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Revision as of 07:23, 17 May 2018 by Legacypac (talk | contribs) (Legacypac moved page Thomas Götz (German diplomat) to Thomas Götz)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Thomas Götz (born 1953) is a senior German diplomat who has been serving as the Ambassador of Germany to the Kingdom of Norway since July 2016.
Early life and education
After graduating from Parler-Gymnasium in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1972 and his military service Thomas Götz took up his studies of German, English and American literature and linguistics at the University of Tübingen. In 1976 he attended Newastle University in Newcastle-upon-tyne. In 1979 he graduated from the University of Tübingen and started a traineeship as a teacher in Stuttgart. In 1998 his PhD dissertation was accepted by the University of Hagen.
Diplomatic career
He joined the Foreign Service in 1980; after finishing his diplomatic training at the Foreign Office in Bonn he worked as a junior diplomat at the Federal Chancellery from 1982-1983 serving both Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Later his diplomatic postings abroad included Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bucharest, Geneva and Athens. At headquarters he developed expertise for research and academic relations policy and was the Ministry´s Deputy Director-General for Culture and Communications from 2008-2011. At the same time he served as the Vice-Chair of the German-American Fulbright-Programme.
He was appointed Ambassador to Finland in 2011 and to the Slovak Republic in 2014. Since July 2016 Thomas Götz has been serving as the Ambassador of Germany to the Kingdom of Norway in Oslo.
Personal Life
Ambassador Götz was bestowed with the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece in 2002 and received an Honorary Doctorate through the Åbo Akademi – the Swedish University in Turku, Finland in 2014.
His personal interests include literature, music, and biking.
He has been married to Claudia Götz since 1983; the couple has one grown-up daughter.
References
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