Heinz-Dieter Winter

Heinz-Dieter Winter (born November 23, 1934 in Wittenberge , Prignitz) is a former GDR diplomat, ambassador to Cambodia , Tunisia , Syria and Jordan and deputy minister for foreign affairs.

Life

After graduating from high school, Winter studied history and Slavic studies from 1955 to 1959 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . He was there in 1965 for Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1960 to 1990 he worked in the foreign service of the German Democratic Republic: 1961 to 1962 attaché to the embassy in Vietnam , 1966 to 1967 1st secretary of the diplomatic mission in Algeria , 1968 to 1971 first representative, then ambassador of the GDR in Cambodia, 1973 to 1976 Ambassador to Tunisia, 1977 to 1981 Ambassador to Syria and Jordan, 1981 to 1986 initially Deputy, then Head of the Middle East Department in the Foreign Ministry of the GDR and 1986 to 1990 Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs .

He is a member of the Association for International Politics and International Law. V., the Middle East Forum Berlin e. V. and the "Initiative of Diplomats for Peace with the Islamic World."

Winter is the author of publications on problems in the Near and Middle East and Islamism .

Winter has been the owner of the Deutschboden residential area in the Schorfheide since the mid-1980s and appears as such in the film adaptation of Moritz von Uslar's Roman Deutschboden, named after this residential area .

Publications

• The Near and Middle East at the end of the East-West conflict. Political and ideological orientations of the region between Maghreb and Gulf. trafo verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89626-193-2 .
• From Hanoi to Damascus. Stations of a diplomat in the German Democratic Republic. Association for International Politics and International Law, Berlin 2013.
• Memories from headquarters. Part I: The path of a GDR diplomat in the time of "glasnost" and "perestroika". Association for International Politics and International Law, Berlin 2014.
• Memories from headquarters. Part II: Diplomatic work in times of crisis and "turning point". Association for international politics and international law V., Berlin 2014.
• My childhood in Wittenberge in 1945 . In: Prgnitzer Heimat, issue 64, 2018

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner: Winter, Heinz-Dieter. In: 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. 1014.
• Winter Heinz-Dieter (born 1934). In: Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau (eds.): GDR foreign policy. An overview. Dates, facts, people (III) (= political science. Volume 173). Lit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , pp. 366 and 386. (digitized version )

Web links

• Winter Dr., Heinz-Dieter. erinnerungsbibliothek-ddr.de