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Ambassador Dr. Rüdiger Lotz
Deutscher Botschafter Dr. Rüdiger Lotz © German Embassy Dhaka
Dr. Rüdiger Lotz is German Ambassador to Bangladesh
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Rüdiger Lotz
born 19 May 1965 in Berlin
married with 2 children
| since July 2025 | Ambassador in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 2022 - 2025 | Consul General in Karachi, Pakistan |
| 2018 - 2022 | Deputy Head of Mission and Head of the Economics and Global Issues Department, German Embassy Pretoria, South Africa |
| 2016 - 2018 | Regional Coordinator for Refugees and Migration, German Embassy Ankara |
| 2017 - 2018 | additionally: Head of the Economic Section, German Embassy Ankara |
| 2013 - 2016 | Head of Division for Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2010 - 2013 | Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy Bogotá, Colombia |
| 2010 | Deputy Head of Mission, German OSCE Mission, Vienna |
| 2008 - 2010 | Head of the Political Department of the International Civilian Office (ICO), Pristina, Kosovo |
| 2006 - 2008 | Head of the Iraq Unit, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2003 - 2005 | Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan |
| 2001 - 2002 | Political Advisor, Office of the EU Special Representative, Skopje |
| 1997 - 2000 | Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy Belgrade, Serbia |
| 1995 - 1997 | Desk Officer Consular, Press and Culture Affairs, German Embassy Lima, Peru |
| 1994 - 1995 | Public Relations Division, German Federal Foreign Office, Bonn |
| 1993 - 1994 | Diplomatic Academy, Bonn |
| 2006 | Master of Public Administration, Harvard |
| 1998 | Dr jur (“Dismissals in Spanish Labour Law”), Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1992 | Master of Law, Berlin Law studies in Berlin, Lausanne and León English, French, Spanish, Serbian |