Heinz Bauer (diplomat)

Heinz Bauer ( April 11, 1929 - May 16, 1992 ) was a German diplomat . From 1981 to 1986 he was the GDR's ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic .

Life

Bauer, a pedagogue by profession , became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He studied at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam and at the Institute for International Relations in Moscow .

He joined the diplomatic service of the GDR in 1960 and in 1961 became an employee of the embassy in the People's Republic of China in Beijing . From 1963 to 1964 he was Vice Consul in Shanghai . From 1964 to 1966 he worked as a sector manager in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). He then worked until 1973 as an employee of the SED Central Committee .

From 1973 to 1977 he worked as counselor and deputy head of the embassy in the People's Republic of China and from 1977 to 1980 as deputy head of the Far East Department of the MfAA. From September 1981 to December 1986 he worked as ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic. His term of office began with the presentation of the credentials to the Mongolian head of state Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal and ended after five years with a farewell visit to his successor, Jambyn Batmönk . His last position in the diplomatic service of the GDR was from 1987 to 1990 that of the consul general in Leningrad .

Bauer died after a short, serious illness at the age of 63.

Awards

• 1973 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1980 Order " Banner of Labor " level II
• 1989 medal " Star of Friendship of Nations " in silver

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , pp. 12-13.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 31 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 297f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Credentials presented in Ulan Bator . In: Neues Deutschland , September 21, 1981, p. 2.
2. ↑ Ambassador of the GDR in Shambyn Batmunch . In: Neues Deutschland , December 20, 1986, p. 2.
3. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of May 22, 1992, p. 14.