Wilhelm Hoynck

Dr. Wilhelm Hoynck was born in Solingen, Germany, on 11 December 1933. He graduated as a Doctor in Private International Law and Comparative Law from the University of Cologne in 1964.

Appointed as Attache to the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1964, Mr. Hoynck became Deputy Chief of Mission for the German Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, from 1969 to 1971. After joining the German Permanent Mission to NATO as First Secretary in 1971, he returned to the Federal Foreign Office as Deputy Chief of the Middle East/Maghreb Division in 1975, until he became Head of Division Eastern Europe and North America, Disarmament and Arms Control in the Chancellor's Office in 1978.

In 1983, he left for Geneva as the Deputy Head of Mission for the German Permanent Mission to the UN. As of 1986, he served at the Federal Foreign Office as Director for Economic Relations, Director Eastern Europe, and Alternate Political Director, until he became Ambassador at Large in February 1991.