Karl-Heinz Witzke

Karl-Heinz Witzke (* 1938 ) is a former German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador in Mali , Mauritania , Burkina Faso and Niger .

Life

Witzke completed an apprenticeship as a steel shipbuilder and worked in this profession until 1959. From 1959 to 1962 he studied at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , graduating as a graduate teacher . In 1963/1964 he worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and in 1964/1965 as a teacher at the SED Cottbus district party school . Between 1965 and 1967 he completed a postgraduate degree in foreign policy at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

From 1968 Witzke worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). In 1968/69 he was an attaché at the GDR embassy in Hanoi . From 1969 to 1971 research assistant at one of the deputy foreign ministers of the GDR. From 1971 to 1976 he was deputy head ( consul ) at the Consulate General of the GDR in Leningrad . From 1976 to 1981 he worked as a sector manager in the information / documentation department at the MfAA. From 1981 to 1984 he was first secretary at the embassy of the GDR in Rabat ( Morocco ). From 1985 to 1989 Witzke was ambassador of the GDR in the Malian capital Bamako and from there he was accredited second in Mauritania, from 1987 also in Burkina Faso and from 1988 also in Niger. In 1989/90 he worked as a sector manager in the North and West Africa department at the MfAA.

Witzke was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany .

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 , p. 367.