Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemassov
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kotschemassow ( Russian Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов ; born September 18, 1918 in Gagino , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Russia ; † 1998 in Moscow ) was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador to the GDR from 1983 to 1990 .
Life
Kochemasov had been a member of the CPSU since 1942 . After the Second World War he was initially a functionary in the international work of the Komsomol youth association . From 1955 to 1960 he worked for the first time in the Soviet embassy in the GDR.
From 1966 to 1983, Kochemasov was the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic , he also held management positions in the All-Union Society for the Protection of Historical Monuments and Culture and in the Soviet Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with the Peoples of Other Countries ( SSOD ) . From 1966 to 1983 he was a candidate and from 1983 to 1990 a full member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
In 1983 he was appointed ambassador of the Soviet Union to the GDR by the head of state and party leader Yuri Andropov as the successor to Pyotr Abrassimov . From 1985 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91, Mikhail Gorbachev practiced glasnost and perestroika ; this changed the relationship between the GDR and the Soviet Union considerably.
On the evening of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, Kochemasov did nothing. During the unification process of the two German states, Kochemassow represented the interests of the Soviet Union.
In this context, on April 16, 1990, he presented the newly appointed Prime Minister of the GDR, Lothar de Maizière , with a “ non-paper ” in which the Soviet Union had summarized its principles for the unification process in eleven points. This unofficial document included a clear rejection of the unification of the two German states under Article 23 of the Basic Law and the rejection of membership in NATO for a reunified Germany.
At the beginning of June 1990, Kochemassov was dismissed from his post as ambassador and retired. His successor as the Soviet ambassador to the GDR was Gennady Shikin . Kochemassov died in Moscow in 1998; his grave is in the Troyekurovo cemetery .
Kochemasov was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , among others .
Works (selection)
- My last mission Dietz Verlag Berlin, 1994
Web links
- Short tabular biography (Russian)
- Text of the Soviet non-paper from April 1990
- Interview with Kochemasov in Der Spiegel , November 1992
- Interview with Kochemassov in Der Spiegel , September 1997
Footnotes
- ↑ he went to bed around 10 p.m. ( Der Spiegel 45/2009 )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kochemasov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кочемасов, Вячеслав Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet ambassador to the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gagino , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1998 |
| Place of death | Moscow |