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Paul Anton Krueger
Wide awake to look at the world and its dramatic changes – that’s what Thomas Bagger advised German foreign policy in a well-received essay in the magazine international politics in the summer of 2021. At that time, the diplomat was still head of the foreign policy department in the Office of the Federal President. Now, after a year, Annalena Baerbock is bringing him back to Berlin from his post as ambassador in Poland. As Secretary of State – and thus makes him your most important adviser. Born in Lüneburg in 1965, Bagger succeeds Andreas Michaelis, who ends his career with the top job of ambassador in Washington.