Kurt Boettger

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the river German football player, see Kurt Böttger (football player) .

Kurt Böttger (born October 5, 1923 in Helfta , Mansfelder Seekreis , † 1993 ) was a German diplomat . He was Ambassador of the GDR in the Sudan and in Switzerland .

Life

Böttger was a seaman in the Navy and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . After 1945 he initially worked as an arc welder in the Mansfeld combine.

After studying advertising economics, he worked for the Ministry for Foreign and Internal German Trade from 1953 and for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) from 1961 . From 1954 he was an employee of the commercial agency in Cairo , from 1956/1957 commercial attaché at the commercial agency in the Sudanese capital Khartoum . From 1957 to 1960 he headed the commercial agency in Beirut . He then worked as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary with special tasks in Ethiopia and the Republic of the Congo . From 1962 to 1965 he headed the commercial agency in India as a trade councilor , and from 1965 to 1966 he headed the second non-European department ( Southeast Asia ) in the MfAA. After studying with a degree in social science, he was the GDR's ambassador in Khartoum from 1970 to 1973. In 1973 he headed the fourth non-European department ( Africa ) in the MfAA, and from 1973 to 1984 the North and West Africa department in the MfAA. From 1984 to 1986 he finally worked as the GDR's ambassador in Bern .

Böttger was a member of the SED .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1966) and in silver (1983)
• Order Banner of Labor (1973)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 29.
• 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. 77.
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 294.