Pyotr Andreyevich Abrassimov

Pyotr Abrasimov (1983)

Peter Abrassimov ( Russian Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов , scientific transliteration. Pëtr Andreevič Abrasimov * 16th May 1912 in Boguschewsk in Senno , Mogilev Governorate , Russian Empire , now Vitebsk Region , Belarus ; † 16th February 2009 in Moscow ) was a Soviet ambassador in of the GDR .

Abrassimow was a functionary in state and trade union organs until 1941, then in the Red Army and an officer in the central staff of the Belarusian partisan movement . In the years 1946-1952 he was first permanent representative of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR at the Council of Ministers of the USSR , then first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. At the same time he completed a history degree at the University of Minsk . From 1950 to 1958 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

Since 1956 he was in the diplomatic service: until 1957 as counselor in the People's Republic of China , until 1961 as ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland , 1962–1971 as ambassador to the GDR , until 1973 as ambassador to France and 1975–1983 again as ambassador to the GDR. He was instrumental in the four-power agreement on the status of Berlin of September 3, 1971. Due to his increasingly autocratic and patronizing appearance, the GDR state and party leader Erich Honecker in Moscow pushed through his replacement as ambassador. 1983–1985 he was chairman of the State Committee for Foreign Tourism and until 1986 Ambassador to Japan .

Abrassimow was awarded, among other things, the Order of Lenin , the Order of the Red Banner , the Order of the October Revolution and the Great Star of Friendship of the GDR. He also accepted the award of the CDU in the GDR with the Otto Nuschke plaque . Abrasimov died on February 16, 2009 in Moscow at the age of 96 and was buried in the Troyekurovo cemetery.

Works (selection)

• Das Haus unter den Linden From the history of the Russian and Soviet embassies in Berlin, Verlag Zeit im Bild Dresden (1978)
• West Berlin - yesterday and today State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic (1981)
• Three hundred meters from the Brandenburg Gate Memories of an Ambassador, Verlag Quadriga (1985)

literature

• Jan Foitzik:  Abrassimow, Pyotr Andrejewitsch . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Pyotr Andreevich Abrassimow in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neue Zeit , June 19, 1975, pp. 1/2
2. ↑ Message ( memento of the original from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossija (Russian)