Gerd Vehres

Gerd Vehres (born January 2, 1941 in Berlin ; † October 7, 2009 ) was a German diplomat . He was the last ambassador of the GDR in Hungary .

Life

From 1947 Vehres attended elementary school and then high school (today's Heinz Brand School in Berlin-Weißensee ). In 1959 Vehres passed the Abitur at the workers and farmers faculty in Halle (Saale) . He then worked for a year at the Leuna plants . From 1960 to 1966 he studied at the Institute for International Relations in Moscow with a focus on Hungary and two semesters at the University of Budapest . He completed his studies with a degree in political science.

From 1966 he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . From 1966 to 1970 he worked as an employee in the 2nd European department (neighboring countries), Hungary. From 1970 to 1974 he worked as third or second and first secretary at the embassy of the GDR in Budapest . Between 1974 and 1988 Vehres worked in the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the SED . From August 1988 to September 1990 Vehres was the GDR's ambassador in Budapest. On September 2, 1990, a month before the GDR embassy closed, Vehres returned to Berlin.

From 1992 Vehres worked for a large insurance company based in Vienna and took over its Budapest branch. From 1996 to 1999 he was director of Jauch & Hübener GmbH Budapest and from 1999 to 2004 general director of Aon Consulting Hungary AG.

Vehres was also active for the German Flag Society (DGF). In 2003 the DGF appointed him President of the Organizing Committee of the XXII. International Congress for Flag Studies "FlagBerlin 2007". After the congress, Vehres was elected first chairman of the DGF.

Vehres was married and had two children. He died at the age of 69 and was buried in the Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Works

• Friendship treaties between the GDR and Hungary and Bulgaria . In: German Foreign Policy , Issue 11 (1967), pp. 1298–1304.
• (together with Regina Pätzold): Documents and materials of the cooperation between the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the Romanian Communist Party . 1972 to 1977 . Dietz, Berlin 1979.
• Highest forum for Romanian communists . In: Einheit , Heft 2 (1980), pp. 187-192.
• Hungary's communists discussed future tasks . In: Einheit , Heft 6 (1980), pp. 632-638.
• Romania - 40 years after liberation from fascism . In: Einheit , Heft 8 (1984), pp. 732-736.
• Romanian communists set new goals . In: Einheit , Heft 2 (1985), pp. 167-171.
• XIII. USAP Congress : creative continuity and combative realism . In: Einheit , Heft 6 (1985), pp. 555-559.
• Relations between the GDR and Hungary . In: Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau (Eds.): Alternative German Foreign Policy? GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror (II) . LIT Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 42–59.
• As ambassador in Budapest . In: Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, pp. 56-59

literature

• 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. 360 and 386.

Web links

• Hot chair in Budapest. In conversation with Gerd Vehres, GDR ambassador to Hungary from 1988 to 1990, about August and September 1989, when the mass flight of GDR citizens could no longer be stopped . In: Friday , September 10, 2004.
• In memoriam Gerd Vehres (PDF file; 168 kB). In: Flaggenkurier 3 (2009), p. 3.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hungary's head of state received GDR ambassadors . In: Neues Deutschland , August 30, 1988, p. 2.
2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of October 16, 2009, p. 28.