Roland Lindner (diplomat)

Roland Lindner (born June 6, 1937 in Chemnitz ) is a former German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to Pakistan .

Life

Lindner, a trained lathe operator, studied foreign policy at the German Academy for Political Science and Law from 1956 . He completed his studies with a degree in political science.

In 1963 he became an employee of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1963 to 1967 he was a consultant in the second non-European department ( Southeast Asia ) at the MfAA. From 1967 to 1970 he worked as a cultural attaché at the GDR trade agency in India , from 1970 to 1972 as head of the consulate in Bombay . He then held various functions in the South and Southeast Asia department at the MfAA until 1977, including as deputy head of department. From June 1977 to April 1980 he was ambassador to Pakistan. He then worked from 1980 to 1990 as head of the South and Southeast Asia department at the MfAA. After 1990 Lindner worked as a wholesaler.

Lindner was a member of the SED .

Fonts

• The GDR's bilateral relations with India . Lecture to the history group in the VIP on November 8, 1998.
• (with Wolfgang Bayerlacher and Hermann Schwiesau): The GDR in the region of South and Southeast Asia . In: Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau (ed.): Foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Diplomats in conversation . LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, pp. 282-306.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1979) and in silver (1985)

literature

• 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. 482 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau (eds.): Foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Diplomats in conversation . LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-825-87539-3 , p. 345.
• Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau (eds.): The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 330 ( limited preview in the Google book search).