Harald Rose (diplomat)

Harald Rose (born May 4, 1927 in Dannheim , Thuringia ; † January 5, 2020 there ) was a diplomat of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

After attending elementary school, Rose became a farm worker. He earned his Abitur at a workers and farmers faculty . He then studied law and received his doctorate in 1964. jur. From 1954 to 1960 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) as an employee in the legal and contract department. From 1960 to 1963 he was delegated as a lecturer at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg. From 1965 to 1968 he was a permanent observer of the GDR at the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva , afterwards Rose worked as a research assistant in the department of fundamental questions at the MfAA and from 1971 to 1982 headed the department for international organizations at the MfAA. From 1982 to 1987 he was head of the permanent representation of the GDR to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva and from 1983 also ambassador to the Geneva Committee on Disarmament . From 1988 to 1990 he headed the UN department of the MfAA.

Rose was a member of the SED . He died on January 5, 2020 in his birthplace, Dannheim.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1971) and in silver (1977)
• Silver Star of Friendship of Nations (1985)
• Banner of Labor (1987)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR

literature

• 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. 731.
• 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. 346.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the nd on January 11, 2020, p. 6.