Friedel Bustards

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Friedel Trappen (born May 13, 1924 in Ummeln ; † November 7, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German teacher, social scientist and diplomat of the GDR .

Life

From 1938 to 1941 Trappen completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at the Optische Anstalt GmbH in Saalfeld . In 1942 he joined the NSDAP . From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Navy during the Second World War and from April 1945 to September 1947 was a French prisoner of war.

In August 1948 he became a member of the SED , in 1949 he worked as a teacher at the district youth school in Artern . From March 1949 to March 1950 he was the district chairman of the FDJ in Blankenburg / Harz . In 1950 and 1951, Trappen worked as a consultant and head of the youth welfare and home education department in the Ministry of the Interior and the State Youth Welfare Office in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1952 he worked as a lecturer at the Vocational Education Institute in Halle , which he headed from January 1953 to April 1954 as director. In September 1953 he had passed the second teacher examination for trainee teachers at vocational schools; until the end of 1957 he taught again as a lecturer at the Pedagogical Institute in Halle. Until May 1961, Trappen was an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED, from then until December 1962 a consultant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 1963 to mid-1964 he worked as an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED, interrupted by his work as 2nd secretary and cultural attaché at the GDR mission in Cuba (1962/1963). In 1964 he received his doctorate on the Cuban Revolution: "The Cuban Revolution in its First Stage". Until 1973 he worked as an instructor in the International Relations Department at the Central Committee of the SED; During this time he completed a social science degree at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (graduate social scientist, September 1965).

From July to September 1973, Trappen was used as the extraordinary and authorized ambassador of the GDR in Chile. This was followed by several months as a scientific advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From March 1974 to October 1986 he was deputy head of the International Relations Department at the SED Central Committee for Africa, Asia and Latin America. During this time he traveled and negotiated with foreign politicians, so in 1985 he headed the SED delegation at a meeting with the President of the People's Republic of Yemen , Ali Nasir Muhammad . From November 1986 until his retirement in May 1989, Trappen was then employed as the deputy head of the traffic department at the Central Committee of the SED. He was the recipient of various awards from the GDR, for example in May 1989 he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit .

Trappen was later a member of the PDS , and advised the party presidium as a member of the “Council of the Elderly” on the party's executive committee alongside Ruth Werner , Günter Sieber , Edwin Schwertner and Fritz Wolff on theoretical and practical questions.

His wife was Helga Trappen.

Fonts (selection)

  • Friedel Trappen, Development Problems of Socialist Cuba , in: Unity. Journal for Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism , 5/1963, Berlin 1963, pp. 127–135
  • Friedel Trappen, The Cuban People's Revolution in its First Stage , Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (ed.), Dissertation from June 26, 1964, Berlin 1964
  • Friedel Trappen, Die Cuban Volksrevolution , Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (ed.), Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1965
  • Friedel Trappen, Problems of the Development of Socialism in Cuba , Central Committee of the SED (Ed.), Edition 25/1970, Berlin 1970, pp. 1199–1208
  • Friedel Trappen, theses on the topic of the month April "Latin America - content and character" of the current revolutionary process , Presidium of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (publisher), Berlin 1973
  • Rudi Kaeselitz, Friedel Trappen and Manfred Uschner (eds.), The anti-imperialist struggle in Latin America: Small reference work , Dietz Verlag , 1973
  • Manfred Uschner, Friedel Trappen and Heinz Langer , Latin America: scene of revolutionary struggles , ISBN 978-3-88012-3-694 , Staatsverlag der DDR, 1975
  • Friedel Trappen, The Agrarian Reform in Cuba , in: German Foreign Policy , No. 2, Berlin 1961, pp. 183–193
  • Friedel Trappen and Ulrich Weishaupt, Current Issues of the Struggle for National and Social Liberation in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: German Foreign Policy , Volume 24, Issues 1–6, Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR, Institute for International relations, Rütten & Loening , 1979, pp. 27–39

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marco Wanderwitz, Many of the former National Socialists found a new political home in the SED with the prospect of advancement , speech on the Nazi past in federal ministries, June 30, 2011, website of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag
  2. ^ Documents on the Foreign Policy of the German Democratic Republic , Volume 33, Part 1, German Institute for Contemporary History, German Academy for Political Science and Law "Walter Ulbricht." Institute for International Relations, Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR (Ed.), State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, 1988, p. 373 (snippet)
  3. ↑ Moral Duty , December 25, 1989, Der Spiegel , issue 52/1989
  4. ↑ a b Horst Fabian, The Cuban Development Path: A Contribution to the Concept of Auto-Centered Development , Volume 48: Studies on Social Science , ISBN 978-3-32288-6-408 , Springer-Verlag , 2013, p. 1022 (LitVerz)
  5. ↑ Raimund Teismann, Development of the Socialist Planning System and the Development of Material Production in Cuba , Dissertation, Göttingen 1975

See also

literature

  • Estate Friedel Trappen , Grit Ulrich (arr.), NY 4643, Foundation Archive of Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives, Berlin 2014
  • Hans-Joachim Döring, 'It's about our existence': The GDR's policy towards the Third World using the example of Mozambique and Ethiopia , conversation with Dr. Friedel Trappen (May 19, 1999), ISBN 978-3-86284-0-038 , Ch. Links Verlag , 2010, p. 280 ff
personal data
SURNAME Bustards, Friedel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ummelt
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2013
Place of death Berlin