Ludwig Zempelburg

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Ludwig ("Lutz") Zempelburg (born March 11, 1918 in Berlin ; † August 25, 2003 there ) was a German journalist and diplomat . He was Consul General of the GDR in Ceylon .

Life

Zempelburg, the son of a school principal, who died in 1918, learned to be a car mechanic. In 1938 he emigrated to Sweden . Zempelburg was initially close to SAP . In 1943 he became an informal member of the KPD , since Zempelburg's obvious membership in the KPD would have meant "under the special circumstances in Sweden a heavy burden [of] unity work with the SPD". Zempelburg was therefore to wait until his return to join the KPD. Zempelburg was a member of the working committee of the Free German Cultural Association (FDKB) in Sweden and, as a non-party member, was elected chairman of the newly founded Free German Youth in Sweden in December 1944 in Stockholm .

In May 1946 Zempelburg returned to Germany, to the Soviet occupation zone , and became a member of the SED . In June 1946 he took part in the first parliament of the FDJ in Brandenburg (Havel) . He worked on the Berlin-Friedrichshain youth committee and was actively involved in the construction of youth homes. From 1947 to 1949 he studied foreign policy and economics in Leipzig . He was then deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Wirtschaft as well as a member of the board of the central organ of the SED, Neues Deutschland (ND). There he was responsible for economy and agriculture. From 1957 to 1960 he was the ND's foreign correspondent in Beijing .

Since 1961 Zempelburg was an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1961 to 1963 he headed the economic policy department at the MfAA. From February 1964 to February 1968 he was the GDR's first consul general in Colombo .

After 1968 Zempelburg was again active as a journalist and worked for the foreign policy magazine horizont .

In June 1982 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver as a veteran in Berlin .

literature

  • Helmut Müssener: Exile in Sweden. Political and cultural emigration after 1993 . C. Hanser, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11850-0 , pp. 160, 201 and 437.
  • 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. 329.
  • Jan Peters : Sweden, a country of exile. German and Swedish anti-fascists 1933–1945 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 171f.
  • Sigrid Fritzlar: Zempelburg, Ludwig . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 1042.
  • Michael F. Scholz : Would you like some Scandinavian experience? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07651-4 , p. 382 and passim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary . In: Neues Deutschland from September 13, 2003, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Our sheet , issue 27 (Jan. – Mar. 2004) (PDF; 254 kB), p. 11.
  3. ↑ Scholz (2000), p. 32.
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 29, 1982, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Zempelburg, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zempelburg, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and diplomat (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2003
Place of death Berlin