Herbert Plaschke

Herbert Plaschke (born October 5, 1929 in Riegersdorf , Czechoslovakia , † 2010 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to Hungary and Romania .

Life

Plaschke was born as the son of the Sudeten German bricklayer and later GDR state functionary Ernst Plaschke (1906–1988) and Emmi Plaschke (1908–1984). He studied economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In the early 1950s he was lecturer in the party cabinet of the SED district leadership in Berlin .

In 1955 Plaschke joined the diplomatic service of the GDR . He was initially an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA), then from 1957 third secretary at the GDR embassy in Bucharest . From 1962 to 1967 he was head of the 5th European Department ( Western Europe ) at the MfAA. From 1967 to 1973 he was ambassador to Budapest , from 1973 to 1975 he was head of the parliamentary and municipal foreign relations department and from 1975 to 1984 he was head of the western Europe department at the MfAA. From November 1984 to 1990 he was ambassador to Bucharest. On May 23, 1990, he was recalled as ambassador to the de Maizière government and given early retirement. He was granted the right to a. D. continue.

Plaschke was a member of the SED . He last lived in Berlin and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery.

Fonts

• (together with Dieter Klein ): Bonn - Paris. Axis of monopoly . Dietz, Berlin 1964.
• The background, methods and goals of the current policy of German imperialism towards the Romanian People's Republic . Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Philosophical Faculty, dissertation dated March 31, 1965.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1969), silver (1979) and gold (1989)

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 , p. 244.
• Gabriele Baumgartner: Plaschke, Herbert . In: dies., Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 652.
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 342.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of March 29, 1988.
2. ↑ 8th meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 23, 1990 - BArch DC 20-I / 3/2956.
3. ↑ tomb at trillion Graves (accessed on 31 December 2017).
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1989, p. 3.