Georgi Maximovich Pushkin

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Pushkin walking through an honorary company of the People's Police, 1949

Georgy Pushkin ( Russian Георгий Максимович Пушкин ; born January 21 . Jul / 3. February  1909 greg. In Malaya Konopljanka, Smolensk , † 2. April 1963 in Moscow ) was a Soviet diplomat and politician .

Pushkin, previously ambassador to Budapest, was the first diplomatic representative of the USSR in East Berlin from November 4, 1949 to May 31, 1952 . Between 1952 and 1954 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the USSR under Foreign Ministers Andrei Vyshinsky and Vyacheslav Molotov . In 1954 the diplomatic mission in the GDR was raised to the rank of an embassy and Pushkin was appointed "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the German Democratic Republic and High Commissioner in Germany". Between 1959 and 1963, Pushkin was Deputy Foreign Minister under Andrei Gromyko .

literature

  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Who was who in the GDR? A lexicon of East German biographies, 2 vols., Here vol. 2, Berlin 2010, p. 796.

Remarks

  1. ↑ d-nb.info
personal data
SURNAME Pushkin, Georgi Maximowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пушкин, Георгий Максимович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Malaya Konoplyanka, Smolensk Governorate
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1963
Place of death Moscow