Siegfried Zachmann
Siegfried Zachmann (born April 13, 1928 in Dresden ) is a former diplomat of the GDR who, among other things, was ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York between 1988 and 1990 .
Life
Siegfried Zachmann, son of a railway employee, worked as an assistant for the Deutsche Reichsbahn after attending elementary school and vocational school . At the end of the Second World War he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in 1945 and then for military service in the Wehrmacht . After the end of the war, in 1945 he became an employee and finally a dispatcher at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1949 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). After he was a youth instructor and clerk at the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden between 1950 and 1951 , he began studying at the German Academy for Political Science and Law " Walter Ulbricht " (DASR) in Potsdam , which he graduated in 1953 with a degree in political science.
Zachmann then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA) as an employee in 1953 , where he was a consultant, senior consultant and main consultant in the International Organizations department. Between 1959 and 1963 he was Deputy Head of the European Economic Commission of the United Nations in Geneva and from 1963 to 1964 he was a Research Associate at the MfAA. After studying at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (SMIMO) from 1964 to 1966 , he was a research assistant in the office of Foreign Minister Otto Winzer from 1966 to 1968 . In 1968 his promotion to the doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) At the DASR.
As the successor to Harald Rose , Siegfried Zachmann took over the post of envoy and head of the observer mission at the United Nations office in Geneva in March 1968 . After the GDR became a member of the United Nations on December 13, 1972, he was ambassador and permanent representative at the United Nations Office in Geneva until he was replaced by Gerhard Kegel in 1973 . From 1973 to 1977 he was Head of the International Economic Organizations Department of the MfAA and Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City from 1977 to 1983 , before he was Head of the United Nations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1983 and 1988 Foreign affairs was. Most recently in 1988 he replaced Harry Ott as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and remained in this position until 1990. In 1990 he became a member of the Association for International Politics and International Law.
publication
- Relations between the GDR and international organizations , Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, Berlin 1956
Background literature
- Siegfried Bock (editor): GDR foreign policy in the rearview mirror. Part 2: Alternative German Foreign Policy? , Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9278-4
Web links
- Andreas Herbst : Zachmann, Siegfried . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ GERMANY POLITICS: Friends duped . In: Spiegel Online from April 27, 1970
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zachmann, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |