Werner Herklotz

Werner Herklotz (born May 25, 1931 in Clausnitz ) is a former German politician ( SED ) and diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador in Somalia .

Life

Herklotz attended the state administration school in Saxony and the district party school. He later completed a correspondence course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law , which he graduated with a degree in political science. Until 1957, Herklotz was a councilor in Freiberg . He was then mayor of this city until March 1963. Between 1963 and 1969 he was secretary of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district council.

In 1969 he was posted to the GDR commercial agency in Zambia as an employee . From May 18, 1970 to June 1974, he represented the GDR as ambassador in Mogadishu . Then he was employed as a sector manager in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR and in 1976 switched to the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the SED as a political employee.

Awards

• Labor Banner (1976)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1979)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR

Fonts (selection)

• The People's Republic of Angola in the anti-imperialist struggle . In: Einheit , Heft 4 (1976), pp. 490-494 (together with Siegfried Büttner).
• On the role of the armed forces in the Ethiopian revolution . In: Militärwesen , Heft 5 (1979), pp. 20-24.
• Ethiopia's working people before founding their party . In: Neuer Weg , Heft 6 (1983), p. 239ff.

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 117.
• 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. 307.
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 313.