Ambassador Dr. Norbert Baas

Curriculum vitae


Dr. Norbert Baas, born 29 April 1947 in Hamburg, Germany

married, two daughters

January 1967
Abitur at the Hamburg-Blankenese Gymnasium
1967-1970

Various apprenticeships in machine factories, studying engineering and economics in Hamburg and at the Technical University Berlin

1970-1975
Economic sciences, Technical University in Berlin
1975-1976
Johns-Hopkins-University Bologna
1976-1978
Research and ph.d. (history) at the European University Institute Florence
1978
Entry into the Federal German Foreign Office, Bonn
1980-1982
German Foreign Office, Bonn, CSCE-Department
1982-1985
OECD-Mission, Paris
1985-1986
German Embassy, Baghdad
1987-1991
German Foreign Office, Bonn, private Secretary to State Minister Möllemann and State Minister Schaefer
1989
Royal College of Defence Studies, London
1991-1995
German Embassy Moscow (political dept.)
1995-1998
Ambassador to Georgia
1998-2001
German Foreign Office, Berlin, Head of Department for Central Europe
2001-2003
German Foreign Office, Berlin, Ambassador-at-large for security policy
2002-2005
Co-Chairman of the German-Polish Intergovernmental Commission on regional cooperation
May 2003
German Foreign Office, Berlin, Ambassador, Special Envoy for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus
2006-2009
Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
October 2009
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Timor-Leste and ASEAN