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Consul General Felix Schwarz

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Felix Schwarz has been Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sydney since July 2023

Curriculum vitae

Born on 14 January 1971 in San Sebastián/Spain. Married with two children

since July 2023
Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sydney, Australia

2021 - 2023
Deputy Chief of Protocol in the Foreign Office

2020 - 2021
Head of the State and Official Visits Division

2016 - 2020
Deputy Head of the State and Official Visits Division

2013 - 2016
Head of the Political Section and of the Legal and Consular Section, German Embassy in Hanoi, Viet Nam

2011 - 2013
Private Secretary to the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy, Berlin

2009 - 2011
Desk officer in the Human Rights Division in the Directorate-General for the United Nations and Global Issues, Berlin

2006 - 2009
Head of the Legal and Consular Section and Head of the Press and Public Relations Section at the German Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina

2003 - 2006
Desk officer in the Personnel Division, Berlin

2002 - 2003
Attaché training at the Federal Foreign Office, Bonn/Berlin

2000 - 2002
Practical legal training, Düsseldorf

1995 - 1999
Studied law at the University of Bonn

1994 - 1995
Compulsory military service

1991 - 1994
Training for the higher intermediate Foreign Service, Bonn

1991
Obtained higher education entrance qualification in Bielefeld

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