July Alexandrovich Kwizinsky

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July Alexandrowitsch Kwizinski ( Russian Юлий Александрович Квицинский ; born September 28, 1936 in Rzhev ; † March 3, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Soviet diplomat and politician . He was Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR .

Life

Juli Kwizinski grew up in Krasnoyarsk , where his parents worked at the Siberian Forestry Institute. During the war after 1941 , foreign language learning was dependent on teachers who happened to be hired, and a German teacher was found for Kwizinski. He learned to play the cello and benefited from the contact his parents made with the “old intelligentsia” in Krasnoyarsk, relationships that gave rise to his great interest in Western European history, literature and culture.

With the secondary school leaving certificate he applied for in 1953 for the Moscow State Institute for International Relations ( MGIMO ) - at that time one of the best humanities universities in the country - where he was accepted into the Faculty of International Economic Relations. He learned Norwegian , passionately developed into a Scandinavian specialist and passed the exams of all years of study with honors. During this time, he married Inga Kuznetsova, an aspiring French teacher. An internship abroad at the Soviet Embassy in the GDR was followed by a diploma and doctorate in law in 1959, followed by entry into the diplomatic service with the role of chief interpreter . In 1962 he became cultural attaché for West Berlin . Among the many members of the student movement that a trip to the Soviet Embassy in those years East Berlin made, also was Rudi Dutschke .

Kwizinski left Berlin in September 1965, devoted himself to his dissertation and completed his habilitation in 1968 on West Berlin and his place in the system of current international relations at the GDR Academy for Political Science and Law . When Valentin Falin took over the management of the German department of the Foreign Ministry, he was appointed an expert in that department. However, negotiations like those between Falin and Egon Bahr , which led to the Moscow Treaty , could only be observed from a distance. From March 1970 to August 1971, however, he worked right in the middle of the negotiations on the four-power status of Berlin, writing speeches for the ambassador and being a negotiator in the group of experts for drafting the text of the Berlin Agreement . A detail that he himself contributed was the agreement to open a consulate general of the Soviet Union in West Berlin , which subsequently existed for almost twenty years.

At the beginning of 1973, a one-on-one conversation in Vienna with Jonathan Dean , a diplomat who was regarded as a friend and until then US ambassador in Prague , marked the beginning of the MBFR negotiations recalled. An attempt to become ambassador to Spain failed, instead he was concerned with Genscher agreements and programs for cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany at the beginning of the era . In 1978 Kwizinski was offered to go to Bonn as envoy , "a gloomy place in world politics", as he first said, but which soon came up with activities that were more interesting than expected. As early as September 1981, Andrei Gromyko needed him again in Moscow as ambassador for special use, in the negotiations for nuclear missile disarmament in Europe. A well-known event was a one-on-one conversation that took place between Kwizinski and Paul Nitze on July 16, 1982 on a walk in the forest near Saint-Cergue . The balance of weapons targeted as a "forest variant" found its way into the press and, after the failure of the negotiations, served as a basis for discussion for a repeated attempt. Ronald Reagan's plans to rearm the universe, known under the acronym SDI , raised a new important topic, and in the negotiations between the superpowers, it was up to Juli Kwizinski to conduct the negotiations under the delegation leader Victor Karpov .

In 1986 Kwizinski was again ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany before he rose to the position of First Deputy Foreign Minister in May 1991 - the position in which he saw the end of the Soviet Union. In the following years he remained a staunch communist . From 1997 to 2003 he was the Russian ambassador to Norway. From 2003 he was a member of the CP parliamentary group in the Duma , where he was deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee.

Works

  • (under the pseudonym Viktor N. Beleckij) Socialist diplomacy . State Publishing House of the GDR, East Berlin 1974.
  • (under the pseudonym Viktor N. Vysockij) Terminal company. On the 30th anniversary of the Potsdam Agreement . State extension of the GDR, East Berlin 1975.
  • (under the pseudonym Viktor N. Beleckij) The Policy of the Soviet Union in German Affairs 1945–1976 . East Berlin 1977.
  • Before the storm. Memories of a diplomat . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88680-464-X .

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SURNAME Kwizinski, July Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Квицинский, Юлий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Rzhev
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2010
Place of death Moscow