Hans Jagenow

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Hans Jagenow (born June 17, 1938 in Bublitz , Köslin district , Pomerania ) is a former youth functionary and diplomat of the GDR , who was head of the Office for Youth Affairs at the Council of Ministers between 1975 and 1981 and Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1983 to 1987 .

Life

Hans Jagenow, son of a pipe fitter, attended elementary school and joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) as a member in 1952 . Like his father, he completed vocational training as a pipe fitter between 1952 and 1955 and completed it as a skilled worker. He then attended the Workers and Farmers Faculty (ABF) Greifswald from 1955 to 1958 , where he graduated from high school. He then began studying at the University of Economics (HfÖ) in Berlin-Karlshorst in 1958, graduating in 1962 with a degree in economics . He was also the first secretary of the FDJ basic organization (FDJ-GO) at the HfÖ Berlin-Karlshorst between 1959 and 1961 and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1960 . After completing an internship at the Dresden District Council between 1961 and 1962 , he was 1st Secretary of the FDJ basic organization at VEB Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Berlin-Marzahn from 1963 to 1964 .

In 1964 Jagenow moved to the FDJ district leadership in Berlin , where he was head of department between 1964 and 1965 and secretary in 1965, before he was second secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Berlin from 1966 to 1969. He then moved to the Central Council of the FDJ and was initially head of the Central Working Group in the Central Council of the FDJ between 1969 and 1972 and secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ from 1972 to 1975. He subsequently remained a member of the Central Council and a member of the office of the Central Council of the FDJ between 1975 and 1981. In 1975 he took over the position of Head of the Office for Youth Issues at the Council of Ministers from Helmut Oppermann , which he also held until 1981. After completing a course at the SED party college "Karl Marx" between 1982 and 1983 , he replaced Günter Mauersberger as ambassador to Ethiopia in 1983 and remained in this post until 1987, when Wolfgang Bayerlacher succeeded him there. From 1987 to 1990 he was a political assistant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in 1990 he was briefly employed in the diplomatic club in Zeuthen . After the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1990, he worked for a time in a real estate company owned by the businessman Abdul Majid Younes from Palestine .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Herms, Karla Pop: Westarbeit der FDJ, 1946 to 1989: a documentation , p. 372, 1997
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Berghofer : No piece in the chess game: How I experienced the "turning point" , 2014
  3. ↑ Radoslav A. Yordanov: The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War: Between Ideology and Pragmatism , p. 219, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Jagenow, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and youth functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bublitz , District of Köslin , Pomerania