Walter Schmidt (diplomat)

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Walter Schmidt (born October 13, 1929 in Dresden ) is a former German diplomat . He was ambassador of the GDR in Nepal and in the Yemeni Arab Republic (Northern Yemen).

Life

Schmidt began an apprenticeship as an aircraft fitter in 1944 and learned the trade of bricklayer from 1945 to 1948 . He initially worked in the profession and joined the SED and the FDGB . From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the local board and youth secretary of the construction union in Dresden and from 1949 a member of the central board of IG Bau / Holz in East Berlin . He graduated from a workers 'and farmers' faculty (ABF) in 1954 and studied economics in East Berlin from 1954 to 1955. From 1955 to 1960 he studied at the University and the College of Foreign Trade in Beijing . He then worked from 1960 to 1966 in the Foreign Policy and International Relations Department at the SED Central Committee . In 1966 he joined the diplomatic service of the GDR and from 1966 to 1968 was chargé d'affaires at the GDR embassy in the People's Republic of China . Afterwards he was again an employee in the Central Committee of the SED and head of the Bangladesh section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). As such, he was involved in the official talks between the GDR and Bangladesh in November 1972, led by Foreign Ministers Otto Winzer and Abdus Samad Azad, to further develop relations between the two countries. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two states on November 15, 1972, the GDR embassy in Islamabad began its work in January 1973 and Schmidt was appointed counselor and chargé d'affaires. From 1976 to 1980 he headed the South and Southeast Asia department at the MfAA. From December 1980 to April 1986 he was the GDR's ambassador in Kathmandu , and then from September 1987 to 1990 in Sanaa .

Awards

literature

  • Werner Meißner (Ed.): The GDR and China 1945-1990. Politics - economy - culture. A collection of sources . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002806-8 , p. 119.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maaßen - Zylla. Addendum to volume 1. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 791.
  • Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau (eds.): GDR foreign policy. An overview. Volume 3: data, facts, people (= political science. Volume 173). LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 349.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversations have started . In: Neue Zeit , November 7, 1972, p. 2.
  2. ^ GDR embassy in Islamabad began its work . In: Neues Deutschland , January 27, 1973, p. 2.
  3. ^ Neue Zeit , December 20, 1980, p. 2 and Neues Deutschland , April 7, 1986, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , September 11, 1987, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden