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Jörn J. Follmer (* 12 January 1966 in Landau/Pfalz) is a German entrepreneur and Honorary Consul of Jamaica with Consular District Germany South (Federal States of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg). The appointment was made by handing over the writ-of-assignment of the Jamaican Minister of Foreign affairs on 05 April 2010. The exequatur was announced on 24 June 2010 by the Federal Foreign Office under former German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle († 18 March 2016).

Early life and career
Jörn J. Follmer grew up in West Berlin, where he graduated from the Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem in 1984. From 1985, he studied business administration at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg and Texas Christian University (Dallas/Forth Worth). In 1989, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics and in 1991 with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.).

Follmer's professional career began in 1991 at Kienbaum Management Consultancy, where he spent three years supporting projects at the German Treuhandanstalt, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the Russian Aeroflot. In 1994, Jörn Follmer took on a position as Vice President at Fondus GmbH, a medium-sized industrial holding company owned by his family. In 1997, Jörn Follmer joined CP Telecom AG as majority shareholder. In 1999, 50.1% of the company were sold to Primus Telecom, a telecommunications company listed on NASDAQ. In 2002, Jörn Follmer founded DLO Deutsche Logistik Outsourcing AG, which he still heads today. Since 2007, Follmer has been a partner at CDC Capital, a CPA firm, for ECM Equity Capital Markets.

Sports
Follmer is considered to be a passionate traveler. He has visited more than 120 countries. As an avid skier, he has participated in numerous alpine ski races, such as Inferno Mürren (Schilthorn, Switzerland), Der Weisse Ring (Arlberg, Austria) and Der Weisse Rausch (Arlberg, Austria). As a mountaineer, he has climbed the Zugspitze (Germany), the Großglockner (Austria) and Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), among others.

Activity as Honorary Consul
Jörn J. Follmer is one of approximately 350 honorary consuls appointed in the 15 German states outside the capital Berlin. He is a member of the Bavarian Consular Corps, which has the strongest international representation after the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 127 nations have consular representation in the Bavarian capital of Munich, including 45 consulates general and 82 honorary consulates. In addition to accreditation with the protocol in Bavaria, he is also accredited in Stuttgart.

In the professional organization CCD-Consular Corps Germany he is a member of the International Committee as well as a member and participant in the activities of FUECH-Federation de l'Union Europeenne des Consuls Honoraires.

Memberships
1993 - present: Member of the Berlin Merchants and Industrialists Association

1998 - present: Co-founder (creator of the club charter) of the Lions Club Berlin-Metropolis (2003: Award of Distinction by Lions Germany for membership recruitment)

2009 - present: Member of the Lions Club Munich-Metropolitan

2003 - present: member of the BusinessAngelClub Berlin

2007 - present: associate member of the Venture Capital Club Munich [7]

Weblinks

 * Honorary Consulate


 * German Ministry of Foreign Affairs


 * Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade