Siegfried Kämpf

Siegfried Kämpf (born December 9, 1929 in Lugau , Saxony ; † January 12, 2005 ) was a diplomat of the GDR who was ambassador several times, among other things .

Life

Siegfried Kämpf, son of a factory worker, attended elementary school and, between 1944 and 1945, the teacher training institute (LBA) in Frankenberg . After temporarily working as a farm laborer after the end of the Second World War in 1945, he attended the Chemnitz High School from 1946 to 1948 . After graduating from high school there, between 1948 and 1952 he studied history , German language and literature and sports at the University of Leipzig and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg . During his studies he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1950 . After completing his studies with the qualification as a secondary school teacher, he worked between 1952 and 1960 in the newly established State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport (SKKS). There he was initially a consultant and main consultant and from 1954 temporarily personal consultant to the chairman of the SKKS. At the same time he completed a distance learning course in foreign policy from 1956 to 1960 at the German Academy for Political Science and Law " Walter Ulbricht " in Potsdam . After graduation, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA) as a staff member in March 1960 , where he was initially the main advisor and head of a section.

In November 1961, Kämpf moved to the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade and between 1962 and until his replacement by Anton Schäfer in 1964 was the head of the commercial agency in Morocco . In 1964 he replaced Helmut Gürke as consul general and head of the commercial agency in Guinea and remained there until 1966, after which Helmut Gürke took over this post again. He himself returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and between 1966 and 1970 took over the post of Head of the Arab States Department as the successor to Martin Bierbach . In 1970 he took over from Bruno Sedlaczek , who had previously been head of the trade representation as legation councilor , and became the first GDR ambassador to Algeria on May 20, 1970 after formal diplomatic relations had been established . He stayed there until 1974 and was subsequently replaced by Karl-Heinz Vesper , whereupon he was Deputy Head of the Western Europe Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1974 and 1977. In 1977 he took over the office of Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO in Paris from Dieter Heinze and held this position until 1981, before Ferdinand Thun succeeded him there in 1982 .

Siegfried Kämpf last succeeded Frank Bochow as ambassador to Portugal in 1982 . He remained in this position until 1985, after which Julian Hollender was his successor there in 1986.