Heinz Oelzner

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Oelzner (1 row, 5th from right) in the GDR delegation at the Helsinki Conference .

Heinz Oelzner (born July 4, 1921 ; † August 24, 1991 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to Finland and Denmark .

Life

The son of a working-class family learned the trade of a miner after attending primary school . After 1945 he was a pit climber and works manager. In 1947 he became a member of the SED . He attended a technical school, qualified as a mining engineer and was head of the coal headquarters in the Ministry of Heavy Industry until 1955 . From 1955 to 1958 he studied in Moscow with a degree in social science . From 1958 to 1962 Oelzner was first chairman of the district economy council and deputy chairman of the council of the district of Erfurt .

In 1963 he was accepted into the diplomatic service of the GDR. He was an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) and then until 1966 as counselor head of the economic policy department at the GDR embassy in Prague (decision of the 131st meeting of the Presidium of the MR on June 14, 1963). Between 1967 and 1973 he was head of the GDR's commercial agency in Finland . In 1968, plans were drawn up in the GDR trade agency to ensure better influence on leading Finnish social democrats; Heinz Oelzner was assigned for contact with the two most important Finnish social democrats, Rafael Paasio and Mauno Koivisto . After establishing diplomatic relations between Finland and the GDR, Oelzner was ambassador in Helsinki from 1973 to 1976 . During this time, Oelzner formally took over the leadership of the delegation for the GDR in the multilateral consultations for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Helsinki in 1972; the content-related work was coordinated by the head of the HA basic questions / planning in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs MfAA , Professor Siegfried Bock . Subsequently, Oelzner was briefly a political employee in the MfAA and then from 1977 to 1983 ambassador of the GDR in Copenhagen . With Protocol No. 66/89 (circulated on June 14, 1989) of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED, Heinz Oelzner was granted the continuation of the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary a. D. approved.

In 1991 Oelzner died of cancer .

Awards

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. 614.

Web links

Commons : Heinz Oelzner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horizont (GDR magazine) No. 9/1973
  2. ↑ Award list for the honorary title "Honored Miner of the GDR" from 1951 to 1989. (PDF; 915 kB) In: deutsche-gesellschaft-fuer-ordenskunde.de. November 12, 2013, p. 3 .;
  3. ^ New Times of October 6, 1981
personal data
SURNAME Oelzner, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR in Finland and Denmark
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1921
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1991