Werner Wnendt

Werner Wnendt ( born March 15, 1952 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German diplomat who is ambassador to Canada since September 2012.

Life

Wnendt completed after high school from 1972 to 1976 a study of the earth sciences and law at the Ruhr- University Bochum and graduated with a Master of Arts in Earth Sciences from trade. He then worked 1976-1978 at the German Society for Technical Cooperation ( GTZ) in a project on tin and tungsten deposits in Myanmar and following 1979 as assistant in the section management of mineral resources in the Department of Geosciences in Hannover.

1980 Wnendt joined the Foreign Service and was on completion of the career examination for the higher foreign service in 1982 Second Secretary at the Embassy in Kenya and member of the German delegation at the annual conferences of the United Nations (UNEP ) environmental program. Shortly afterwards, however, he was 1982 First Secretary at the Embassy in Pakistan where he was responsible for development programs and the aid program for refugees from Afghanistan.

Between 1985 and 1989 acted as a consultant for Wnendt European integration policy in the European and Planungsabteilunh the Foreign Office in Bonn and subsequently from 1989 to 1991 as Permanent Representative of the Head of the Consulate General in Miami. Then he took over from 1991 to 1995 the position as Speaker of the Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Representation to the European Union and at this time was also a member of a working group for the peace process in the former Yugoslavia.

After Wnendt was head of the Office of the State Minister for European Integration at the Foreign Office between 1995 and 1998, he served from 1998 to 2000 as Deputy Head of Mission in the Czech Republic and then between 2000 and 2003 as a foreign policy adviser to the Federal President. During his time in the Czech Republic he wrote in 1999 with Harald Salfellner a presentation of the history of the settled in the Lobkowitz Palace German Embassy in Prague and was on 5 November 2001 an honorary Officer of the National Order of Merit of Malta appointed.

Subsequently, he was from August 2003 to May 2005 Deputy High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Senior Deputy High Representative) in Sarajevo and then head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE ) Mission in Kosovo.

Upon completion of this activity Wnendt 2007 was deputy head of the Department of Culture and Communication of the Foreign Office and Commissioner for German as a foreign language before he was Head of the Department of Culture and Communications between 2010 and 2012 and thus significantly influenced the foreign cultural policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. During this time he was also a member of the Foundation Board of the Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad.

In September 2012, Wnendt Ambassador to Canada, where he became the successor to Georg Witschel, which in turn became the new ambassador to Indonesia and is accredited as such at the same time as ambassador to East Timor.

Publications

• The Lobkowicz Palace in Prague: a place of German history in Prague, co-author Harald Salfellner, Prague 1999, ISBN 80-85938-65-0