Erich Renneisen

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Erich Renneisen (born April 20, 1907 in Berlin ; † September 23, 1970 ) was a German diplomat and foreign trade official. He was the trade council of the GDR in India and Great Britain .

Life

Renneisen, the son of a worker, completed an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in Berlin from 1923 to 1925 after attending primary and secondary school. From 1923 to 1933 he was a member of the General Association of German Employees . He worked as a graduate economist and businessman in Berlin, was a correspondent from 1932, then continued to work in the banking sector as an authorized representative until 1939. On April 1, 1942, he joined the NSDAP . In the Second World War he did military service from 1942 to 1945 . His last rank was a non-commissioned officer .

In 1946 he became a member of the SPD / SED and the FDGB . From 1946 to 1949 he worked as a clerk at the Deutsche Garantie- und Kreditbank Berlin, then as an authorized signatory and director of the GDR's Handelsbank. From 1950 he acted as head of department and from December 1951 to 1958 as head of the main finance and currency department in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade (MAI) and was the GDR's special representative for the Far East . From 1958 to 1962 he headed the GDR commercial agency in New Delhi as a trade councilor . From 1962 to 1965 he was head of the planning department at MAI. From 1965 to 1967 he was a trade councilor in charge of the representation of the Chamber for Foreign Trade in London . From 1967 to 1970 he was Vice President of the Deutsche Außenhandelsbank AG of the GDR.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 283.
  • 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. 704.
  • Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbook of Diplomacy 1815–1963 . Saur, Munich 2001, p. 170.
  • Henning Hoff: Great Britain and the GDR 1955–1973. Diplomacy in a roundabout way . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, p. 163, 180ff., 371, 378 and 413ff.
  • Johannes H. Voigt : The India policy of the GDR. From the beginning to the recognition (1952–1972) . Böhlau, Köln / Weimar 2008, pp. 45, 88, 214, 272–279, 281, 295, 297, 302–305, 307, 316 and 408.
  • 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 , pp. 257f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae in: DC 20-I / 3/99 - 74th meeting of the government of the GDR on March 20, 1952 - Federal Archives
personal data
SURNAME Renneisen, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and foreign trade official of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1970