Lothar Zöllner

Lothar Zöllner (* 1931 in Dresden ) is a former German diplomat . From 1987 to 1990 he was the GDR's ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic (MVR).

Life

Zöllner, the son of a master plumber and a housewife, had four siblings. He attended elementary school until 1945 , then a technical school. As a trained butcher , he began studying foreign policy at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam , which he graduated in 1963 with a degree in political science .

Zöllner joined the diplomatic service of the GDR and worked in 1963/64 as a senior clerk in the Mongolia sector of the Far East Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1964 to 1967 he worked at the GDR embassy in Ulan Bator as a political assistant, first with the rank of attaché and later as third secretary. From 1967 to 1970 he worked in the 1st non-European department (Far East) in the MfAA and from 1970 to 1974 again at the embassy in the MVR, this time as 1st secretary. From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow . He then worked until 1979 as counselor and chargé d'affaires for the GDR in Mongolia. After working as a sector manager in the Soviet Union department of the MfAA from 1980 to 1984, he served as counselor and chargé d'affaires at the GDR embassy in Vietnam until 1986 . From January 1987 to September 1990 he worked as an ambassador in the MVR. He returned to Berlin in October 1990 one day before the day of German Unity .

Zöllner was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He lives as an ambassador a. D. in Berlin and has been chairman of the Mongolian Forum of the Asia-Pacific Forum Berlin (APFB) since it was founded in September 2000.

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. 371.
• Birgit Malchow (Ed.): The last one turns off the light. How GDR diplomats experienced 1990 abroad. Edition Ost, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932180-79-8 , p. 251.
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 369.

Web links

• Mongoleiforum at www.mongolei.de (accessed on November 13, 2017).
• Mongolia Business Day Berlin 2011 at www.germanglobaltrade.de (accessed on November 13, 2017).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ News from Mongolia at www.mongolei.de (accessed on November 13, 2017).