Alfred Patzak

Alfred Patzak (born October 21, 1931 in Littitsch ; † July 26, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat . He was the ambassador of the German Democratic Republic in Uruguay .

Life

After finishing secondary school and attending an agricultural college, Alfred Patzak became a qualified farmer. He earned his Abitur at a workers and farmers faculty . In 1954 he began studying at the Institute for International Relations of the German Academy for Political Science and Law , which he graduated in 1957 with a degree in political science. From 1967 to 1969 he completed an evening course in economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

From 1957 Patzak worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1958 to 1959 he was an attaché at the embassy in Poland and then until 1960 employed in the Poland sector of the 2nd European Department (neighboring countries) and then in the 5th European Department (Western Europe). From 1962 to 1965 he worked as 3rd secretary at the embassy in Cuba and was then acting sector manager for the countries in southern Latin America in the 6th non-European department (Latin America) until 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he was the deputy head of the commercial agency in Mexico as a commercial councilor . From 1973 he worked as deputy head of the Latin America department, was appointed chargé d'affaires at the embassy in Uruguay in 1975 and, after his return from 1978 to 1985, sector director for the southern states of the continent in the Latin America department. From 1986 to 1990 he was the GDR's ambassador in Uruguay.

Alfred Patzak was a member of the SED .

literature

• Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 340.