Carl Alexander Eckloff

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Carl Alexander Eckloff (also: Karl-Alexander Eckloff ; * August 24, 1906 , † June 7, 1979 ) was a German foreign trade official and diplomat . He was Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR and was a trade councilor in the Soviet Union and in the People's Republic of China .

Life

After 1945 Eckloff worked in the economic apparatus of the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) and the GDR. From 1949 he was the main director of a company in the Association of Nationally Owned Enterprises (VVB) lacquers, paints and plastics. As a representative of the Bakelite factories in Austria at the end of the 1930s, he had acquired the necessary specialist knowledge . From 1952 he was General Director of the German Internal and External Trade Company (DIA) Chemie-Export-Import, Berlin. In 1954/1955 he was head of the GDR's commercial agency in Bombay . From 1956 to 1962 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade. As a trade councilor and head of the GDR trade agency, he was in Moscow from 1963 to 1965 and then in the same function in Beijing .

In 1957, Eckloff played a key role in the negotiations that the eastern member churches of the EKD received in return for certain deliveries of goods from the Federal Republic of the GDR in Marks . The so-called “church business” remained in force until 1990. In a letter of congratulations from the Central Committee of the SED on his 60th birthday in August 1966, it was praised that he had been entrusted several times as the government representative with the initiation of new trade relations with capitalist countries and with young nation states.

Eckloff was a member of the SED and last lived in Berlin-Karlshorst . Eckloff was married to Edith Eckloff, b. Moses (* 1905, † 1988) and has a daughter, Doris Eckloff. He was seen as a factual and politically moderate functionary.

Awards

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 58.
  • 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. 144.
  • Johannes H. Voigt: The India policy of the GDR. From the beginning to the recognition (1952–1972) . Böhlau, Köln / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-18106-2 , pp. 40, 52 and 143.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 17, 1952.
  2. ↑ Karoline Rittberger-Klas: Church partnerships in divided Germany using the example of the regional churches of Württemberg and Thuringia . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55746-4 , p. 61 and p. 346 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 24, 1966, p. 2
  4. ^ Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin , 1979 edition, p. 126
personal data
SURNAME Eckloff, Carl Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckloff, Karl-Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, trade council of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1906
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1979