Lothar Nestler

Lothar Nestler (born April 2, 1932 - † January 8, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to Bangladesh and the Netherlands .

Life

After attending school, Nestler completed an apprenticeship as a brush maker from 1946 to 1949 . From 1950 to 1953 he attended the workers and farmers faculty in Leipzig and from 1953 to 1956 studied international law and foreign policy at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg . He became a member of the SED and joined the GDR diplomatic service in 1956. Until 1959 he worked as a consultant in the Finland sector of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA). From 1959 to 1962 he was an attaché at the GDR embassy in the USSR . He then worked in 1963/64 as the main consultant in the Soviet Union department and from 1964 to 1971 as a sector manager or head of the parliamentary and municipal foreign relations department of the MfAA. With the rank of embassy counselor, he acted from 1971 to 1973 as deputy head of the commercial agency and embassy of the GDR in Helsinki . In December 1973 he was briefly head of the MfAA's Northern Europe department.

After studying at the diplomatic academy in Moscow from 1974 to 1976, he worked from 1976 to 1980 as counselor and deputy head of the embassy in Sweden . He went back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was sector manager in the Northern Europe department from 1980 to 1983. On July 19, 1983, he took up his post as ambassador in Dhaka by handing over the credentials to the President of the Republic of Bangladesh, AFM Ahsanuddin Chowdhury . He held this office until May 1987. From 1987 to 1990 he was a research assistant in the MfAA's Northern Europe department. His last position in the diplomatic service of the GDR was that of ambassador to the Netherlands in 1990.

Nestler died at the age of 82.

literature

• Seppo Hentilä: Neutral between the two German states. Finland and Germany in the Cold War . Berlin science publisher. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8305-1083-3 , passim.
• 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. 337.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 19, 1973, p. 2.
2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung , January 24, 2015, p. 11.