Ronald Boettcher
Ronald Böttcher (* 1928 in Magdeburg ; † June 20, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German politician and diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador in Libya .
Life
Böttcher, son of a working class family, learned the mason trade . From 1949 to 1960 he was active in various district and district leaderships of the SED and, among other things, worked in the agitation and propaganda department in the SED district leadership in Gera in 1953 . Böttcher studied at the party college "Karl Marx" until 1960 .
From 1961 Böttcher worked as an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). From 1962 to 1965 he worked as third secretary and press attaché at the Consulate General of the GDR in Iraq . 1966/67 he was sector manager in the third non-European department (Arab countries) in the MfAA. From 1968 to 1971 he worked as a representative of the government of the GDR and head of the commercial agency in Libya. In 1972/73 he completed a special course in the teaching and research area of Arab States at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .
On December 16, 1973 he was received by the chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of the Libyan Arab Republic, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi , to receive the credentials and, with effect from June 11, 1973, he was accredited as the first ambassador of the GDR to Libya. In April 1975 Böttcher accompanied the Libyan Prime Minister, Major Abd as-Salam Jallud , on his state visit to the GDR.
In the same year Böttcher was dismissed as ambassador and was then head of the International Relations Department of the URANIA Presidium .
Awards
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1959)
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. 77.
- 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.
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , November 8, 1964.
- ↑ Horizon No. 13/1974
- ^ Documents on the foreign policy of the German Democratic Republic 1973 . Volume XXI, 1st half volume. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1976, p. 616.
- ^ New Germany , April 23, 1975.
- ^ Neue Zeit , March 28, 1983, p. 2.
Ronald Böttcher (1973–1975) | Freimut Seidel (1975–1981) | Wolfgang Bator (1981–1986) | Heinz Knobbe (1986–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boettcher, Ronald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th June 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |