Fritz Stude

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Fritz Stude (born October 29, 1914 in Zerbst ; † June 15, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat . He was Consul General of the GDR in Leningrad .

Life

Stude, son of a tailor , put in Köthen the High School , and trained as a bank clerk . For conscientious moved in, he came in 1943 as a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht in Soviet captivity . There he attended the anti-fasc school in Krasnogorsk .

In 1950 Stude joined the diplomatic service of the GDR. He was first counselor (third secretary) at the diplomatic mission of the GDR in Prague until 1953 . 1954/55 he worked as head of the department for neighboring countries (people 's democracies ) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1956 to 1958 he was deputy head of the GDR commercial agency in Cairo , then from 1959 to 1962 head of the first non-European department ( Far East ) in the MfAA. 1962/63 he was chargé d'affaires (legation councilor), 1963/64 head of the GDR commercial agency in Algiers . He then headed the First European Department ( Soviet Union ) in the MfAA until 1966 . From 1966 to 1973 he was the first consul general of the GDR in Leningrad. From June 1973 Stude was director of the House of German-Soviet Friendship in Berlin.

Stude was a member of the SED and the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship .

Awards

  • Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1974), silver (1979) and gold (1989)
  • "Order of Friendship of Peoples" of the USSR (1973)

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. 316.
  • 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 , pp. 913f.
  • Ingrid Muth : The GDR Foreign Policy 1949–1972. Contents, structures, mechanisms . 2nd Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-86153-224-8 , p. 316 and passim.

Individual evidence

  1. Berliner Zeitung , June 24, 2006 (obituary).
  2. ^ New Germany , July 12, 1988.
  3. ^ New Germany , March 12, 1983.