Kurt Enkelmann
Kurt Enkelmann (born January 14, 1920 , † January 8, 2004 ) was a German politician ( SED ) and diplomat . He was the deputy minister for foreign trade of the GDR and the first head of the trade agency of the GDR in Cairo .
Life
Enkelmann learned the trade of locksmith and worked in the VEB large lathe construction "8. May “ in Chemnitz . In 1949, Enkelmann was the first to be awarded the title “Activist of the two-year plan”. He joined the SED and was director of DIA Maschinenexport until 1953 . From February 1954 to 1958, Enkelmann was a commercial councilor and head of the GDR's commercial agency in Egypt . From October 1958 to 1974 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade and for Foreign Trade of the GDR and was responsible for trade with the Soviet Union . In 1974 he became head of the GDR trade agency in Moscow (successor to Erwin Kerber ).
Enkelmann was a member of the Presidium of the German-Arab Society and from 1978 a member of the Central Committee of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship .
Awards
- Title "Activist of the Two-Year Plan" (1949)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1958) and Gold (1980)
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1959)
- Order Banner of Labor (1968)
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 79.
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 63.
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 , p. 61.
- 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. 163.
- Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbook of Diplomacy 1815–1963. Foreign heads of mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11431-1 , p. 169.
- 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. 248.
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of January 24, 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grandson, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade and for Foreign Trade of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 2004 |