Erich Wetzl

Erich Wetzl (* 1937 in Langenau, Okres Kadaň ) is a former diplomat of the GDR and the last ambassador of the GDR to the Kingdom of Sweden .

Life

Wetzl was born into a family of small farmers in Bohemia and grew up after the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia, first in Darlingerode and later in Wernigerode , where he also obtained his university entrance qualification. After studying political science at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam, he worked for the GDR Foreign Ministry from December 1959. From 1961 to 1963 he worked in the embassy of the GDR in the People's Republic of China, then until 1972 at the GDR commercial agency in Copenhagen. After 15 years in the International Relations Department at the Central Committee of the SED , he was appointed ambassador to Sweden in 1988. On March 10, 1988, he presented King Carl XVI. Gustaf his credentials. He held this post until German reunification on October 3, 1990. From 1995 to 2007 he was a member of the PDS faction district councilor in the district council assembly of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , later in the district council assembly of Berlin-Pankow as well as in the Association for International Politics and International Law. From 2012, Wetzl was chairman of the German-Swedish Society Berlin eV He is a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity . and lives as a pensioner in Berlin.

Publications

• From farmer's son to ambassador . Association for International Politics and International Law, Berlin 2008

literature

• Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth and Hermann Schwiesau: GDR foreign policy: An overview. Data, facts, people (III). Lit-Verlag, Berlin, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 386.

Web links

• Erich Wetzl on the side of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlinbladet No. 69/2014
2. ^ Erich Wetzl in Remembrance Library GDR eV
3. ↑ Akzente No. 7-8 / 2012