The Diplomat. 13/07/2018
The German ambassador in Madrid, Peter Tempel, has started the official visits of farewell after four years of work in the Spanish capital since in September he will join his new diplomatic appointment as German ambassador to Mexico.
One of these visits was the one that Tempel made last Wednesday to the ambassador of Mexico, Roberta Lajous. «Farewell to Peter Tempeo, next German ambassador to Mexico from September, my best wishes for your stay in our country for the next few years,» said Lajous on her personal Twitter account.
The German ambassador arrived in Spain in September 2014 after having been the ambassador of Germany to the EU between 2010 and 2014. In Brussels he was several years, from 1999 to 2006, as Chief of Staff of Commissioner Gunter Verheugen, from there that year he was appointed director general for Europe within the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.