Gerhard Ernst Ottomar Sabathil (* 11 February 1954 in Pforzheim) is a German-Hungarian former EU diplomat.
He started his professional career in 1982 at the Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammertag (Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce).
He was then Director in the EU Commission and the European External Action Service in Brussels until 2015, most recently for East Asia and the Pacific.
[2] Previously, in September 2016, his security clearance, without which no access to classified documents is possible, had been revoked, and since August 2018, he had been wiretapped by the Verfassungsschutz (BfV, Office for the Protection of the Constitution).
The Bundesanwaltschaft (Office of the Federal Prosecutor) reportedly criticised the BfV and voiced doubts about the credibility of the sources that were used for the accusations against Sabathil.