Bernhard Neugebauer

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Bernhard Neugebauer (born January 29, 1932 in Glatz , Lower Silesia Province ; † October 14, 2015 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat and politician ( SED ). He was Ambassador and Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of the GDR to the UN in New York and Deputy Foreign Minister of the GDR.

Life

Neugebauer studied 1951-1953 jurisprudence at the German Academy of Law and Political Sciences in Potsdam-Babelsberg with a degree in lawyer.

From 1953 he was a member of the diplomatic service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). He was personal assistant to the deputy foreign minister and from 1958 to 1961 first secretary at the embassy of the GDR in Prague . From 1963 to 1966 he worked for the Permanent Mission of the GDR to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva . In 1969 he took over the management of the International Organizations Department at the MfAA. From 1970 to 1972 he studied at the Institute for International Relations in Moscow . From 1973 to 1977 he was envoy and deputy head of the Permanent Mission of the GDR to the UN in New York and from 1977 to 1978 head of the Department of International Economic Organizations at the MfAA. From 1978 to 1990 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the GDR. From 1979 to 1983 and from 1986 to 1990 Neugebauer was also President of the UNESCO Commission of the GDR.

At the end of October 1980, Neugebauer traveled to Salisbury as Erich Honecker's special envoy and agreed with Robert Mugabe to establish diplomatic relations between Zimbabwe and the GDR.

When GDR membership in the UN ended with German reunification in October 1990 , Neugebauer paid a farewell visit to UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar .

Neugebauer was a member of the SED . He was a board member of the Association for International Politics and International Law. V.

Neugebauer died at the age of 83 and was buried in the Karlshorster and Neuen Friedrichsfelder Friedhof in Berlin-Karlshorst .

Awards

Fonts

  • Constructive policy of the GDR on arms limitation and disarmament - a contribution to peace and security . In: Militärwesen , Vol. 24 (1980), Issue 9, pp. 3–10.
  • Peacebuilding activities of the GDR in the UN . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , Vol. 27 (1982), Issue 5, pp. 5-11.
  • What does 20 years of German membership mean for the new federal states? In: German Society for the United Nations (ed.): 20 years of German membership in the United Nations under scrutiny . DGVN, Bonn 1994.
  • UNESCO work in the GDR 1955–1990 . In: Klaus Hüfner, Wolfgang Reuther (Ed.): UNESCO Handbook . Kriftel, Neuwied / Luchterhand, Berlin 1996, pp. 122–125.
  • (together with Günter Schumann): Multilateral aid of the GDR . In: German Society for the United Nations (ed.): 25 years of German membership in the United Nations. The contribution to multilateral development cooperation . DGVN, Bonn 1998.
  • On the membership of the GDR in the United Nations Organization . In: Daniel Küchenmeister, Detlef Nakath, Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan (eds.): Demarcated cosmopolitanism. On the foreign and Germany policy of the GDR . Brandenburg Association for Political Education "Rosa Luxemburg", Potsdam 1999, pp. 69–92.
  • GDR, UN politics . In: Helmut Volger (Ed.): Lexicon of the United Nations . Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, pp. 46-52.
  • The golden hour of diplomacy. 30 years ago: GDR and FRG become UN members . In: Neues Deutschland , 20./21. September 2003 ( online ).
  • The United Nations and the two German states . In: Daniel Küchenmeister, Detlef Nakath, Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan (eds.): Berlin and Bonn in New York. The two German states in the United Nations . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brandenburg, Potsdam 2004, pp. 35–54 ( online ).
  • On the membership of the two German states in the UN . Association for international politics and international law V., Berlin 2006 (Writings on International Politics, Volume 8).

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 , p. 228.
  • Sigrid Fritzlar: Neugebauer, Bernhard . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 592.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bulletin of the Berlin Committee for UNESCO Work / November 2011 .
  2. ^ Ilona and Hans-Georg Schleicher: The GDR in southern Africa: Solidarity and Cold War . Institute for Africa customer, Hamburg 1997, p. 145.
    Ilona and Hans-Georg Schleicher: Special Flights. The GDR and the Liberation Movements in Southern Africa . SAPES Books, Harare 1998, p. 139.
  3. ^ Obituaries in the Berliner Zeitung from October 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Neugebauer, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and politician (SED), Deputy Foreign Minister of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Glatz , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2015
Place of death Hamburg