Siegfried Bock

This article deals with the politician and diplomat Siegfried Bock. For the bishop of Cammin Siegfried II. Bock († 1446) see Siegfried II. Bock .

Siegfried Bock (4th from right) during the CSCE in 1975

Siegfried Bock (born September 26, 1926 in Meerane ; † January 1, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and diplomat of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was the GDR's ambassador to Romania from 1977 to 1984 and to Yugoslavia from 1988 to 1990 .

Life

Bock learned the trade of textile merchant after elementary school and was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1944/45 . After the end of the Second World War he studied law at the University of Leipzig and became a lawyer in 1950 , received his doctorate in 1955 and later qualified as a professor . In 1946 he joined the SED and from 1951 worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1953 to 1957, Bock headed the Department for Legal and Contracts at the MfAA.

In 1959 Bock was legal advisor to the GDR delegation at the Geneva Foreign Ministers' Conference and from 1962 to 1966 counselor in Romania. From 1967 to 1977 he was, as the successor to Gerhard Herder , head of the department of fundamental issues at the MfAA.

From 1972 to 1975 Bock was active at the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Helsinki and Geneva and at times head of the GDR delegation in Geneva. From 1977 to November 1984 he was, as the successor to Hans Voss , ambassador of the GDR in Romania, then from 1984 to 1988 head of the Southeast Europe department at the MfAA and from 1988 to the end of September 1990 the GDR's ambassador in Yugoslavia.

From 1993 to 2005 Bock was President, then Honorary President, of the Association for International Politics and International Law (VIP), which emerged from the professional association of GDR diplomats.

Fonts

• How can peace be secured in Europe? Berlin 1968.
• For collective security in Europe. The European policy of the GDR. Verlag Zeit im Bild, Dresden 1968.
• (as editor): GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Diplomats in conversation . Lit-Verlag, Berlin, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7539-3 .
• (as editor): GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Alternative German foreign policy? Lit-Verlag, Berlin, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9278-6 .
• (as editor): GDR foreign policy: an overview. Data, facts, people (III). Lit-Verlag, Berlin, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit (GDR) in bronze (1971), in silver (1976) and in gold (1986)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X .
• Gabriele Baumgartner: Bock, Siegfried . In: dies., Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 67.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Bock, Siegfried . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 45.

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Bock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Siegfried Bock . In: Junge Welt , July 30th and 31st, 2005. ( online )
2. ^ Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau (eds.): GDR foreign policy - an overview. Data, facts and people . Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 70. ( online )
3. ↑ Detlef Nakath: Review of Alternative German Foreign Policy? , Berlin 2006, at www.hu-berlin.de . ( online )
4. ↑ Philipp Maußhardt: Ambassador of the past . In: Die Zeit , Hamburg June 10, 1994. ( online )
5. ↑ In: Neues Deutschland , 4./5. October 1986, p. 5.