H.E. Dr. Volker Stanzel, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People’s Republic of China
Volker Stanzel was born in 1948 in Frankfurt am
Main. He studied Japanese, Chinese Studies and
Political Science in Frankfurt and Kyoto, receiving
his PhD from Cologne University. He entered the
Foreign Service in 1979 and worked at the German
Embassies in Rome, Tokyo, Aden and Beijing.
He has headed the Press and Information Department
at the German Embassy in Beijing (1990-
1993), the Operation Center at the Foreign Office
in Bonn (1993-1995) and the Department for
Non-proliferation and Civilian Use of Nuclear
Energy at the Foreign Office in Berlin (1999-
2001). From 1995 to 1998, Volker Stanzel was
Foreign Policy Advisor to the Social Democratic
Party of Germany in the German Bundestag,
1998/1999 Visiting Fellow of the German Marshall
Fund of the United States in Washington.
From 2001 until 2002 he was Director for Asian &
Pacific Affairs followed by an appointment as
Director-General for Political Affairs. Since 2004,
Dr. Stanzel is the German Ambassador to China.