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Ambassador Albrecht von Wittke
Born in Hamburg on July 21, 1966
Married, four children (two sons, two daughters)
Since 2026
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva/Switzerland
2024 to 2026
Consul General, German Consulate General Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
2023 to 2024
Political Advisor to the Commander of the German Bundeswehr Joint Operations Command in Schwielowsee near Potsdam
2020 to 2023
Head of Division for Conventional Disarmament, Arms Control and Confidence- and Security-Building Measures Worldwide as well as Preventive Arms Control at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
inter alia, from January 2022 to June 2023, Chair of the UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Conventional Ammunition Management.
2017 to 2020
Head of Division for Export Control of Dual-Use Goods and International Regimes in the Non-Conventional Sphere at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
2014 to 2017
Minister Counsellor in the Political Section of the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. /USA
2010 to 2014
Deputy Head of Division for Export Control of Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
2006 to 2010
Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva/Switzerland.
2003 to 2006
Head of the Economic Section, German Embassy Tel Aviv/Israel.
2000 to 2003
Desk Officer in the Division for EU Enlargement, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin.
1997 to 2000
Second Secretary for Press, Culture, Legal and Consular Affairs and EU Affairs, German Embassy Ljubljana/Slovenia
1996 to 1997
Desk Officer in the office of Minister of State Dr. Werner Hoyer, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn
1994 to 1996
Training for the Higher Foreign Service, Training Center of the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn
1987 to 1994
Studied economics and political science at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn (degree: Diplom-Volkswirt, 1994) and at Université Paris IX-Dauphine (degree: Maîtrise d'Économie Appliquée, 1991)
1985 to 1987
Training as reserve officer in the German Federal Armed Forces, Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 7, Augustdorf
1985
Baccalaureate at Max-Ernst-Gymnasium of the City of Brühl