List of the Dutch ambassadors in the GDR

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Appointed / Accredited Surname Remarks appointed by accredited at Leave post
Sep 24 1973 Kaspar Willem Reinink

“Although Prussia has been abolished as a state unit, it has remained as a state of mind. In the GDR, Prussia lives on as "the classic land of schools and barracks". The authorities are overwhelming. The bureaucracy is tightly organized and strictly regulates itself. The terms "sovereign state" and "subordinate spirit" impose themselves involuntarily ... The military apparatus is characterized by discipline. The soldier marches and parades to marching music and "bell chimes" and reminds the viewer of the lines that the garrison administrative superintendent Neumann wrote down with pathos around 1834: "Greetings from Prussia, men without wavering, you people in arms, you Spartan army"

- Report on a letter from Ambassador KW Reinink from Berlin dated July 28, 1977 to the Foreign Ministry
Joop the Uyl Erich Honecker 1977
1979 Adrianus Johannes Marie van der Maade Dries van Agt 2nd June 1982
1983 Roland Hugo van Limburg-Stirum Ruud Lubbers
1985 F. Springer 1989
1989 Egbert Frederik Jacobs 1992–1993: Ambassador to Helsinki, also accredited to Tallinn , 1996 representative to the OECD , March 14, 2001–2002: Ambassador to Tokyo . 2006–2008 ambassador to Rome. Oct 3, 1990

  • Building of the Prussian Ministry of Justice Wilhelmstrasse 65, a place in the hinterland of the Berlin Wall , could be located as Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse south of Clara-Zetkin-Strasse from 1964 to 1993.

  • Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse 5 / II

  • In addition to the Dutch, the Syrian, Afghan, Greek, Pakistani and Portuguese governments as well as the Commercial Coordination were represented here. June 1938 Photographer: Dorneth

In January 1973 there was mutual diplomatic recognition of the Netherlands and the GDR . In 1982 a citizen of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) sought asylum in the royal Dutch embassy, ​​he was annoyed and expelled from the embassy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nl Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Code9, Inf. No. 177, according to Jan CPM Vis: The Netherlands and Germany: Knowing and understanding one another . P. 392
  2. ^ GDR observer Kaspar Reinink: sober negotiator with historical understanding .
  3. ↑ The new Dutch ambassador to East Berlin, EF Jacobs, recorded increasing moral courage. The GDR is slipping away: 1987, 1988 and 1989
  4. ↑ Inventory van het archief van de Nederlandse Ambassade in de, Duitse Democratische Republiek (PDF; 393 kB)
  5. ^ GDR: Smooth passage . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1984 ( online ).