FDP heavyweight soon Germany's voice with Putin?
Report on personnel changes in the Ukraine war
Created: 12/27/2022, 12:48 p.m
By: Florian Naumann
FDP parliamentary group leader Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.
© Kay Nietfeld/dpa
German ambassador in Russia - currently a difficult task.
The traffic light coalition now allegedly wants to appoint a prominent FDP politician to Putin.
Berlin/Munich – Who should make Germany's voice heard at the Kremlin?
A very important question in times of the Ukraine war.
The traffic light coalition has now apparently agreed on a change in the post of German ambassador in Russia: According to reports, a political heavyweight is to take over the post with the FDP foreign politician and parliamentary group leader Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.
Germany will probably change ambassadors in the Ukraine war: Lambsdorff new voice at Putin's Kremlin?
"That's the way it's intended," a source from coalition circles confirmed to
Der Spiegel
.
The portal The Pioneer
had previously
reported on the personnel.
There was no official confirmation of this on Tuesday.
There were already first congratulations: "I'm really happy for you, dear Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, but also for Germany and Europe," tweeted Franziska Müller-Rech - as FDP chairwoman in Lambsdorff's home base Bonn, possibly quite close to the matter.
The currently busy military expert Carlo Masala also publicly congratulated.
Géza Andreas von Geyr is currently the German ambassador to Russia.
He, too, will have heard further rumblings from Vladimir Putin's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday - or harsh accusations from Dmitry Medvedev.
Traffic light exchanges diplomats: Supposedly also a new man in the USA
Allegedly, however, another shift in office is being planned in the highest German diplomatic circles.
According to information from
The Pioneers
, the State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office and former ambassador to London, Andreas Michaelis, will be the new German ambassador to Washington.
He and Lambsdorff should both take up their new posts in the summer of 2023, it said.
Lambsdorff was previously in the diplomatic service, including in the planning staff of the Federal Foreign Office and in the press staff of the German Embassy in Washington.
From 2003 to 2004 he worked as a country officer for Russia in the German Foreign Ministry.
(
AFP/fn
)
