Thursday, 20 August 2020, Berlin, Bellevue Palace, Germany: The Czech Republic’s erstwhile Deputy Vice-Minister of European Affairs (2017-2020), Tomáš Kafka (b. 1965), was accredited as his country’s ambassador to Germany after presenting credentials to Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Ambassador Kafka already served once in Berlin at the outset of his diplomatic career between 1991 and 1995 in the capacity of Attaché for Culture, Press, Research and Education at the then branch office of the Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic. His first ambassadorship took his to Dublin as ambassador to Ireland from 2008 to 2013.
From 2014 he was the Director for Central Europe at the Foreign Ministry, and since 2017 jointly Deputy Vice-Minister for European Affairs. He is fluent in German, English and Russian.
For further information:
Czech Embassy to Germany: https://www.mzv.cz/berlin/de/die_botschaft/botschafter.html
Accreditation at Bellevue Palace: https://www.bundespraesident.de/DE/Home/home_node.html#-gallery
Photography by Czech Embassy to Germany.
