Hans-Dieter Jäger

Hans-Dieter Jäger (* 1936 ) is a German diplomat .

Life

Jäger was born in 1936 in the Berlin area as the son of a worker. From 1950 to 1953 he completed an apprenticeship as a salesman in the GDR ; 1953 joined the SED . Between 1953 and 1956 he attended the workers-and-farmers faculty , which he left after passing his Abitur. In the same year he began his studies at the State Institute for International Relations in Moscow , specializing in Japan , which he graduated in 1962 with a degree in political science.

From 1962 Jäger was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; until 1963 he was a consultant for the first non-European department (Far East) . From 1963 to 1966 he was attaché or 3rd secretary at the embassy in China . After his return in 1966, he became an assistant to the State Secretary and worked in the 6th Non-European Department (USA, Canada, Japan). In 1970 he moved back to the embassy in China as secretary; he held this position until 1973. 1974 to 1976 he was counselor at the embassy in Japan. He then returned to the GDR and was section head or deputy head of the USA / Japan department in the ministry from 1977 to 1981 . 1981 to 1982 he was envoy at the embassy in Japan; on December 27, 1982 he was appointed ambassador of the GDR to Japan. Hans-Dieter Jäger pursued this activity until July 1988 and then returned to the GDR, where he was deputy head of the USA, Canada and Japan department until 1989 and again head of the MfAA section from 1990 onwards.

literature

• Siegfried Bock u. a. (Ed.): GDR foreign policy. An overview. Volume III, data, facts, people. LIT, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 ( Political Science. Volume 173)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} p. Also steel : WDR 5 Morgenecho on May 11, 2009, http://www.wdr5.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Sendung/Morgenecho/2009/05/Manuskripte/05_11_Serie_Die%20deutsche%20Republik_Teil1.pdf .