Background

Wistinghausen, Henning von was born on November 26, 1936 in Copenhagen. Son of Rudolf and Ursula (Breyer) von Wistinghausen.

Education

Assessor juris, Munich, 1965.

Career

Attaché, German Embassy, Dublin, Ireland, 1966-1967; 3d secretary, Foreign Office, Bonn, 1967-1969; 1st secretary, counsellor, Foreign Office, Bonn, 1975-1981; division head, Foreign Office, Bonn, 1984-1990; 2d and 1st secretary, head legal and consular department, German Embassy, Moscow, 1969-1972; deputy head mission, German Embassy, Dakar, Senegal, 1972-1975; head relations with producer and consumer countries division, International Energy Agency, Paris, 1981-1984; consul general, German Consulate General, Leningrad, Russia, 1990-1991; ambassador to Estonia,, German Embassy, Tallinn, 1991-1995; ambassador to Kazakhstan, German Embassy, Almaty, since 1995. Member Baltic History Commission.

Achievements

• Henning von Wistinghausen has been listed as a noteworthy German diplomat by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Monique Baroness Snoy, May 21, 1966. Children: Magnus, Christian, Natalie.

Father:

Rudolf Wistinghausen

Mother:

Ursula (Breyer) Wistinghausen

Spouse:

Monique Baroness Snoy

child:

Magnus Wistinghausen

child:

Natalie Wistinghausen

child:

Christian Wistinghausen