Matthias Lüttenberg has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada
(Ottawa) together with his spouse Tjorven Bellmann since September 2024.

After completing his civilian non-military national service and studying law at the Universities of
Passau and Aberystwyth (United Kingdom), he obtained an LL.M. eur. (European Business Law) from
the University of Passau and passed the Second State Examination in Law in Munich in 2002.

He joined the Foreign Service in 2003. After his first assignments abroad in Pristina (Kosovo) and
London, he worked in the Political Directorate-General of the Federal Foreign Office, the Political
Section at the German Embassy in Tel Aviv and then again in the Political Directorate-General of the
Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.

In July 2014, he transferred to the Federal Chancellery, where he was responsible for bilateral
relations with the countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia and
the South Caucasus (with a focus on Ukraine and the Western Balkans) for seven years. He was Head
of Division from 2018.

In June 2021, he became Deputy Head of the Political Directorate-General of the Federal Foreign
Office as Director for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

He is a recipient of the Order 3rd Class, of Ukraine, the Nazir Torekulov Medal of the Republic of
Kazakhstan and the Non-Article 5 NATO Medal.

He and his wife have three children.