Martin Kobler

Martin Kobler (* 1953 in Stuttgart ) is a German diplomat and since June 2013 head of the UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo.

Life

After graduating from the High Rhine -Gymnasium Waldshut in 1972 and the obligations of military service, he studied law, philology and Asian Indonesian State and Law of the Sea, before joining the Foreign Service in 1983. After working stations at the embassies in Cairo and New Delhi as well as a use in the Foreign Office from 1994 to 1997 he was head of the representative office of the Federal Republic of Germany in Jericho. From 1998 to 2000 he was deputy director, and from 2000 to 2003 Head of the Office of Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.

From August 2003 to August 2006 he was the successor of Paul Malt tooth as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Egypt. Was controversial at the same time sending his wife Brita Wagener ( previously Head of Unit in the Department of Global Issues, United Nations, Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Foreign Office ) as envoys and thus as representative of her husband at the German Embassy in Egypt.

From August 2006 to September 2007 was Kobler Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Iraq. From October 2007 to early 2010 was Kobler Head of the Department for Culture and Communication in the Foreign Office. In March 2010, he followed Peter W. Galbraith Assistant Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA ).

As UN Special Representative for Iraq and Head of the Assistance Mission of the United Nations in Iraq, it was from August 2011 to May 2013 Koblers task of coordinating the various activities of the organizations of the United Nations.

In June 2013 Kobler has been appointed head of the UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo.