Rolf Böttcher (diplomat)
Rolf Böttcher (* 1935 ) is a former German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to the Republic of Finland .
Life
Böttcher studied foreign policy from 1957 to 1959 at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg and graduated in 1959 with a degree in political science.
Since 1959 he was an employee in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). In 1959/60 Böttcher was attaché , from 1963 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1972 third, then second and finally first secretary at the GDR commercial agency in Helsinki . Between 1973 and 1975 he completed additional studies at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow . From 1975 to 1978 Böttcher served as counselor at the embassy of the GDR in Helsinki. Between 1978 and 1981 he worked as a sector manager at the MfAA. From 1981 to 1986 he was Counselor and Chargé d'affaires of the Embassy in the Republic of Iceland . From 1987 to 1990 he was the GDR's ambassador in Helsinki.
literature
- 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. 294.
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SURNAME | Böttcher, Rolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR in Finland |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |