Peter Hintzmann

Peter Hintzmann (born February 3, 1936 in Rostock ; † 1998 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR ambassador to Norway and Iceland .

Life

Hintzmann, the son of an employee, attended secondary school and graduated from high school . From 1956 to 1960 he studied at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg . He completed his studies with a degree in economics.

He then entered the diplomatic service of the GDR. From 1960 to 1963 he was country worker for Denmark or sector manager in the Fourth European Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). In 1964 he was briefly an attaché at the embassy in Warsaw and then assistant to the head of the representation of the Chamber of Foreign Trade (KfA) in Copenhagen . From 1966 to 1969 he was deputy head of the KfA representation. Between 1969 and 1971 Hintzmann studied at the diplomatic college in Moscow . 1972/1973 he worked as head of the commercial agency (counselor) and from 1973 to 1977 as ambassador in Oslo , from 1973 to 1977 he was also second accredited as ambassador in Iceland. From 1977 to 1982 he headed the Northern Europe / Great Britain department at the MfAA. He then acted from 1982 to 1989 as first secretary of the SED district leadership of the MfAA (successor to Gerd König ). In 1990 he was again an employee in the Northern Europe department of the MfAA. The decision of the Modrow government of March 2, 1990 to appoint Hintzmann as ambassador to Finland was repealed on May 23, 1990 by the de Maizière government . He was unemployed after 1990.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1977) and in silver (1986)

literature

• 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. 126.
• 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. 321.
• 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. 314.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 8th meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 23, 1990. - Federal Archives DC 20-I / 3/2956.