Gerhard Krausse
Gerhard Krausse (also: Krauße ; * July 1, 1926 in Teichwolframsdorf ; † March 5, 2012 ) was a German diplomat . He was Ambassador of the GDR in Chad .
Life
Krausse, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school . He worked as an administrative clerk. On April 20, 1944, like many Hitler Youths born in 1926 and 1927, he was accepted into the NSDAP . After 1945 he joined the SED , studied and graduated in 1962 with a degree in political science.
Since 1962 he was an employee of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). At first he worked as an employee of the embassy in Bucharest and then as the acting head of the GDR commercial agency in Guinea . From 1971 to 1976 he was ambassador to N'Djamena . Krausse then became head of the information service and press evaluation department at the MfAA.
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 174.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 435.
- Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, p. 405.
- Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 325.
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of March 17, 2012.
Gerhard Krausse (1971–1976) | Helmut Plettner (1976–1979) | Wolfgang Hückel (1979–1982) | Horstmar Kohl (1989–1990)
The embassy was not manned from 1982 to 1989.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krausse, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krauße, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR in Chad |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teichwolframsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 2012 |