Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz

German Representative in the Group of Experts for Drafting NATO’s New Strategic Concept

Ambassador von Ploetz retired from the German Foreign Service in 2005, following a long and distinguished career as a diplomat. Between 2002 and 2005 he was Ambassador of Germany to the Russian Federation and, prior to this, he was German Ambassador to the United Kingdom. In the early 1990s he was Permanent Representative of Germany on the North Atlantic Council, having been promoted from the position of Deputy Permanent Representative. Ambassador von Ploetz has also occupied a number of senior positions at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, heading departments dealing with transatlantic and European security issues. He was educated at the University of Marburg and received his doctorate in law in 1967. In 2009 he was appointed as a Member of the Group of Experts for Drafting NATO’s New Strategic Concept.