Christoph Retzlaff

Christoph Retzlaff (born March 10, 1962 in Stuttgart) is a German diplomat. Edit LifeQualtext

Retzlaff studied legal science and modern and recent history in Freiburg. After the first legal state examination in Freiburg, he completed his legal practice from 1990 to 1993 in Berlin. He wrote his master's thesis in the History of Heinrich August Winkler on the subject of a state of emergency in the Weimar Republic. He left the second legal state exam in Berlin in July 1993.

Retzlaff began his diplomatic career in 1994 at the Embassy in Moscow. From 1997 to 2001, he was initially employed in the United Nations department and later in the personnel department. From 2001 to 2004 he was Deputy Ambassador at the Embassy of Yangon / Myanmar. In 2004, he returned to the Political Department of the Federal Foreign Office as Deputy Head of Unit for Central Asia and the South Caucasus. In 2008, he was transferred to the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York as an international lawyer and deputy head of the political department. In 2011 he was a member of the German team in the UN Security Council.

In 2011, Retzlaff returned as Head of Unit to the European Department of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, responsible for the principle of EU external relations and the EU's enlargement policy. In 2014 he was transferred to the Cairo Embassy as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador. Since July 2016 Christoph Retzlaff has been the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ghana. Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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