Hansjörg Haber (born 21 February 1953) is a former German diplomat. From 2015 to 2016 he was head of the Delegation of the European Union in Turkey, and served as Ambassador of the

Federal Republic of Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

from 2017 to October 2018. After graduating from

Atlantic College Atlantic College (formally the United World College of the Atlantic; alternatively styled UWC Atlantic College, UWCAC, or UWCA) is an independent boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of ...

in Wales, he studied economics at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, where he also worked as a research assistant before joining the German Foreign Service. He held diplomatic roles in Paris, Bern, Moscow, Manila, and Ankara, Beirut, Cairo, Prague, Sana'a, in the German

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in Bonn and Berlin, and various roles for the

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. He is married to the diplomat

Emily Haber Emily Margarethe Haber (''née'' Oncken; born in 1956) is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018: from 2011 to 2013, at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2014 to 2018, at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. She is ...

, with whom he has two children.

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1953 births Living people German diplomats People educated at Atlantic College People educated at a United World College Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni {{Germany-diplomat-stub Ambassadors of Germany to Yemen