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Consul General of Germany to speak at PLU
January 26, 2009
Consul General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette will speak Today, Jan. 26 starting at 4 p.m. in the UC Regency Room on “German-Jewish Relations Today.”
Faculty, staff and students are invited to this unique opportunity to listen to a high-ranking European diplomat.
Mr. Schuette previously spoke at PLU in October 2007. He has been the Consul General of Germany in San Francisco since 2005. The Consular District includes Northern California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Alaska and Wyoming.
Mr. Schuete was born in 1953 in Goslar, Germany. He studied German and Russian Philosophy and political science at Geottingen University in Germany and Ohio University in the United States and at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins in Italy.
He joined the German Foreign Service in 1981 and served in different functions in the Foreign Office in Bonn and later Berlin (as Deputy Head of Division for the Middle East Affairs and Head of Division for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova) as well as in the German Embassies in Moscow, Tel Aviv and Rome in the German Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Before becoming the Consul General in San Francisco, he spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., the American Jewish Committee in New York and the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley.
Mr. Schuette previously spoke at PLU in October 2007. He has been the Consul General of Germany in San Francisco since 2005. The Consular District includes Northern California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Alaska and Wyoming.
Mr. Schuete was born in 1953 in Goslar, Germany. He studied German and Russian Philosophy and political science at Geottingen University in Germany and Ohio University in the United States and at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins in Italy.
He joined the German Foreign Service in 1981 and served in different functions in the Foreign Office in Bonn and later Berlin (as Deputy Head of Division for the Middle East Affairs and Head of Division for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova) as well as in the German Embassies in Moscow, Tel Aviv and Rome in the German Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Before becoming the Consul General in San Francisco, he spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., the American Jewish Committee in New York and the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley.