Harro Adt

Harro Adt is a German diplomat.

Life and career

Adt studied law in Tübingen, Munich, and Freiburg; He passed his first state examination in 1969. In 1972 he passed the second state examination and then went into foreign service.
Adt was accredited in Kabul, Calcutta, Geneva, Paris, and Brussels. In 2003, he was Ministerial Director of Monsieur Afrique in the government of Gerhard Schröder. He was later appointed ambassador to South Africa and then the Federal Government's Africa Commissioner.
After serving as the ambassador to Mali, he traveled again to the Malian capital Bamako on 22 July 2003, together with the then State Secretary Jürgen Chrobog, in order to work with the Malian government to find a solution to the hostage-taking in the Sahara.
Adt is the father of the German business executive Katrin Adt.