Hermann Schwiesau

Hermann Schwiesau (* 1937 ) is a former diplomat of the GDR who, among other things, was ambassador several times .

Life

After studying foreign policy from 1962 to 1966 at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR, Hermann Schwiesau joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA) as an employee with the degree "Diplom-Staatswissenschaftler" and found various assignments there and at foreign missions . He also obtained a doctorate in 1975 and received the academic degree Dr. rer. pole. After Siegfried Bock became ambassador to the CSCE negotiations and follow-up conferences in 1972, he took over the post of Head of the Department of Policy Affairs at the MfAA. In 1976 he succeeded Heinz Oelzner as ambassador to Finland and held this position until he was replaced by Joachim Mitdank in 1978. As such, he had the task of developing German-Finnish relations , including a visit from the then President of the Republic of Finland Urho Kekkonen belonged in the GDR. He himself, in turn, replaced Klaus Wolf as ambassador to Afghanistan in June 1978 and remained in this post until his dismissal for health reasons in October 1979, whereupon Kraft Bumbel succeeded him there.

In 1981 Schwiesau succeeded Dietrich Jark as ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and was replaced there by Karl-Heinz Kern in 1982 . Thereupon he took over the post of ambassador to Vietnam from Klaus Zorn in 1982 and held it until 1986, after which Joachim Löschner became his successor. He was then head of the Neighboring Countries department at the MfAA between 1986 and 1990 and, as such, led negotiations with the People's Republic of Poland on the sea areas.

Publications

• The dispute in the Oder bay , in: WeltTrends , No. 25, Winter 1999/2000, pp. 153–167
• GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Part 1: Conversation with diplomats , co-editors Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Berlin, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7539-3
• GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Part 2: Alternative German Foreign Policy? , Co-editors Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9278-4
• GDR foreign policy: an overview. Part 3: Dates, facts, people , co-editors Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-6431-0559-2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bock, Siegfried / Muth, Ingrid / Schwiesau, Hermann (eds.): GDR foreign policy . [Part: III, data, facts, people] Berlin 2010, p. 353, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2
2. ↑ Elke Seefried , Dierk Hoffmann: Plan and planning: German-German anticipations on the future , p. 158, 2018
3. ↑ Peter Lübbe: Cultural foreign relations of the GDR: The example of Finland , Research Institute of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, p. 91, 1981
4. ↑ Dörte Putensen: In the field of conflict between East and West: Finland, the Cold War and the German Question (1947-1973) , p. 426, 2000
5. ↑ Udo Wengst , Hermann Wentker : Das doppelte Deutschland: 40 years of system competition , 2013
6. ↑ Steven R. Galster: Afghanistan, the making of US policy, 1973-1990 , Volume 1, p. 231, 1991
7. ↑ Ellen Ray, William H. Schaap: Covertaction: The Roots of Terrorism , p. 106, 2003
8. ↑ Information. Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations , p. 12, 1981
9. ^ Andreas Herbst, Winfried Ranke, Jürgen R. Winkler: This is how the GDR worked: Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions. Volume II: Join in! Movement - Customs Administration of the GDR , p. 659, 2000
10. ↑ Basil Kerski, Andrzej Kotula, Kazimierz Wóycicki: Forced Prescribed Friendship ?: relations between the GDR and Poland, 1949-1990 , p 57, 2003
11. ↑ Burkhard Olschowsky: Agreement and Conflict: The Relationship between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland 1980-1989 , p. 420, 2005
12. ^ Hermann Wentker: Foreign policy within narrow limits: The GDR in the international system 1949-1989. Publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History , p. 526 u. a., Berlin 2012