Jörg Zimmermann (born 1944, in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany) is a German

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

, who served as Germany's

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to New Zealand from 2005 to 2009. He is also accredited as Ambassador to

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Career

Zimmermann has been employed in the

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since 1976, when he was appointed as the Economic Attaché at the German Embassy in Beijing,

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. He has held the following positions: * Press and Cultural Attaché in Manila, Philippines (1981–1984) * Assistant Head of the South East Asia Division of the Foreign (1984–1987) * Deputy Consul-General Osaka-

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

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(1987–1990) * Deputy head of the East Asia Division of the Foreign Office (1990–1994) * Deputy Head of Mission to the German Embassy in

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

, Algeria (1994 and 1995) * Consul-General to

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(1995–1997) * Head of the Foreign Affairs Department in the Office of the President of Germany (1998–2001) * Minister for Political Affairs at the German Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (2001–2005) Zimmermann took up his present post of Ambassador to Wellington in October 2005. Accredited to

, he duly presented his credentials to

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President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi on 25 January 2006.

Personal life

Zimmermann is married and has two children.

External links

German Embassy in Wellington - official website

Fiji Times
27 January 2006. 1944 births Living people Ambassadors of Germany to Fiji Ambassadors of Germany to New Zealand People from Neustadt an der Weinstraße {{Germany-diplomat-stub