Welcome
The Permanent Representative
Ambassador
Michael Clauss
born in 1961, married, four children
| 1988 | Joined the Foreign Service |
| 1990 | Gulf War Crisis Unit, Foreign Office |
| 1991 | Desk officer, Political Affairs, German Embassy in Tel Aviv |
| 1994 | Desk Officer, Personnel Division (Higher Service), Foreign Office |
| 1997 | Counsellor, Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU, Brussels |
| 1999 | Private Secretary to the State Secretary, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2001 | Head of the Office of the State Secretaries, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2002 | Head of the Federal Government Secretariat for the EU Convention, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2005 | Deputy Director-General for European Affairs at the Foreign Office, Berlin and Commissioner for the German EU Presidency in 2007 |
| 2010 | Director-General for European Affairs, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2013 | Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany in China |
| 08/2018 | Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union, Brussels |