Jörg Polster

Jörg Wolfram Polster[1] (born 1962 in Weida) is a German diplomat, who is the former Director General of the German Institute Taipei.[2][3]

Life

Polster received his doctorate in 1990 at the Technische Universität Dresden in physics. In 1991 he started his two-year-long attaché training for the Senior Foreign Service in the Federal Foreign Office. Afterwards he worked at various posts in the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Office as well as at the German Embassy, Seoul (South Korea), the German Institute, Taipei (Taiwan), the German Embassy, Hanoi (Vietnam), the German Embassy, Washington (United States), German Embassy, Caracas (Venezuela)[4] and New Delhi (India).[5]

Since July 2021 he has been Director General of the German Institute in Taipei, the German presence in the country, which effectively performs the role of a diplomatic representation.[6]

In the summer of 2025, Karsten Tietz succeeded Jörg Polster as Director General of the German Institute in Taipei.

References

  1. ^ "President Tsai receives congratulations from foreign guests attending 2021 National Day celebration". Presidential Office, Republic of China (Taiwan). 2021-10-10. Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  2. ^ Amt, Auswärtiges. "German missions in Taiwan". German Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
  3. ^ "Verzeichnis der Vertretungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Ausland sowie der Honorarkonsulinnen und Honorarkonsuln" [List of the representations of the Federal Republic of Germany abroad and of the honorary consuls] (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-12-23.
  4. ^ amerika21 (2015-06-06). "Venezuela bestellt aus Protest deutschen Diplomaten ein". amerika21 (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Secretariat, Taipei City Government (2022-06-08). "Dr. Jörg Polster, the Director General of the German Institute Taipei, Visited Mayor Ko to Discuss Housing Justice". Retrieved 2025-03-08.
  6. ^ "CV". German Institute Taipei. 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
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