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Consul General Duane C. Butcher
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Duane C. Butcher Duane Clemens Butcher, Jr. (38) is the Consul General in Hamburg. He was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1965, the son of Duane Clemens Butcher, also a Foreign Service Officer, who was assigned to the American Consulate General in Istanbul.
He attended school in Bonn, Germany, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Stockholm, Sweden, and he graduated from the International School of Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1983. He attended Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota, graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor’s Degree in history.
Mr. Butcher joined the Foreign Service in 1988. His first assignment was as General Services Officer in Muscat, Oman, in the period leading up to the beginning of the first Gulf War.
His next assignment was as Vice Consul at the Consulate General in Munich, Germany, where he was responsible for American Citizen Services.
In 1994 he was transferred to Baku, Azerbaijan, as Administrative Officer, where he was the primary officer responsible for establishing the new American Embassy there in its permanent location.
From 1996 to 1998 he served in Washington in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs as Senior Post Management Officer for the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, and had primary line responsibility for coordinating management support for the 15 Embassies in that region.
In 2000, Mr. Butcher became Administrative Counselor in Bucharest, Romania. After the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, he helped re-establish our Embassy in the former Yugoslavia. He traveled to Belgrade as a part of the first team to return, and participated in the negotiations to re-establish diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In July 2001 he returned to Belgrade as the first permanent Counselor for Management since the break in American presence. He served in Belgrade, concentrating on consolidating and expanding the American Embassy and renovating its facilities. This period saw the replacement of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, the continued expansion of the U.S. – Serbia and Montenegro relationship, and the tragic assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Gingic.
In August 2004 Mr. Butcher was named American Consul General in Hamburg. He is married to the former Nazilia Hashim-zade of Baku, Azerbaijan, and father of two boys.
He is the recipient of the State Department’s Superior Honor Award and Meritorious Honor Award. He speaks German, Serbian, Azerbaijani, and Romanian.
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