Erich Meske

Erich Meske (born September 18, 1932 ; † 2009 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to numerous African countries.

Life

Meske was born into a working-class family and learned to be a carpenter. After attending the workers and farmers faculty , he passed his Abitur in 1956 and then studied foreign policy from 1956 to 1960 at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

He worked in the diplomatic service of the GDR: first as counselor in Damascus , then in 1975/1976 as counselor in Tehran . From July 1976 to 1978 he was ambassador of the GDR in Tunis , from 1980 to 1985 ambassador in the Malian capital Bamako . From there he was also responsible as ambassador for Mauritania (1980–1985), Niger (1981–1985) and Burkina Faso (1982–1985). From 1986 to 1990 he was ambassador in Bissau , where he received a second accreditation for the Gambia .

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. 208.
• 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. 537.
• Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III). LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 333.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New ambassador of the GDR in Tunisia was accredited . In: Neues Deutschland , July 13, 1976, p. 2.