Gerhard Stein (diplomat)

Gerhard Stein (born November 28, 1922 in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. , † January 19, 1987 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to several countries in southern Africa .

Life

Stein did military service in the Wehrmacht from 1941 and was taken prisoner by the Americans . After the war ended, he joined the SED in 1946 . Between 1946 and 1960 he was a teacher and later director of an EOS . He completed a distance learning course at the Pedagogical University in Potsdam .

From 1960 he was a member of the diplomatic service of the GDR and an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . From 1964 he worked as second secretary or counselor at the GDR embassy in Zanzibar , and from 1965 as the acting head of the GDR consulate general in Zanzibar. He later worked at GDR representations in Egypt , Tanzania and Guinea . From 1974 to 1979 he was ambassador of the GDR in Zambia , from May 1977 additionally in Lesotho and from October 1977 additionally accredited in Botswana .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1976)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR

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. 307.
• 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. 888.
• 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. 356.