Peter Steglich

Peter Steglich (born February 24, 1936 in Dresden ) is a former German diplomat . He was the ambassador of the German Democratic Republic in Sweden .

Life

Steglich, whose father became a people's policeman after the war, attended elementary school from 1942 to 1950 and high school from 1950 to 1954. Both in Dresden. He then studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1955 . This was followed by studies at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations from 1955 to 1961, where he graduated as a graduate scientist.

In 1961 he started working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR. He became a consultant in the Northern Europe department. In the same year he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve by the Minister for National Defense Heinz Hoffmann . Due to his outstanding position and his indispensability in the diplomatic service, he was never drafted into the reservist service. From 1968 to 1971 Peter Steglich was deputy head of the GDR trade agency in Finland with the rank of embassy counselor and from 1971 to 1972 head of the GDR trade agency in Sweden with the rank of envoy. Walter Ulbricht appointed him ambassador in 1972. As such, he worked in Sweden from February 1973 to May 1974.

At the CSCE summit in Helsinki in 1975 he acted as secretary of the GDR delegation led by Erich Honecker . At the time he was head of the Northern Europe department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (1974–1977). He was involved in the preparation of the CSCE Summit and its successful conclusion. From 1977 to 1990 he was deputy head of the main department for policy issues and planning in the ministry. He headed the GDR delegations at the CSCE follow-up meetings in Madrid (1980–1983) and in Vienna (1986–1989) as well as at their CSCE conferences in Bonn, Hamburg and Paris. Peter Steglich put his professional life at the service of international understanding and peaceful coexistence in Europe.

On January 15, 1990, Hans Modrow appeared for the first time at the Central Round Table . His proposal to appoint Peter Steglich from the SED-PDS as government representative of the commission for the dissolution of the Office for National Security led to contradictions from several participants. Rainer Eppelmann pointed out that there had been an internal amalgamation between the MfS and the SED in the past . Finally, Michael Koplanski's proposal met with broad approval to set up a tripartite committee with representatives from the Church, the government and the opposition that would create trust among the population.

Awards

• 1973 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and later in silver
• Order Banner of Labor Stage 1
• Fighting demands "For services to the people and fatherland"
• Order of the Lion of Finland

Publications

• CSCE - Fossil or Hope (together with Günter Leuschner and with a foreword by Egon Bahr ), edition ost, 1996.
• Security and Cooperation in Europe , Verl. Am Park, Berlin 2014.

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. 309.
• 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. 356.

Web links

• Eulenspiegel publishing group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Premier Modrow at the round table after all . In: Neues Deutschland , January 16, 1990, p. 3.