Axel Weishaupt
Raimund Axel Weishaupt ( born April 23, 1945 in Lennep, † April 17, 2010 in Kinshasa ) was a German diplomat. From September 2007 until his death, he was Ambassador of Germany in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He died of a heart failure.
Training and Study
After graduation he studied law and a foreign language studies at the Universities of Hamburg, Berlin and Strasbourg. Later he completed courses in Lourenco Marques (Maputo / Mozambique ) and Denpasar (Indonesia). 1980, the Doctorate in Law. at the University of Hamburg.
External Action Service
After joining the Foreign Service in 1974 uses followed Consulate General in Porto Alegre (Brazil), the Foreign Office in Bonn (Speaker for Brazil), as well as the embassies in the Soviet Union ( Consul ) and Poland (consul ).
After working as a lecturer at the education and training center of the German Foreign Office in Bonn from 1985 to 1988 Weishaupt was first briefly chargé d'affaires at the Embassy in Yemen (Aden). Subsequently, he was from 1988 to 1990 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chad.
1990 Weishaupt financial support was at the embassy in Sudan. After that, he was from 1992 to 1996 chargé at the Embassy in Kazakhstan. In 1993 he was also briefly head of the Coordination Office in Mogadishu / Somalia.
From 1996 to 1999 he was General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Karachi, Pakistan before 1999, he was Special Inspector for the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. After that, he was from 2001 to 2003 Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saratov / Russia. From 2003 to 2004 he was head of the branch office of the German Embassy in Herat Afghanistan.
From 2004 to 2007 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Philippines. As head of the embassy, he was also accredited as Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau, based in Manila. Predecessor as Ambassador Herbert Jess was. Succeeded in this office in 2007, Christian -Ludwig Weber- Lortsch.