to 1998, at the Embassy in Washington, D.C. [1] From 1998, she worked in the Berlin in the areas of international university relations. From 2001 to 2004, she was the head of the personnel department for the civil service. From 2004 to 2007, she was Director for African Affairs at the Federal Foreign Office. [2] [3] [4] [5] From 2007, she was a guest lecturer at Andrássy University Budapest. [6]

From 2008 to 2011, she was ambassador to Hungary. [7] [8] From 2011 to July 2014, she was ambassador to Nigeria, until she was replaced by Michael Peter Zenner.

She became ambassador to Finland in 2014, [9] succeeding Thomas Götz, who in turn became ambassador to Slovakia. From 2017 to 2019, she was anbassador to Myanmar. [10] [11] [12] Her successor in Myanmar was Thomas Karl Neisinger.

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  2. ↑ Partnership Agreement ACP-EC: Signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 : Revised in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. 2007. ISBN   978-92-79-07071-6.
  3. ↑ Afrika: Europas verkannter Nachbar (in German). Peter Lang. 2007. ISBN   978-3-631-55543-9.
  4. ↑ Department, African Union Economic Affairs; Affairs, African Union Commission Department of Economic (2007). Follow-up of the Africa-Europe Summit: Catalogue of the Commitments from Cairo (2000) to Lisbon (2007). Economic Affairs Department.
  5. ↑ The Indian Ocean Newsletter. Indian Ocean Information and Documentation Bank (B.I.D.O.I.). 2006.
  6. ↑ "AUB Pressemitteilungen / AUB". Andrássy Universität Budapest. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  7. ↑ "In Historic Visit, Nobel Laureate Wiesel Returns to Hungary". chabad.org. December 9, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-12-13.
  8. ↑ András, Dull Szabolcs, Dezső (2015-07-22). "A kém, aki jól fekszik Orbánnál". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  9. ↑ "Hetzner Finlandin ensimmäisen datakeskusken peruskivi muurattiin Tuusulassa". News Powered by Cision (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  10. ↑ "Senior General Receives Outgoing German Ambassador - Global New Light Of Myanmar". 16 August 2014. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  11. ↑ "Rakhine situation 'deeply worrying': German Ambassador". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  12. ↑ "Fresenius Medical Care opens office in Myanmar". www.biospectrumasia.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
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