Josef Zimmering
Josef Zimmering (born May 19, 1911 in Pirna , † 1995 in Dresden ) was a German politician , diplomat and translator . He was legation councilor and permanent representative of the GDR at the UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva .
Life
Josef Zimmering was born as one of three sons of the watchmaker Adolf Zimmering and his wife Cejta, both from Horodenka ( Galicia ). He was the younger brother of Fred and Max Zimmering and the cousin of Hans and Max Dankner , Lea Grundig and Bruno Goldhammer .
After his father was called up for military service in the First World War and had to give up his business, his mother and children moved to relatives in Dresden in May 1915. Because of his mother's serious illness, the brothers were raised by relatives. The three brothers had become communists at a young age. After his brother Fred and his cousin Hans Dankner had already joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1927 , he and his brother Max joined the KJVD in July 1928. During a sticky note campaign about the upcoming state elections in Saxony in July 1930, he was picked up by the police and had to leave high school a few months before graduation. On the basis of a joint application from the KPD and SPD parliamentary groups, he was able to take the Abitur as an external student at another Dresden grammar school.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he had to emigrate . On the recommendation of the then KPD political leader of the Dresden-Johannstadt district, Arno Schönherr , he and his brother Max traveled by train to France in May 1933. They arrived in Paris on May 19, 1933 - his 22nd birthday . Her brother Fred followed two months later. Josef Zimmering then emigrated to Czechoslovakia and from 1939 to England. In both countries he was active in the FDJ . It was only after 13 years that he was able to return home from England in 1946.
In the Soviet zone of occupation he became a member of the SED . From 1952 to December 1954 he was deputy chairman of the council of Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt and was responsible for public education and culture. He then entered the diplomatic service of the GDR and served from February 1955 to October 1959 with the rank of Legation Councilor as permanent representative of the GDR to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva. On October 28, 1959, Josef Zimmering and Walter Beling paid a visit to the Swiss Minister Robert Kohli . Zimmering introduced his successor. The GDR representatives suggested u. a. proposed the establishment of consulates, whereupon Kohli recommended that no such proposals be made at the moment, as the Federal Council would reject them.
Zimmering then worked as head of the International Relations Department in the General Secretariat and the Presidium of the German Red Cross in the GDR (DRK). On January 28, 1963, when the Albert Schweitzer Committee was constituted at the Presidium of the DRK in the GDR, he was appointed Secretary of the Committee. He later worked as a translator.
He is the grandfather of actors David Zimmering and Esther Zimmering .
Awards
- 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
literature
- Max Zimmering. We love our time . Poems, stories, memories, letters. Published by Zora Zimmering, Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, 1979, p. 59ff.
Movie
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , October 8, 1954.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmering, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pirna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | Dresden |