Herbert Meyer (diplomat)

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Herbert Meyer (born November 6, 1912 in Hamburg ; † November 2, 1983 ) was a foreign trade politician in the GDR . He was general director of the Chamber for Foreign Trade and the Office for Foreign Economic Relations of the GDR.

Life

Meyer was a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. While in captivity, he joined the National Committee for Free Germany .

After returning to the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 , he became a member of the SED . Meyer was a co-founder and until 1950 head of the Mecklenburg industrial office. Subsequently, he was involved in setting up the Association of People's Own Collection and Acquisition Operations (VVEAB) in Berlin and, as managing director, was responsible for the purchase of plant products.

From 1951 to 1955 he headed the main department for Western Foreign Countries in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade (MAI). On October 12, 1954, he was received by the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade in New Delhi . On October 15, 1954, in New Delhi, he signed a goods agreement between the GDR and India and agreed to set up a GDR commercial agency in Bombay with an agency in Calcutta . In August 1955 he was appointed by Minister Heinrich Rau to the trade council and first head of the GDR trade agency in India . He held this position until April 1958. From 1958 to 1961 he was general secretary of the Society for Cultural Relations with Abroad . From 1962 to 1968 he was the main department head at MAI and was a member of the Presidium of the German-Arab and German-Nordic Society. From 1961 he was also Vice President of the German-Latin American Society. In 1968 he acted as General Director of the Transinter Foreign Trade Agency, in 1969 as General Director of the Chamber of Foreign Trade and from 1970 to 1979 as General Director of the Office for Foreign Economic Relations.

Awards

Works

  • The prospects of our trade with the Republic of India . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , 5/6 (1956), p. 167ff.

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 209.
  • 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. 541.
  • Johannes H. Voigt : The India policy of the GDR. From the beginning to the recognition (1952–1972) . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2008, passim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The agricultural producer prices - WEAB purchase plans for plant products . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 5, 1950, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1954, p. 5 and Berliner Zeitung , 17. October 1954, p. 2.
  3. ^ New Germany , August 28, 1955, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, foreign trade politician of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1983