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Christoph Heusgen is a German diplomat and politician who served as the National Security Advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2020. He was born on 17 March 1955 in Heerdt, Düsseldorf, Germany. He is 65 years old.
Heusgen studied law at the University of Bonn and the University of Freiburg. He then joined the German Foreign Service in 1983. He served in various diplomatic posts in the German embassies in Washington, D.C., and London. He was also the German ambassador to the United Nations from 2001 to 2005.
Heusgen is married to his wife, Dr. Annette Heusgen, and they have two children.
Heusgen has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as a diplomat and politician.
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His wife is Ina Heusgen
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Christoph Heusgen Net Worth
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The Wiesenthal Center listed Heusgen for 2019 among the year's 10 worst acts of antisemitism. German tabloid Bild “accused Heusgen in an editorial of ‘pure malice’ against the Jewish state.” The Wiesenthal Center further added that Heusgen “equated 130 rockets fired by terrorist Hamas at Israeli civilians in one week in March with the Jewish state’s demolition of terrorists’ homes”. Israel’s Ambassador to Germany defended Heusgen saying the accusation was totally inappropriate. The German Foreign Office pointed to Heusgen's long track record of supporting Israel's security.
In 2017, the German tabloid Bild spread leaked information from Russian hacker group Fancy Bear, believed to be linked to Russian intelligence agency GRU, who had hacked into the United Nations’ email system and obtained Heusgen’s correspondences, including one which suggested that he helped his wife get a job at the UN. Journalists familiar with the issue of working couples reported that it is not uncommon for both partners to seek employment.
In November 2016 it became known that Heusgen would succeed Harald Braun as Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in New York in 2017. In this capacity, he led the country’s campaign for the United Nations Security Council election in 2018. He subsequently served as the President of the United Nations Security Council in April 2019. In December 2019 Heusgen was an place 7 by list of Simon Wiesenthal Center on most antisemitic behaviour in 2019, because of his decisions to vote against Israel government on UNO-level.
In 2005 Heusgen became Under-Secretary for Foreign and Security Policy in the German Chancellery. In this capacity, he served as chief advisor on foreign and security policy to Chancellor Angela Merkel. By the end of his term, he was the longest-serving official in this position.
The son of pharmacists, Heusgen grew up in Neuss where he attended Quirinus-Gymnasium. During his highschool years, he spent a year as an exchange student at Western Reserve Academy, a boarding school in Hudson, Ohio. Heusgen studied in St. Gallen, at Georgia Southern University (GSU) and at Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, and obtained a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen in 1980. Heusgen also enjoyed watching football, stating that he was a fan of FC Bayern Munich.
Heusgen joined the diplomatic service of West Germany in 1980.
Christoph Heusgen (born 17 March 1955 in Düsseldorf-Heerdt) is a German diplomat who has been serving as German Ambassador to the United Nations in New York since July 2017. He was Under-Secretary for Foreign and Security Policy in the German Chancellery from 2005 to 2017, and described as Angela Merkel's most influential foreign policy adviser. Currently, Germany is a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and Ambassador Heusgen served as President of the Council in April 2019.
