Achim Reichardt
Achim Reichardt (born June 15, 1929 in Korbußen ) is a former German diplomat . He was the ambassador of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Lebanon and general secretary of the Solidarity Committee of the GDR .
Life
After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of a commercial clerk from 1944. From 1950 to 1953 he continued his education at the workers and farmers faculty of the University of Jena and obtained his Abitur. From 1953 to 1956 he studied international law and international relations at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg, graduating with a degree in political science .
In September 1956 he became an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1958 to 1961 he was deputy head of the GDR's commercial agency in Sudan, from 1965 to 1968 he was a representative of the government of the GDR for trade and economic issues in Libya and from 1970 to 1972 he was a councilor at the embassy of the GDR active in Sudan. In 1972 he took on a leading position in the MfAA and from February 1978 to August 1981 he was the GDR's ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon. From March 4, 1982 to 1990, he was the successor to Kurt Krüger General Secretary of the Solidarity Committee of the GDR. After the fall of the Wall, he continued his solidarity work as managing director of Solidarity Service International until the end of 1992.
Reichardt was a member of the SED .
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1979), in silver (1989)
Private
Reichardt has been married since 1952 and has two children, born in 1956 and 1959. Today, he lives as a pensioner in Rangsdorf .
Fonts
- Achim Reichardt, Never forget - practice solidarity , Kai Homilius Verlag , 2006.
- Achim Reichardt, The Adventure of a GDR Diplomat: My Years in Libya, Verlag am Park, 2015
literature
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 270.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horizon No. 13/1978
- ^ Volksstimme of March 5, 1982
- ^ Greetings from the Central Committee of the SED on the occasion of his 60th birthday in Neues Deutschland on June 15, 1989
Gerhard Herder (1973) | Bruno Sedlaczek (1973–1978) | Achim Reichardt (1978–1981) | Bruno Sedlaczek (1981-1986) | Horst Lindner (1986–1988) | Siegfried Löwe (1988–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichardt, Achim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat (GDR) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basket feet |