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Ambassador Loehr joined the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1975, and most recently served as Germany's Ambassador to North Korea (2005-2007), and as Deputy to the Ambassador in Beijing (2002). His earlier foreign service appointments were in the German embassies in Belgrade, Khartoum, Budapest, Prague, Algiers, and Lagos, and the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. He held a number of diplomatic posts in Germany, including Desk Officer for Cultural Affairs (Africa); Desk Officer for Poland, then Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria; Member of the Policy Planning Staff; and Deputy Director (Europe) in the Federal Chancery. He has held the position of Counselor, responsible for relations with the European Parliament, in Brussels and Strasbourg, and was a Member of the Policy Planning Group, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Party (on secondment).

Ambassador Loehr studied law at the University of Montpellier, France, took his Examination in Law at Heidelberg in 1971, and trained as an attorney in the Heidelberg Magistrates' Court. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1971-1974), and studied at the Research Centre of the Academy for International Law at The Hague (1972), and at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (1997-1998). In 2007 and 2008, he held a Weatherhead Fellowship at Harvard.