Irmgard Sickert

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Irmgard Sickert (born November 2, 1922 - † June 12, 2002 ) was a German diplomat . She was consul general of the GDR in Kiev .

Life

Sickert was born the daughter of a lathe operator . In 1933 she emigrated with her parents via Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union . Her father Alfred Sickert , a communist who fought in the International Brigades , was interned in Switzerland during the war . Irmgard Sickert attended the Karl Liebknecht School in Moscow and from 1940 studied at the Institute for Foreign Languages . From September to November 1944 she took the first course at Institute 99 in Moscow.

She returned to Germany in 1947 and became a member of the SED . She initially worked as an editor at Leipziger Rundfunk and then studied social sciences at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1951 she joined the diplomatic service of the GDR. She initially held various functions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) and in the foreign service: among other things, she was head of the press department, head of the foreign propaganda department in main department V, press attaché at the GDR embassy in Prague and second secretary of the embassy Embassy of the GDR in Beijing . From 1960 to 1962 she was head of the America department at the MfAA, then acting head of the Far East department in 1964 and deputy department head there until 1966. From 1966 to 1973 she served as the GDR's consul general in Kiev and was then head of the parliamentary and communal foreign relations working group in the MfAA.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 301.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 859.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , June 27, 2002 (obituary).
  2. ^ Wolfgang Leonhard : The revolution dismisses its children . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-46201-802-7 , p. 166.
  3. ↑ Natalja Mussienko, Alexander Vatlin : School of Dreams. The Karl Liebknecht School in Moscow (1924–1938) . Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2005, ISBN 978-3-78151-368-6 , p. 192.
  4. ^ Jörg Morré: Behind the Scenes of the National Committee. The Institute 99 in Moscow and the German policy of the USSR 1943–1946 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-64582-X , p. 208.
  5. ^ New Germany , October 6, 1987, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Sickert, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, consul general
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1922
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2002