Kraft Bumbel
Kraft Bumbel (born October 18, 1926 in Schönborn, Niederlausitz ; † 1997 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to Sri Lanka , Singapore , the Maldives and Afghanistan .
Life
Bumbel attended elementary school and learned the trade of miner . He attended the Air Force NCO school.
After the end of the war he qualified at the workers and farmers faculty of the Freiberg mining academy and graduated from the Berlin School of Economics with a degree in economics.
In 1959 Bumbel joined the diplomatic service of the GDR. 1959/1960 he was an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1960 to 1964 he worked as a press secretary at the GDR commercial agency in India, and from 1966 to 1968 he headed the branch of the GDR commercial agency in Madras . From 1968 to 1970 he worked as Consul General in Colombo . From 1970 to 1973 he worked again in the MfAA. On November 1, 1973, he became the GDR's ambassador in Colombo. He was second accredited as ambassador to Singapore from May 1974 to September 1977 and from 1974 to 1978 in the Maldives . From 1977 to 1979 he worked in the South and Southeast Asia department at the MfAA. From November 26, 1979 to June 1982, he was the GDR's ambassador in Kabul . From 1982 to 1986 he was a political employee in the MfAA and from 13 August 1986 to 1989 again ambassador to Afghanistan.
Bumbel was a member of the SED .
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1976) and in silver (1986)
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. 38.
- 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. 95.
- Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, passim.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horizont (GDR magazine) No. 2/1974.
- ^ New Germany of November 27, 1979.
- ^ New Germany of August 14, 1986.
Ferdinand Thun (1973–1976) | Klaus Wolf (1976–1978) | Hermann Schwiesau (1978–1979) | Kraft Bumbel (1979–1982) | Kurt Krüger (1982–1986) | Kraft Bumbel (1986–1989) | Horst Lindner (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bumbel, force |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönborn, Lower Lusatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1997 |