The EU Ambassador to Albania, Luigi Soreca ended his mandate in our country and the EC has appointed his deputy. Soreca's replacement is Christiane Hohmann, who previously served as Germany's ambassador to Estonia and most recently served in Bosnia.
The appointment was made by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, who appointed 31 heads of Delegations of the European Union. These mayors will be formally appointed after receiving the relevant agreements from their host countries.
Who is Christiane Hohmann?
After graduating from high school in 1983, Christiane Hohmann began her studies as a language mediator for English and French in Berlin, which she completed in 1988.
From 1988 to 1991 she was a research student of English literature at Humboldt University in Berlin and then completed the senior foreign service preparatory service between 1991 and 1993. After graduating, she was initially employed at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin. and from 1994 to 1997 at the Embassy in the United States of America.
She then worked again at the Federal Foreign Office from 1997 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2003 was the ambassador's permanent representative in Cameroon. After another post at the Federal Foreign Office between 2003 and 2005, she was an exchange officer at the European Commission in Brussels from 2005 to 2010.
Later, she worked again at the US Embassy between 2010 and 2013 and, upon her return, headed a department at the Federal Department of State from 2013 to 2016.
In 2016 Christiane Hohmann replaced Christian Hellbach as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In July 2019 she was transferred to the German Embassy in Tallinn / Estonia.