Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov

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Third from left: WS Semyonov, 1949

Vladimir Semyonov [sem'jɔnɔf] ( Russian Владимир Семёнович Семёнов ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Semenov Semenovic * 16th February 1911 in Krasnoslobodskoje (now Inokowka) in Kirsanov , Tambov Governorate , Russia ; † 18th December 1992 in Cologne ) was a Soviet politician , diplomat and art collector . He worked in Germany for many years.

Life

Semyonov was the son of a train driver. Since 1926 he was an accountant and employee in the district committee of the Komsomol in Kaschira in Moscow Oblast . From 1931 to 1937 he studied languages ​​and literature at the Moscow Chernishevsky Institute and from 1937 to 1939 he was a teacher of Marxism-Leninism in Rostov-on-Don . In 1938 Semyonov became a member of the CPSU (B) .

Diplomatic service from 1939 to 1954

In 1939 he took up his first positions as counselor of the USSR in Lithuania and from 1940 as counselor in Berlin. From 1942 to 1945 he moved to the embassy of the USSR in Stockholm as a delegation counselor. Its task was to obtain information about the situation and development in Germany and to find out possibilities for a separate peace. In 1944 and 1945 Semjonow was commissioned with post-war planning for Germany.

After the end of the war, he returned to Berlin in 1945 as deputy political advisor to the head of the Soviet military administration, Georgi Zhukov . From 1946 to 1953 he was political advisor to the Soviet military administration under Vasily Sokolowski and Vasily Tschuikow and an expert on agriculture. In 1948 Semyonov played a crucial role in the Soviet attempt to control West Berlin, which ultimately led to the Berlin blockade . In 1949 he took part in the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, where peace treaties with Germany and Austria were negotiated. In June 1953, after the dissolution of the Soviet Control Commission , he became High Commissioner of the Soviet Union in Germany . In September of the same year he was appointed Soviet ambassador to the GDR in East Berlin .

Political service 1954 to 1978

From 1954 to 1955 Semjonow was head of the III. European Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and Deputy Foreign Minister from 1955 to 1978. In 1955 he took part in the Four Power Conference in Geneva, in 1958 in the signing of the trade and consular agreement with Bonn, in 1962 in the Geneva Disarmament Conference and in 1969 in the negotiations for strategic disarmament in Helsinki. Since 1966 he was a candidate of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU. From 1969 to 1978 he headed the Soviet delegation to the SALT-I negotiations (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) with the USA in Helsinki, Vienna and Geneva.

Diplomatic service from 1978 to 1986

In 1978 Semyonov was appointed Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn as the successor to Valentin Falin . In 1986 he retired, and was succeeded by Juli Kwizinski . In 1980 the Museum Ludwig in Cologne showed the diplomat's extensive collection of Russian paintings and graphics.

Semjonow spent his twilight years in Cologne, where he died of pneumonia at the age of 81. The obituaries paid tribute to him as the architect of Soviet policy on Germany.

Semyonov Art Collection

The collection includes around 40 works of Russian art, most of which were created around 1919. Among them is an ink drawing by Wassily Kandinsky , fourteen lithographs by Natalia Goncharova from the 1914 cycle Der Krieg, a “ Suprematist composition” by Iwan Kljun , and works by Robert Rafailowitsch Falk . Semjonow worked as a consultant and mediator for the art patron Peter Ludwig .

Exhibitions

  • Russian art from the Semyonov collection. Museum Ludwig Cologne, March 28 to May 26, 1980
    • Evelyn Weiss , Gerhard Kolberg, Bernd Vogelsang: Russian art from the Semjonow collection. Museums of the City of Cologne, 1980
  • Russian Art of the 20th Century - Semyonov Collection. Gallery of the City of Esslingen am Neckar, June 9 to July 15, 1984; Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum Mainz, August 15 to September 16, 1984
    • Michael Maegraith, Alexander Tolnay (ed.): Russian art of the 20th century. Semyonov Collection. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-76171-3
  • Russian avant-garde 1910–1930, Ludwig Collection, Cologne. Kunsthalle Cologne, April 16 to May 11, 1986
    • Herbert Gerten (ed.), Evelyn Weiss (edit.): Russian Avantgarde 1910–1930, Ludwig Collection, Cologne. Prestel, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7913-0766-5

Publications

  • Vladimir S. Semjonow: From Stalin to Gorbachev. Half a century on a diplomatic mission. 1939-1991. Nicolai, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-87584-521-1

literature

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Fleischhauer: The chance of a separate peace. German-Soviet secret talks 1941–1945. Siedler, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88680-247-7 , p. 93
  2. ↑ Germany Archive. Journal for the United Germany . No. 5/2005, p. 814
  3. ↑ Reinhard Hübsch (ed.): “Hear the signals!” The German policy of the KPD / SED and SPD 1945–1970. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-05-003648-9 , p. 89
  4. ↑ Hellmut G. Haasis: Traces of the vanquished. Volume 3: Freedom movements from the democratic underground after 1848 to the opponents of nuclear power. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-16282-2 , p. 1032
  5. ^ Art calendar - Cologne: "Russian art from the Semjonow collection" . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/1980
  6. ↑ Vladimir Semyonov . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1992 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Semjonow, Vladimir Semjonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Семёнов, Владимир Семёнович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister (1955–1978)
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Krasnoslobodskoye
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1992
Place of death Cologne