Horst Grunert
Horst Grunert (born April 10, 1928 in Berlin ; † September 19, 2005 there ) was a German diplomat . He was ambassador of the German Democratic Republic in the USA , Canada and Austria .
Life
Grunert, son of a working-class family, was called up as a flak helper between 1944 and 1945 after completing his Abitur . After the end of the Second World War , he trained as a new teacher and worked as a history teacher in the Perleberg district . 1950/1951 he attended a course at the party college of the SED.
From 1951 he was an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) and from 1953 to 1956 second secretary at the embassy in Warsaw , from 1956 to 1957 second secretary at the commercial agency in Finland . In a correspondence course from 1955 to 1958 at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg, he obtained his degree in political science . From 1958 to 1961 he headed the office of Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz and from 1961 to 1962 he worked for the representation of the Chamber of Foreign Trade in Great Britain . From 1963 to 1965 he was head of the cultural department of the MfAA, from 1965 to 1968 he was consul general head of the consulate general in Syria . In 1971 Grunert received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pol and worked from 1968 to 1972 as director of the Center for Information and Documentation of the MfAA. 1972/1973 he was head of the GDR's permanent observer mission to the UN in New York . From 1974 to 1978 Grunert was Deputy Foreign Minister and from 1978 to 1983 Ambassador to the USA with a second accreditation in Canada . From 1983 to 1986 he was ambassador to Vienna . From 1986 to 1990 Grunert was a professor at the Institute for International Relations at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg, and in 1990 he became President of the League for Friendship of Nations of the GDR.
Grunert was a member of the SED .
Awards
- 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1973: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1978: Banner of Labor Stage I
- 1986: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
- 1988: Star of Friendship between Nations in gold
literature
- Horst Grunert: For Honecker on smooth parquet. Memories of a GDR diplomat . 2nd, corrected edition. Edition Ost, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-929161-23-0 .
- 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. 308.
- Short biography for: Grunert, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 6, 1973, p. 7
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 26, 1978, p. 6
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
- ^ New Germany, April 30th / April 1st. May 1988, p. 3
Horst Grunert (1972/73; Head of the Permanent Observer Mission ) | Peter Florin (1973–1982) | Harry Ott (1982–1988) | Siegfried Zachmann (1988–1990)
Werner Fleck (1973–1976) | Gerhard Schramm (1976–1983) | Horst Grunert (1983–1986) | Klaus Wolf (1986–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grunert, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 2005 |
| Place of death | Berlin |