Jörg Zimmermann
Jörg Zimmermann is a German diplomat, who served as Germany's ambassador to New Zealand from 2005 to 2009. He is also accredited as ambassador to Fiji.
Career
Zimmermann has been employed in the German Foreign Service since 1976, when he was appointed as the economic attaché at the German embassy in Beijing, China. He has held the following positions:- Press and cultural attaché in Manila, Philippines
- Assistant head of the South East Asia Division of the Foreign
- Deputy consul-general Osaka-Kobe, Japan
- Deputy head of the East Asia Division of the Foreign Office
- Deputy head of mission to the German embassy in Algiers, Algeria
- Consul-general to Canton, China
- Head of the Foreign Affairs Department in the Office of the President of Germany
- Minister for political affairs at the German embassy in Tokyo, Japan