Karl Speiser

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Karl Speiser (born June 22, 1914 in Augsburg , † after 1989) was a German diplomat . He was the ambassador of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the Mongolian People's Republic (MVR).

Life

Speiser learned the trade of printer after attending elementary school . During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and had to do military service. He defected to the Red Army and was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

After his return to the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany, he took part in the development of the country in Dresden . He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and worked as a foreign trade official after the GDR was founded. In May 1951 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA), where he initially worked in the Western Europe department (responsible for Great Britain). As the main advisor in Department I (Neighboring Countries) of the MfAA, he prepared Otto Grotewohl's first visit to Prague in 1956 . He then worked at the embassy of the GDR in Moscow and from 1958 to January 1961 served as counselor and first secretary at the embassy of the GDR in Prague. On January 10, 1961, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED decided to act as ambassador to the MVR and on February 9, 1961, he was appointed ambassador to the MVR by the Chairman of the GDR State Council , Walter Ulbricht . On March 2, 1961, he presented the Mongolian head of state, Jamsrangiin Sambuu , with his credentials. He held this position until he was recalled in September 1964. He then worked in the administration of the MfAA, most recently as deputy head of department. In June 1989 he was retired and was allowed the title of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary a. D. continue.

Fonts

  • 40 Years of the Mongolian People's Republic In: German Foreign Policy (1961), Issue 8, pp. 960–966.

Awards

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 321.
  • Eberhard Funk: The German League for the United Nations (= Politica series , volume 25). Kovač, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-86064-535-8 , p. 326.
  • Henning Hoff: Great Britain and the GDR 1955–1973. Diplomacy in a roundabout way . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56737-3 , p. 143 and passim.
  • 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. 355.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dierk Hoffmann: Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964): Einepolitische Biographie , p. 631.
  2. ↑ Minutes No. 2/61 of the meeting of the Politburo on January 10, 1961. - Federal Archives.
  3. ^ Walter Ulbricht appointed ambassador. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 10, 1961, p. 2.
  4. ^ GDR ambassador to D. Sambu. In: Neues Deutschland , March 3, 1961, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Protocol No. 66/89 of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED of June 14, 1989 - Federal Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Speiser, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1989