Gerhard Schramm (diplomat)
Gerhard Schramm (born March 5, 1923 in Zschopau ; † June 12, 2010 ) was a German diplomat and foreign trade official. He was the GDR's ambassador in France and Austria .
Life
The son of a worker, a lithographer by trade , was called up for the Reich Labor Service in 1941 and then for military service in the Wehrmacht . In 1943 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets .
In 1945 he returned to Germany fighting on the side of the Red Army . Schramm became a member of the SED and attended the German Administration Academy in Forst Zinna . Between 1959 and 1963 he completed a distance learning course at the Berlin School of Economics , which he graduated with a degree in economics.
From 1946 to 1948 he worked as an employee in the state administration or state government of Saxony and from 1949 as an employee in the foreign trade apparatus of the GDR. From 1956 to 1959 he was deputy head and from 1962 to 1965 as a trade council head of the representation of the Chamber for Foreign Trade (KfA) of the GDR in Brussels . In the meantime, he worked from 1959 to 1962 as a department head and from 1965/66 as area director in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade in the GDR . From 1967 to 1973 he headed the KfA representation in Paris as a commercial councilor or envoy . After establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of France and the GDR Schramm was established in March 1973 as Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Chargé d' appointed the GDR in France. From 1974 to 1976 he was the deputy head of department for Western Europe in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) and from March 1976 to May 1983 he was ambassador of the GDR in Austria, and until 1982 also at the UN and other international organizations in Vienna . In 1983/1984 he worked as a research assistant in the MfAA and was vice-president of the GDR-Italy Society.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1970) and in silver (1973)
- Order " Star of Friendship of Nations " in gold (1983)
- Large Decoration of Honor in Gold on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (1983)
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. 287.
- 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 , p. 812.
- 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 , p. 350.
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from June 19, 2010.
- ^ The morning of March 20, 1981.
- ^ New Germany of March 6, 1973.
- ^ New Germany of March 19, 1985.
Gerhard Schramm (1973–1974) | Ernst Scholz (1974–1976) | Werner Fleck (1976-1984) | Alfred Marter (1984–1990)
Werner Fleck (1973–1976) | Gerhard Schramm (1976–1983) | Horst Grunert (1983–1986) | Klaus Wolf (1986–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schramm, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and foreign trade official, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zschopau |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 2010 |