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Special Representative of the Federal Foreign Office for Relations with Jewish Organisations, Issues Relating to Antisemitism, International Sinti and Roma Affairs, and Holocaust Remembrance
Ambassador Christina Beinhoff has been the Special Representative of the Federal Foreign Office for Relations with Jewish Organisations, Issues Relating to Antisemitism, International Sinti and Roma Affairs, and Holocaust Remembrance since March 2026.
Christina Beinhoff
married, two children
since 08/2025
Director-General for Culture and Society, Federal Foreign Office and, since March 2026, also Special Representative for Relations with Jewish Organisations; Issues relating to Antisemitism, International Sinti and Roma Affairs, Holocaust Remembrance
04/2022 to 07/2025
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Sweden, job-sharing
10/2021 to 12/2021
Acting Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to the Federal Chancellor
2019 to 09/2021
Federal Chancellery, Deputy Director-General, Foreign Policy and Security Policy
2018 to 2019
Federal Foreign Office, Director for Infrastructure and Security
2015 to 2018
Federal Foreign Office, Head of Division for Real Estate Management Abroad
2014 to 2015
Federal Ministry of Defence, Political Adviser with responsibility for Post-Soviet Countries
2010 to 2014
Federal Foreign Office, Personnel Development Manager in the Personnel Division responsible for the Higher Service
2007 to 2010
German Embassy in Paris, France, Counsellor for Political Affairs
2004 to 2007
Federal Foreign Office, desk officer, Task Force for Human Rights (Directorate-General for Global Issues and the United Nations)
2001 to 2004
German Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Second Secretary, Economic Affairs / Legal and Consular Affairs
1999 to 2001
Training for the Higher Foreign Service
1998 to 1999
Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, New York, Second Secretary, Development Cooperation, UNFPA, Humanitarian Affairs
1997 to 1998
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, desk officer, International Trade Policy, Bonn
1996 to 1997
Albertus-Magnus-Universität Cologne, research assistant
1993 to 1996
District Court Cologne, legal internship; Second state law examination
1991
First state law examination