Herbert Krolikowski

Herbert Krolikowski (born March 15, 1924 in Oels , Silesia , † November 28, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat . He was State Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA).

Life

The son of a worker and older brother of Werner Krolikowski completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . In 1942 he was drafted into the RAD and then drafted into the armed forces for military service. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and attended an antifa school there .

In November 1949 he returned to Germany and went to the newly founded German Democratic Republic . He first worked as a commercial clerk at Konsum Malchin . From March to August 1950 he acted as 1st secretary of the DSF district board in Malchin and in 1950 went to Berlin as an instructor or sector manager of the central board of DSF. In 1952/53 he was personal assistant to the Secretary General of DSF, Gottfried Grünberg . In 1952 he became a member of the SED . In 1954/55 he studied at the SED district party school in Berlin.

In 1955 he became an employee of the diplomatic service of the GDR and was attaché and third secretary at the GDR embassy in Moscow until 1958. From 1958 to 1960 he was acting head, 1960/61 head of the 4th European department (Scandinavia) in the MfAA. He completed a distance learning course at DASR in Potsdam in 1959 with a degree in political science. 1962/63 he was head of the 1st European department (USSR) in the MfAA. In 1963 he became Deputy Foreign Minister. From 1967 to 1969 he studied at the Diplomatic College of the USSR and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From August 1969 to October 1973 he worked as the GDR's ambassador to the ČSSR (successor to Peter Florin ). From June 1971 (8th Party Congress) he was a candidate and from May 1976 (9th Party Congress) to December 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED . In November 1973 he was again Deputy Foreign Minister and in January 1975 State Secretary and 1st Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs (successor to Oskar Fischer ). He held this position until February 1990.

In May 1987 he held the office of Secretary General at the regular meeting of the Political Advisory Committee of the States participating in the Warsaw Treaty in Berlin. On May 29, 1987, he handed over the office to the representative of the People's Republic of Poland, Deputy Foreign Minister Henryk Jaroszek.

Awards

• 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1977 in gold
• 1984 Honorary Title Hero of Labor
• 1987 Order Banner of Labor Level I
• 1989 Karl Marx Order

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs , Andreas Herbst :  Krolikowski, Herbert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau (editor): The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 326.
• Herbert Krolikowski , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/2013 from June 18, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 30, 1987, p. 5.