Manfred Thiede
Manfred Thiede (born July 8, 1936 in Chemnitz ) is a former German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to various African countries.
Life
Thiede attended the workers and farmers faculty and learned the trade of telecommunications worker after graduating from high school . He became a member of the SED and studied at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg . He completed his studies in 1960 as a state scientist and entered the diplomatic service of the GDR.
He was initially an attaché or third secretary at the GDR embassy in Bucharest . From 1968 to 1971 he was first secretary and cultural attaché at the embassy in Warsaw and from 1971 to 1976 he was head of the department for foreign cultural relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA). In 1976/1977 he studied at the SED party college "Karl Marx" . From 1977 to 1980 he was ambassador to Mali and - from Bamako - additionally from 1977 and 1978 to 1980 ambassador to Niger , Mauritania and Upper Volta . From 1980 to 1982 he was ambassador in the Guinean capital Conakry , and from March 1981 to 1982 also in Sierra Leone . From 1982 to 1983 Thiede was deputy head of the North and West Africa department at the MfAA. From 1983 to 1988 he was the GDR's ambassador in Algiers . From 1988 to 1990 he was again Head of Department for Cultural Foreign Relations at the MfAA.
In October 1986 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
Fonts
- A quarter of a century of cultural exchange with the People's Republic of Poland . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik 7 (1975), pp. 979–987.
- The cultural and scientific foreign relations of the GDR to the socialist countries . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik 10 (1976), pp. 1473–1486.
literature
- 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. 924.
- 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. 358.
Individual evidence
- ↑ High awards given . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1986, p. 4.
Johannes Schöche (1973–1975) | Alfred Peukert (1975–1977) | Manfred Thiede (1977–1980) | Erich Meske (1980–1985) | Karl-Heinz Witzke (1985–1989) | Helmut Plettner (1989–1990)
Manfred Thiede (1978–1980) | Erich Meske (1980–1985) | Karl-Heinz Witzke (1985-1989)
Günther Fritsch (1970–1974) | Eleonora Schmid (1974–1978) | Gerhard Haida (1978–1980) | Manfred Thiede (1980–1982) | Helmut Plettner (1982–1985) | Wolfgang Kubisch (1986–1990)
Siegfried Kämpf (1970–1974) | Karl-Heinz Vesper (1974–1979) | Edgar Röder (1979–1983) | Manfred Thiede (1983–1988) | Gerhard Haida (1988–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiede, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |