Andrei Andreevich Smirnov
Andrei Andrejewitsch Smirnow ( Russian Андрей Андреевич Смирнов ; born October 15, 1905 in Moscow ; † February 26, 1982 ) was a Soviet politician ( CPSU ) and diplomat . He was Deputy Foreign Minister and Soviet Ambassador to the Republic of Austria , the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Turkey .
Life
Smirnov studied law and planning economics in Leningrad . In 1936 he entered the diplomatic service of the Soviet Union. From 1937 until the German attack on the Soviet Union on June 21, 1941, which resulted in the severance of diplomatic relations, Smirnov was press attaché or counselor at the Soviet embassy in Berlin . From June 1941 to September 1943 he was the Soviet ambassador to Tehran . He then headed the III from 1943 to 1949. European Department of the People's Commissariat or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. In 1945 he worked as a consultant for the Soviet military administration in Germany . From 1946 to 1949 he also worked as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR . Smirnow was considered an expert on questions of Germany and Central and Eastern European politics. He was a member of the Soviet delegations to the Allied Conferences in Tehran in 1943, London in 1947 and Paris in 1949.
From March to October 1956 he was the Soviet ambassador in Vienna , from October 1956 to May 1966 ambassador in Bonn and then from May 1966 to June 1969 ambassador in Ankara . From 1969 to 1973 he was one of the Deputy Foreign Ministers of the USSR. From 1970 to 1973 he was chairman of the Soviet UNESCO Commission.
In 1981/82 Smirnov was a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU .
literature
- Andrei Andrejewitsch Gromyko et al. (Ed.): Дипломатический словарь . Volume 3. Nauka, Moscow 1986, p. 42.
- Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1031.
- Hartmut Weber (Ed.): The cabinet minutes of the federal government . Volume 19 (1966). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, p. 614.
- Andrej A. Smirnow , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1982 of 23 August 1982, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smirnow, Andrei Andrejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Смирнов, Андрей Андреевич |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1982 |