Walter Jürgen Schmid

Walter Jürgen Schmid ( * November 24, 1946 in Esslingen ) is a German diplomat.

Life

Walter Jürgen Schmid made ​​after graduating from high school from 1966 to 1967 his military service. He studied from 1968 to 1973 Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and the University of Aix -en- Provence. From 1973 to 1975 he was court clerk and became the Dr. jur. doctorate.

His service in the Foreign Office, he began in 1976 as Attaché. Subsequently, he was personal assistant to Minister of State Klaus von Dohnanyi. His first stop was the foreign embassy in Montevideo in Uruguay before 1982 in the German Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, changed. From 1986 to 1991 he was Executive Director in the Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. His first post as ambassador took him from 1992 to 1994 in Guinea Conakry. In 1995 he spent a year at the Royal College of Defence Studies ( RCDS ) in London. In the Disarmament Department of the Foreign Office he worked until 2000 before he was appointed first deputy commissioner and finally in 2003 to the Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control.

From July 2005 to early 2010 was Walter Jürgen Schmid German Ambassador in Moscow, where he was replaced by Ulrich Brandenburg.

In September 2010, he followed Hans -Henning Horstmann as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Holy See and presented Pope Benedict XVI. on 13 September of the same year in Castel Gandolfo his credentials. Schmid has 7 October 2011 personally by Pope Benedict XVI. adopted and went into retirement. He was succeeded by Reinhard Schweppe.

Schmid is married to Livia Vergallo -Schmid.