Klaus Goldenbaum

Klaus Goldenbaum (born March 28, 1928 in Wismar ) is a former German lawyer and diplomat . He was Ambassador of the GDR in Switzerland .

Life

Klaus Goldenbaum was born to Margarete and Ernst Goldenbaum . His father was the KPD functionary and long-time chairman of the DBD in the GDR, his mother was a member of the SED in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1946 to 1950. Klaus Goldenbaum joined the KPD in October 1945. In 1946 he became a member of the SED . In January 1946, Goldenbaum was one of the founders of the Antifa youth committee in Parchim . On March 10, 1946, he was a delegate to the founding congress of the Free German Youth of the State of Mecklenburg in Schwerin .

Goldenbaum graduated from high school in Parchim in 1947 . Goldenbaum then trained as a lawyer and completed his training with the first state examination in law. He then worked in the judicial service of the GDR, from 1950 to 1960 as chief judge and chairman of the criminal senate of the city court in Berlin.

Since 1961, Goldenbaum was an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1962 he worked as Vice Consul at the Consulate General in the United Arab Republic (VAR), from 1965 as Head of Department in the MfAA. From May 1966 to 1969 was head of the Consulate General in the Yemeni Arab Republic . From 1969 to 1975 he worked, among other things, as counselor at UNESCO and temporarily as chargé d'affaires at the embassy in VAR.

From 1976 to 1980 Goldenbaum was head of the Western Europe department at the MfAA. From 1980 to 1984 he was the GDR ambassador in Bern . Goldenbaum was received on June 23, 1980 by the Federal President of the Swiss Confederation, Georges-André Chevallaz , to receive the credentials. On July 16, 1984, the Swiss Federal President, Leon Schlumpf , received Goldenbaum for his farewell visit. Most recently, he worked as a department head at the MfAA.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1980)
• Order Banner of Labor Stage II (1988)

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. 90.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 231.
• Erwin Bischof: Honecker's handshake: Relations between Switzerland and the GDR 1960–1990 . Interforum, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-033-02338-3 , pp. 77, 78, 84, 92, 93, 101 and 105.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Dümcke: First beginnings of secondary school education after liberation from fascism in Parchim ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 142 kB). In: Pädagogisches Kreiskabinett Parchim (ed.): Worth knowing from the city and the Parchim district (1988). 
2. ^ Neues Deutschland (ND), May 6, 1966.
3. ^ ND, June 24, 1980.
4. ^ ND, October 17, 1984.
5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 27, 1988, p. 4.