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Knut Abraham - Curriculim vitae

May 2025 to present

Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation

2021 to present

Member of the German Bundestag for the CDU/CSU

2018 to 2021

German Embassy, Warsaw, Deputy Head of Mission

2015 to 2018

Federal Chancellery, Foreign and Security Policy Directorate-General, Head of the Division for Bilateral Relations with the States of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus

2011 to 2015

German Embassy, Washington, Head of the Legal and Consular Section

2006 to 2011

Federal Chancellery, Foreign and Security Policy Directorate-General, Deputy Head of Division for the United Nations, Global Issues, Human Rights

2005 to 2006

Federal Foreign Office, Desk Officer in the Parliament and Cabinet Division

2003 to 2005

Federal Foreign Office, Desk Officer in the Division for Basic Issues of Defence and Security Policy

2000 to 2003

German Embassy, Sofia, Desk Officer for Press, Economic Affairs, Domestic Policy and Culture

1998 to 2000

Training for the higher foreign service

1998

Second state examination in law

1996 to 1998

Practical legal training, Berlin Higher Regional Court

1994 to 1996

Parliamentary assistant to Dr Otto von Habsburg, MEP, Brussels

1993

First state examination in law

1987 to 1996

Head of the Office of Dr Otto von Habsburg, MEP, German Bundestag, Bonn

1987 to 1993

Legal studies at the University of Bonn

1985 to 1987

Military service

1985

Higher education entrance qualification (Abitur)

Born in Hamburg on 4 June 1966; married with five children

Functions and memberships

Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (Spokesman in the 20^th parliamentary term)

Alternate member in the EU Affairs Committee

Member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly