Diplomat

A diplomat is a Government Commissioner, who represents his state in international law at the government level to foreign states or international organizations. He may be the head of a diplomatic mission or subordinate to this.

In the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany all seconded officers of the Foreign Service are entered for diplomats list of the receiving State in principle.

Training

Germany

German diplomats are usually trained in the Foreign Service Academy in Berlin- Tegel. The property includes the Villa Borsig Reiherwerder.

Those who have taken a career as a diplomat in the higher Foreign Service in the eye and be prepared for the next adjustment date for the one-year training in the academy Berlin- Tegel must bring the following requirements:

  • He must be a German within the meaning of Article 116 of the Basic Law.
  • He has completed a university degree show ( degrees in music and art schools as well as the financial statements of the Magisterium to secondary education are not enough. A bachelor's degree is in any case sufficient).
  • Newcomers are not accepted.
  • Command of English and French language ( minimum requirement). In French selection can be replaced by the UN official languages ​​Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish. But the latest in hiring sufficient knowledge of French are required.
  • Very good health (and possibly family members ).
  • One year full-time teaching in the Foreign Service Academy in Berlin- Tegel.

Those who pass the entrance test of the Foreign Office, the expected one year of full -time education in the school of diplomacy, which has moved from Bonn to Berlin -Tegel Ippendorf in 2006. Here are history, politics, law and economics on the timetable. This preparation service ends with the career examination; with the passing career examination, students are included in the higher Foreign Service. Diplomat in the sense of international law, however, only those who are then accredited to a German mission. In Germany, for example, used in the headquarters of the Foreign Office diplomats enjoy no immunity or other privileges.

Officials in the upscale foreign service need rather than a completed academic higher education, the college entrance or a high school. After successful completion of the selection competition to expect a three-year training at the Foreign Service Academy at the conclusion of their academic rank of graduate management host will be awarded (Department of Foreign Affairs). The study includes not only a thorough legal education, particularly in the areas of private international law, civil law, immigration and nationality law, constitutional and international law also lectures on history, business and economics as well as practical training sections at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, as well as a consular offices of the federal government.

After the so-called generalists principle the staff of the Foreign Office can be used at any place in the world and entrusted with any task their careers. A restriction to a specific work area or a specific region is not possible.

Austria

Prerequisites for admission to the Higher Foreign Service in the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs include:

  • The candidate should be an Austrian citizen.
  • He must either have a degree in law, social sciences and economics, or political science with a graduation ceremony. If this is not the case, the applicants the Diploma Course of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna or another similar post-graduate course at a foreign educational institution must complete for another completed study.
  • He needs to demonstrate both excellent English as well as French.
  • He must be based on the evaluation of an assessment center, both mentally and physically health, as well as standard character suitable for a service as a diplomat.

In the diploma course at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna interdisciplinary form, inter alia, in the fields of politics, international relations and the operation of international organizations, a focus on the training objective. In addition, an intensive language training in English and French language on the timetable. The language of instruction is English, but is supplemented by courses in German and French.

After taking in the Higher Foreign Service of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, the officer must complete a basic education. The first transfer to a diplomatic authority abroad takes place before the second, by the fourth year of service, in which case the service exam previously store.

Status

Not since the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 enjoy a right to diplomatic immunity: This was the common law for a long time. It means that they are protected but during the diplomatic mission of persecution, arrest, and from any other sovereign measure. They also have to pay any taxes in the receiving State. Diplomats get from their home country a power of attorney to represent their home country compared to other countries and especially for the negotiation and signing of international treaties.

Homer describes the diplomatic mission of Menelaus and Odysseus in Troy, in order to achieve the return of Helena. The proposal of Antimachus to kill the two ambassadors in violation of their immunity, was rejected by the Assembly of the Trojans with horror.

The traditional principle of immunity has been spelled out in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The service building and the private residence of a diplomatic be a popular misconception, according often referred to as " extraterritorial ". The offices and residential premises of the diplomats are only inviolable. Diplomats who are nationals of the " receiving State " are at the same time are called regnicoles. These diplomats enjoy immunity only in respect of their official acts. The possession of a diplomatic passport mediated, in itself, does not confer immunity, but only the Accreditation in a host country.

In war, diplomats are withdrawn for reasons of personal safety in general. In times of diplomatic upsets ambassadors or other diplomats are often recalled long or short term to manifest dissatisfaction of the sending State.

Known diplomats

Quotes

  • A diplomat is a gentleman who is considering twice before he says nothing. ( John Steinbeck )
  • Diplomacy is the art of concealing a hundred words what you could say a single word. ( Saint- John Perse, French poet and diplomat, 1887-1975 )
  • A diplomat is a man who openly states that he does not think. (Giovanni Guareschi )
  • A diplomat is a man who remembers the birthday of a lady and her age forgets. (Robert Frost )
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