Norbert Jaeschke

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Norbert Jaeschke (born January 18, 1927 in Opole ; † January 18, 2018 in Königs Wusterhausen ) was a German diplomat . He was Ambassador of the GDR in Turkey and Denmark .

Life

Jaeschke, son of a railroad worker, attended high school and became a member of the NSDAP on April 20, 1944 . He passed the Abitur in 1948 and then studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , graduating with a degree in law.

From 1952 he was a member of the diplomatic service of the GDR and initially an employee of the legal department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1958 to 1961 he worked as deputy head of the commercial agency and as consul general in Burma , from 1961 to 1964 as acting head of the Middle East department at the MfAA. From 1964 to 1968 he was Consul General in Iraq and between 1968 and 1974 held managerial positions in the MfAA again. From October 1974 to May 1979 he was ambassador of the GDR in Ankara , from November 1983 to February 1989 ambassador in Copenhagen and from April 1989 to August 1990 again ambassador in Ankara.

Jaeschke was a member of the SED and after the fall of the Wall in the GDR, a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity eV Jaeschke died on his 91st birthday.

Awards

literature

  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 243.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 139.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 357 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau (Eds.): Alternative German Foreign Policy? GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror (II) . LIT Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 256.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell visit by the GDR ambassador to Prime Minister Poul Schlueter . In: Neues Deutschland , February 2, 1989, p. 5.
  2. ^ Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the GDR of August 23, 1990. BArch DC 20-I / 3/3054.
  3. ↑ akzente GBM congratulates . In: akzente , 198th edition from January 2016, p. 7.
  4. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of January 27, 2018, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Jaeschke, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR in Denmark and Turkey
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2018
Place of death King Wusterhausen