Joachim Rücker

Joachim Rücker ( * May 30, 1951 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German politician ( SPD) and diplomat. From September 2006 to July 2008, he served as UN Special Envoy Head of UNMIK in Kosovo. He is married and has three children.

Joachim Rücker has a doctorate in economics. From 1979 to 1991 he worked for the Foreign Office, with stops in Bonn, Frankfurt, Vienna, Dar es Salaam and Detroit. Until 1993 he was a foreign policy adviser to the SPD parliamentary group. From 1993 to 2001, Mayor of the City regulator Sindelfingen. From 2001 to 2002 he was Ambassador and Deputy High Representative for finance and administration at the High Representative in Sarajevo ( Bosnia and Herzegovina) Office of the United Nations. He then returned to 2004 as Head of Finance and the Budget back to the Foreign Ministry. From 2005 he served as Special Representative of the United Nations economic reconstruction in Kosovo and was deputy Søren Jessen- Petersen, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of UNMIK. On 1 September 2006 he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as successor to the Danes and directed until July 2008, the transitional government in Kosovo. From November 2008 to September 2011, he was Ambassador of Germany in Sweden. Currently Rücker is chief inspector of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. On October 25, 2012, he was a candidate in the constituency 260 Böblingen nominated with 99.1 % of the votes of all present at the district general meeting of the SPD in Böblingen for the federal election of 2013.