Jürgen Schulz

Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, Jürgen Schulz, delivered a statement at the ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Friends of the CTBT on 27 September 2018. Jürgen Schulz (born 1964 ) is a German diplomat. He served in several positions in the German Foreign service and has worked in the German representation to the NATO as well as to the United Nations.

Early life and education He went to school in his native Gladbeck. After he enrolled into the Ruhr University in Bochum from where he graduated in economics. Following he entered the foreign service in 1991. He has been working in the German Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan between 1993 until 1996 and in Brussels, Belgium at the Political Department of the International Staff of the NATO from 1996 to 2001. Later he was assumed responsibilities at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. As such he toured the country and met with the Mayor of Izmir Tunc Soyer and also the Mayor of Ankara Mansur Yavas. In October 2021 he and nine other ambassadors were declared Persona non Grata after ten embassies released statements demanding the release of the Turkish entrepreneur Osman Kavala who has a verdict to be released from the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey refuses to release Kavala and accuses him for organizing the Gezi Park protests.

Personal life Jürgen Schulz has married Sheila Stanton in 1996.