Stefan Friedrich Keil
(20 March 1958 – 16 December 2021) was a German diplomat. After positions in Moscow, Prague,
Yekaterinburg and
Donetsk, he served last as ambassador of Germany to
Jamaica.
Career
Born in
Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...
, he studied law from 1980, completing his first
state exam in 1985, and his second in 1988. He was promoted to the
doctorate in 1993. Simultaneously, he prepared for higher foreign service from 1989 to 1990, and then worked for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...
in Berlin.
From 1991 to 1993, Keil was a representative at the German consulate in
Karachi. He was a member of the delegation to the
Geneva Disarmament Conference until 1997. He worked at the German embassy in
Moscow from 2000 to 2004,
where he began to learn Russian,
and at the embassy in
Prague from 2008 to 2011. He then represented Germany at the
OECD in Paris as part of a permanent delegation.
From 2015, he was Consul General in
Yekaterinburg,
where in one of his first appearances he dressed as
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-da ...
at the European Christmas market.
He worked towards a closer economic collaboration of the
Tyumen region and Germany, in contact with governor
Aleksandr Moor
Aleksandr Viktorovich Moor (russian: Александр Викторович Моор; born on 6 January 1974), is a Russian politician who is currently the 5th Governor of Tyumen Oblast from 14 September 2018.
He was also the Member of the Pres ...
.
From 2019, he was head of the consulate in
Donetsk. On the
International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2021, he spoke at the Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust studies, Tkuma, and at the museum for Jewish history and Holocaust in
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
.
Keil was the from August 2021 until his death.
Keil was married and the couple had two children.
On 16 December 2021, at the age of 63, he suddenly fell ill at work at the embassy in
Kingston
Kingston may refer to:
Places
* List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated:
** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
.
He was taken to Andrews Memorial Hospital, and pronounced dead upon arrival.
References
External links
German Ambassador Presents Credentialskingshouse.gov.jm 14 September 2021
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keil, Stefan
1958 births
2021 deaths
People from Regensburg
Jurists from Bavaria
Ambassadors of Germany to Jamaica
German diplomats