Egon Rommel

Egon Rommel (born September 13, 1930 ) is a former German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic and the People's Republic of Bulgaria .

Life

Rommel was born the son of a worker and attended a workers-and-farmers faculty . He joined the SED and studied from 1950 to 1956 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam . He completed his studies with a degree in political science.

In 1956 he joined the diplomatic service of the GDR. From 1958 to 1968 he was attaché and secretary at the GDR embassy and from 1968 to 1972 counselor in Ulan Bator . In 1972/1973 he attended the party college of the SED and was then from 1973 to 1976 deputy head of the "Far East" department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1976 to 1981 he was the GDR's ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic, from 1981 to 1983 deputy head of department “Southeast Europe” in the MfAA and finally from 1983 to 1990 the GDR's ambassador in Sofia .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1973)

Fonts

• 60 years of the Mongolian People's Republic - 60 years of socialist foreign policy of the MVR . In: German foreign policy . Vol. 26, No. 7 (1981), pp. 30-43.

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. 262.
• Gabriele Baumgartner: Rommel, Egon . In: dies., Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 730.
• 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. 345.