Horst Bittner
Horst Bittner (born June 14, 1927 in Taucha near Leipzig ; † April 16, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ) and diplomat . From 1965 to 1974 he was the GDR's ambassador to the Soviet Union .
Life
Bittner, son of a laborer, learned after visiting the elementary school to the job of an offset printer as . After the end of the war and the replacement of the American by Soviet occupation troops in July 1945, Bittner became involved in the anti-fascist youth in his home region. In 1946 he joined the SED. Bittner graduated from the workers and farmers faculty in Leipzig and later studied economics at the University of Leipzig . In 1949 he completed his studies with a degree in economics.
From 1949 to 1957 he was an employee and later head of the USSR department in the Ministry of Foreign and Inner German Trade . In 1954, Bittner was director of the GDR industrial exhibition in Moscow . In 1957 Bittner entered the diplomatic service and until 1963 was a trade attaché and deputy head of the GDR trade agency in Moscow. From 1964 to 1965 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign and Internal German Trade in the GDR. He was then from August 1965 to March 1974 ambassador of the GDR in Moscow. From 1974 to 1984 Bittner was head of the division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR and finally from 1984 to 1990 commercial counselor at the GDR embassy in Prague .
From 1971 to 1976 Bittner was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . Bittner died at the age of 85 and was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery Georgen-Parochial II in Berlin.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1965) and in silver (1970)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples of the USSR (1974)
- Honorary title of Honored Employee in Commerce of the German Democratic Republic (1987)
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. 26.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 64.
- Andreas Herbst : Bittner, Horst . 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: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 293.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GDR-ČSFR trade war should be avoided . In: Neues Deutschland , July 10, 1990, p. 4.
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of April 27, 2013.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 13, 1974, p. 2.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 16, 1987, p. 2.
Rudolf Appelt (1949–1955) | Johannes König (1955–1959) | Rudolf Dölling (1959–1965) | Horst Bittner (1965–1974) | Harry Ott (1974–1981) | Egon Winkelmann (1981–1987) | Gerd König (1987–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bittner, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) and diplomat, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taucha |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin |