Alfred Marter

Alfred Marter (born April 15, 1934 in Braunsberg ; † 1998 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to Syria , France and Italy .

Life

Marter, the son of a construction worker, joined the Free German Youth in 1949 . In 1953 he passed his Abitur . He then studied from 1953 to 1956 at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg . He graduated with a degree in political science. In 1955 Marter joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany .

1956 Marter became an employee of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). He was initially a consultant, then senior consultant in the Arab States Department . From 1959 he acted as attaché or vice-consul at the Consulate General of the GDR in the United Arab Republic in Cairo . From 1962 he was again active as a sector manager in the cultural department at the MfAA in Berlin. In 1965 he became consul in Syria, then deputy head of the GDR trade agency in Egypt. 1967/68 he worked as a sector manager in the Arab States department of the MfAA. In 1968/69 Marter was head of the consulate general and from 1969 to 1972 he was the GDR's ambassador in Syria. From 1972 to 1978 Marter was sector manager, then until 1984 deputy head of the international relations department of the MfAA. From December 1984 to 1990 Marter was the GDR's ambassador in Paris , from April 18 to September 15, 1990, finally, ambassador to Rome , where he was also responsible for Malta .

In February 1990 Marter applied to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg to accept the GDR as a guest member.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1971) and in silver (1977)
• Order " Banner of Labor " (1981, 1983)

literature

• Anita Dasbach-Mallinckrodt: Who makes the GDR's foreign policy? Apparatus, methods, goals . Droste, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-7700-0291-1 , p. 355.
• 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 , p. 203.
• Manfred Bliefernich: Marter, Alfred . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 515.
• Andreas Herbst :  Marter, Alfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Möller et al. (Ed.): The unit. The Foreign Office, the GDR Foreign Ministry and the two-plus-four process . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-30076-3 , p. 803.