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Ambassador Matei Hoffmann arrives in Sarajevo today to take up his duties as
the new Senior Deputy High Representative in BiH. Hoffmann has left Prizren
where he had served as Head of the German Federal Government's Civilian
Coordination Office for Kosovo. He replaces Hanns Schumacher who has
recently been appointed Deputy Chief of Mission of the German UN Mission in
New York.
Hoffmann, who holds a doctorate in law, can look back on close to 20 years
of experience in the German Foreign Service. Assignments abroad included
Washington, Porto Alegre, Paris and - as Deputy Chief Mission - Rome. In
Bonn he has served - inter alia - as Personal Assistant to the State
Secretary of the German Foreign Office and as Head of the Office of former
Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the Federal Chancellery.
Dr. Matei Hoffmann
Curriculum Vitae
Born 19 October 1951 in Bucharest
Married to Dr. Roswitha Hoffmann, two children
Attended school in Bucharest, Frankfurt am Main, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Read law and political science in Marburg and Geneva.
First State Law Examination 1975, doctoral studies scholarship from the
German National Scholarship Foundation, research work at the Pontifica
Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (1976/77). Ph.D. 1979 (Marburg,
m.c.l.). Second State Law Examination 1979.
Professional Career
1975/76 and 1979/1980 Academic assistant in the Institute of Comparative
Law, Anglo-American and General Departments, Marburg University
1980 Entered the German Foreign Service
1982 Completed Foreign Service training
1982/85 German Embassy Washington, Personal Assistant to the Ambassador and
Political Affairs officer
1985/86 German Consulate-General Porto Alegre, Brazil
1986/89 Foreign Office, Central Directorate-General
1989/91 Personal Assistant to the State Secretary
1991/93 German Embassy Paris, Head of the Press and Public Relations Section
1993/94 Federal Chancellery, Head of Division, European Affairs and
Bilateral Relations, Western Europe, Turkey and WEU
1994/96 Head of the Chancellor's Office, Federal Chancellery
1 August 1996 German Embassy Rome, Minister-Counsellor
3 September 1998 - 31 December 1998 German Embassy Rome, Chargé
d'Affaires ad interim
Since June 1999 Head of the Civilian Coordination Office for Kosovo of the
German Federal Government
OHR Press Release, Sarajevo, 20 July 1999
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