Luis Ayllón
Maria Margarete Gosse, the new German ambassador to Germany, took up her post in Madrid in the middle of the month, following the departure of her predecessor, Wolfgang Dold, who is the new German ambassador to Mexico.
On the 16th, the Ambassador presented the Style Copies of her Letters of Credence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Ambassadors’ Introducer, María Sebastián de Erice.
Maria Gosse is well acquainted with Spain, having been married to a Spaniard and having held the post of Deputy Consul in Barcelona at the beginning of her diplomatic career in the 1990s.
Until her appointment, the new ambassador was Director General of the Central Services of the German Foreign Office, and will become the first woman to head the German Embassy in Madrid.
She has extensive diplomatic experience, which has taken her to various countries, including France, where she was consul in Paris, and to other posts in the Foreign Office, such as that of delegate for the area of law and consular affairs.
María Gosse will still have to wait a while before presenting her Letters of Credence to the King, which is expected to take place in September, when a new ceremony will be held at the Royal Palace.
In any case, it is foreseeable that she will be able to present his Credentials in time to be present at the state visit that the King and Queen will make to Germany on 17 and 18 October, when they will be received by the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and his wife, Elke Büdenbender, and will inaugurate the Frankfurt Book Fair, at which Spain is this year’s guest country.
In fact, preparing for this visit is one of the tasks that the new ambassador will have to face, although it will not be the only one. A couple of weeks beforehand, on 5 and 6 October, as reported by The Diplomat, a Spanish-German summit is scheduled to take place in Madrid, the first in the last nine years.
The summit, which is expected to be attended by seven or eight ministers from each country, will take place on the eve of the informal European Council to be held in Prague, making it a good time for the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to exchange views on various issues, including energy supply and gas connections from Spain to Central Europe.
