Horst Neumann (diplomat)
Horst Neumann (actually Horst-Heinz Neumann ; born December 22, 1938 in Landsberg an der Warthe , Neumark ) is a former German diplomat . He was the ambassador of the German Democratic Republic in several South American countries.
Life
Horst Neumann was born into a family of teachers. He attended elementary school in Bernstein and - after relocating from Neumark - in Harzgerode . After attending secondary school, he earned his Abitur in 1956 at the Landesheim-Oberschule Pforte . In 1956 he began studying at the Institute for International Relations at the German Academy for Political Science and Law , which he graduated in 1960 with a degree in political science. He then worked at the Ludwigsfelde industrial plant as an unskilled worker in the production of motor scooters.
In February 1961 he became an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1962 to 1963 he was delegated as attaché to the embassy in Moscow and then worked in the Latin America department of the MfAA. From 1965 to 1967 he was a commercial attaché and deputy head of the GDR commercial agency in the Colombian capital Bogotá , then again an employee and sector manager in the Latin America department of the MfAA. From 1969 to 1971 he completed an additional evening course in economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1971 to 1975 he worked again in Bogotá, initially as Deputy Secretary to the Head of the Trade Mission. Neumann led the negotiations for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Colombia and the GDR and, after the successful conclusion of the negotiations, opened the GDR embassy on April 11, 1973 as chargé d'affaires and first secretary. From 1975 to 1982 he worked again in the Latin America department of the MfAA, interrupted by attending the SED district party school in Potsdam from 1980 to 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he was ambassador in Caracas and second accredited in Guyana and then until 1988 as ambassador in Buenos Aires active. He then became head of the Latin America department at the MfAA.
From 1991 to 1993 he completed a retraining course as a businessman in the real estate and housing industry and then worked for the Berlin housing company ARWOBAU until his retirement in December 2003. Neumann now lives in Berlin as a pensioner.
Neumann had been a member of the SED since 1962. He belongs to the permanent circle of authors of the communist-socialist monthly RotFuchs .
Awards
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1973)
- Argentine Order de Mayo al Mérito (1988)
literature
- 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 , pp. 338 and 385.
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR embassy in Colombia . In: Neues Deutschland , April 13, 1973, p. 2.
Otto Pfeiffer (1977–1981) | Horst Neumann (1982–1984) | Günther Severin (1984–1989) | Joachim Naumann (1989–1990)
Heinz Langer (1975–1979) | Otto Pfeiffer (1980–1981) | Horst Neumann (1982–1984) | Werner Hänold (1984–1989)
Günter Blum (1973–1979) | Johannes Gompert (1980–1984) | Horst Neumann (1984–1988) | Walter Neumann (1988–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neumann, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neumann, Horst-Heinz (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg an der Warthe , Neumark |