Hildegard Kiermeier

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Hildegard Kiermeier , also Hilde Kiermeier (* 1932 ; † 1990 ) was a diplomat of the German Democratic Republic . As Secretary General, she headed the UNESCO Commission of the GDR.

Life

Kiermeier studied at the Institute for International Relations (IBB). Since 1956 she worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA).

In November 1972, the GDR joined UNESCO and the following year it was decided to found a national UNESCO commission. Kiermeier was its first and long-standing Secretary General. That gave her the rank of ambassador. In May 1990 Kiermeier took early retirement. She died that same year. Your short-term and only successor in office was Heinz Jung . After that, the GDR organization was absorbed into the German UNESCO Commission .

Alongside Aenne Kundermann , Eleonore Staimer and Eleonora Schmid, Kiermeier was one of four women with the rank of ambassador in the history of the GDR.

Her brother was the SED functionary and member of the People's Chamber, Heinz Eichler . Her sister Gerda was the wife of the DKP politician Herbert Mies .

Publications (selection)

  • The UNESCO without China and GDR. In: German foreign policy. Volume 2, Issue 2, 1957, pp. 131-137.
  • New trends in the work of the International Labor Organization. In: German foreign policy. Volume 5, Issue 9, 1960, pp. 1040-1044.
  • On the work of the World Health Organization. In: German foreign policy. Volume 9, Rütten & Loening, 1964, p. 671.
  • UNESCO rejects extortion. In: Foreign policy correspondence. ed. from the Press and Information Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1985, p. 8.
  • The role of UNESCO in the present and the cooperation of the GDR. In: UNESCO: 40 Years of Working for Peace and Cooperation; Balance sheet u. Employee d. GDR. ed. by the UNESCO Commission of the GDR, Berlin: Panorama DDR - Dresden: Verl. Zeit im Bild, 1986, p. 22.
  • Results of the 24th General Conference of UNESCO - Problems and Tasks. In: UN balance sheet 1987/88. ed. by the League for the United Nations in the GDR in cooperation with the Institute for International Relations, Berlin (East), pp. 53–58.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ingrid Muth : The GDR foreign policy 1949-1972: Contents, structures, mechanisms. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8615-3224-7 , p. 313.
  2. ↑ Dieter Offenhäußer: Learning objective : cosmopolitanism: fifty years of German participation in UNESCO, short chronicle of membership of the GDR (1972–1990). 2001, p. 63.
  3. ↑ 60 years of German participation in UNESCO .
  4. ^ Ingrid Muth: The GDR foreign policy 1949-1972: Contents, structures, mechanisms , p. 170, Ch. Links Verlag, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Kiermeier, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiermeier, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
DATE OF DEATH 1990