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| − | |wikipedia=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Friedrich_von_Ploetz
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| − | |description=German Permanent Representative to NATO, and Ambassador to the UK and Russia. Attended the [[1995 Bilderberg meeting]] as State Secretary in the Foreign Office
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| − | |linkedin=https://de.linkedin.com/in/dr-hans-friedrich-von-ploetz-94955268
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| − | |nationality=German
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| − | |birth_date= 12 July 1940
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| − | |birth_place=Nimptsch, Niederschlesien, Germany
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| − | |image=Hans-Fredeich von Ploetz.jpg
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| − | |spouses=Päivi Marianna Leinonen
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| − | |alma_mater=University of Marburg, Free University Berlin, University of Vienna
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| − | |constitutes=lawyer, diplomat
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| − | |title=Germany/Permanent Representative/NATO
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| − | }}'''Dr. Berthold Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz''' is a German jurist and diplomat. He was Permanent Representative to NATO, and Ambassador to the UK and Russia. He attended the [[1995 Bilderberg meeting]] as State Secretary in the Foreign Office,
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| − | ==Background==
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| − | Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz comes from an old noble family, which first appears on Gut Wartenberg in the Neumark in [[1306]] and has been documented in [[Pomerania]] since [[1509]], and is the son of the former landowner and later insurance clerk [[Berthold von Ploetz]] (1903-1998), and Bessie von Voigt (1905-1975). | |
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| − | Ploetz married Päivi Marianna Leinonen (born 19 September 1948 in Helsinki) in [[Helsinki]] ([[Finland]]) on 7 August [[1971]], the daughter of General [[Kaarlo Olavi Leinonen]], Commander of the Finnish Armed Forces, and Hilkka Virtanen. He is father of two children.
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| − | ==Education==
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| − | After graduating from high school in [[1960]], he studied law at the universities of Marburg, Berlin and Vienna. After the legal state examination, he was a research assistant at the [[University of Marburg]] and in [[1967]] he received his PhD in law.
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| − | ==Career==
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| − | In [[1966]] he entered the foreign service. First he worked in [[Morocco]], then in [[Finland]]. In [[1973]] he returned to [[Bonn]], where he worked in the economic department and in the [[NATO]] department of the political department. Another posting led to the [[USA]] and then again to Bonn in the [[1980s]], this time as deputy head and later head of department in the office of Federal Foreign Minister [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]]. In [[1985]] he became Head of Sub-Department 20, responsible for [[Western Europe]], [[North America]], [[NATO]], [[WEU]] and [[European Union]]. In [[1988]] he became deputy head of the German NATO embassy in Brussels.
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| − | From [[1989]] to [[1993]] Ploetz was himself German NATO Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the [[North Atlantic Council]]. Until [[1994]] he was head of the Europe department at the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn and from 1994 to 1998 successor to [[Jürgen Trumpf]] he was State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office, responsible for European integration as well as economic, cultural and legal issues. From [[1999]] to [[2002]] he was ambassador at the German Embassy in [[London]] and from 2002 to 2005 at the German Embassy in [[Moscow]].
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| − | From 2006 to December 2010, Ploetz was spokesman for the management of the German-Russian Youth Exchange Foundation.<ref>http://www.stiftung-drja.de/index.php?id=1</ref>
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| − | From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the supervisory board of the German Investment and Development Company and from 2008 to 2012 of [[Robert Bosch GmbH]]. Since 2011 he has chaired the Investment Advisory Council of the [[Green Gateway Fund]].
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| − | He is also on the board of the [[German-Azerbaijani Forum]].
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| − | Ploetz works for Wermuth Asset Management GmbH and is a member of the [[Green Growth Fund]] investment team.<ref>https://wermutham.com/people/</ref>He was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Vitrulan International GMBH (2005-2013).
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