Eberhard Feister

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Eberhard Feister (born September 1, 1930 in Bautzen ; † May 24, 1987 ) was a German diplomat . He was Ambassador of the GDR in the Sudan , in Angola and in several Southeast Asian countries.

Life

After graduating from high school , Feister did an internship in 1950/1951 and then studied from 1952 to 1955 at the Berlin School of Economics . He completed his studies with a degree in economics. From 1955 to 1960 he was a member of the Strausberg District Council .

In 1960 he joined the diplomatic service of the GDR and in the early 1960s became an attaché at the embassy in Sofia . From 1966 to 1968 he was deputy head, from July 1968 to June 1969 then head of the GDR trade agency in Khartoum and then until May 1970 ambassador to Sudan. During the visit of the President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Jean-Bédel Bokassa , to Sudan , Feister signed an agreement with him on April 18, 1970 on the establishment of diplomatic relations and the exchange of ambassadors between the GDR and the CAR. In 1970 Feister received his doctorate. From 1970 he was a senior staff member in the Arab countries department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . From March 1976 to November 1977 he was ambassador to Luanda .

From April 1978 to March 1982 Feister was ambassador to Indonesia , from 8 June 1978 to July 1981 ambassador to the Philippines , from 21 September 1978 to 1980 ambassador to Malaysia and from 23 June 1979 to February 1982 also ambassador to Singapore . Most recently he worked as the secretary of the GDR Solidarity Committee .

Feister was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . He died after a long and serious illness at the age of 57.

Awards

  • Order " Banner of Labor " Level III (1981)
  • Medal of Merit of the Republic of Indonesia (1982)

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 68.
  • Former GDR Ambassador Receives Service Medal . In: Southeast Asia Report , No. 1240 , Jan. 18, 1983, p. 8.
  • 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. 173.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Troche: Ulbricht and the Third World: East Berlin's “fight” against the Bonn “sole agency presumption” . Palm & Enke, Erlangen and Jena 1996, p. 95.
  2. ↑ Horizont , No. 26, 1978.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 23, 1978.
  4. ^ New Germany of May 29, 1987.
  5. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from May 29, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Feister, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1987