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The Embassy of Tanzania |
Contact
Address: Eschenallee 11, D-14050 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 303 080 0
Email: berlin@tzembassy.go.tz
The Ambassador
H.E. Hassani Iddi Mwamweta
His Excellency Hassani Iddi Mwamweta was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Republic of Tanzania to the Federal Republic of Germany on 8 December 2023. He brings to his diplomatic role nearly two decades of experience in foreign service, public administration, and international cooperation, particularly in African-European relations and protocol affairs.
Before his current appointment, Ambassador Mwamweta served as Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the Embassy of Tanzania in Turkey from October 2021. He previously held senior positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation in Tanzania, including as Acting Head of the Department for Europe and the Americas (2020–2021) and as Counsellor (2019–2020).
From 2015 to 2019, he was appointed Liaison Officer for Protocol to the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. Prior to that, he served as First Secretary (2014–2019) and Second Secretary (2009–2014) in the Ministry’s Protocol Division, gaining deep expertise in diplomatic protocol and state affairs.
Ambassador Mwamweta began his career in public service as an Administrative Officer in the Rukwa Regional Commissioner’s Office in 2005, followed by investigative roles at the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance from 2005 to 2009.
He holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies (2007–2009) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations (2001–2004), both from the University of Dar es Salaam. He also completed a postgraduate diploma in Foreign Service Management at the Mozambique-Tanzania Centre for Foreign Relations (2013), and a professional training course for African diplomats at the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin (2017).
Ambassador Mwamweta is fluent in English and Swahili.
History
German-Tanzanian relations are good and wide-ranging. They received fresh impetus and important new momentum with the official visit to Tanzania by Federal President, Gauck, and Ms Schadt in February 2015. This applies in particular to the business sector, which was represented during the visit by a high-ranking business delegation and proclaimed its interest in a substantial expansion of trade and investment relations. By attending a session of the Joint Committee of Religious Leaders for Peace and Tranquility in Zanzibar, Federal President Gauck opened up new prospects for relations with the Zanzibar Archipelago. By reviewing the projects of the Frankfurt Zoological Society in the Serengeti National Park, he reaffirmed Germany’s leading role in protecting biodiversity and combating poaching. He provided high-level backing to Germany’s engagement in an environment characterised by strongly conflicting interests.
Bilateral cultural relations focus on academic exchange, cultural preservation projects and promoting school and popular sport in Tanzania. A lighthouse project in academic cooperation is the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, which is run in cooperation with the University of Bayreuth. The Goethe Institute in Dar es Salaam offers language courses and cultural programmes, which gives it a very high profile there. The 2016 exhibition on the German colonial era at the German Historical Museum is being mounted in cooperation with the National Museum and National Archives of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam.
