Wolfgang Kiesewetter
Wolfgang Kiesewetter (born December 2, 1924 in Scheibe-Alsbach ; † May 9, 1991 ) was a German diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to the United Arab Republic , Sweden , Italy and Malta .
Life
Kiesewetter, son of an employee, passed the Abitur and was drafted into the Wehrmacht . As a lieutenant in the naval artillery, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944 . There he attended an Antifa school and was employed as a teacher at the Antifa school in the village of Talizy.
After returning from captivity in 1949, Kiesewetter joined the SED . From 1950 he became an employee of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA). Initially consultant and since 1952 chief editor in the press and information department, he was head of the press department from 1954 to 1956 and then until 1957 head of main department IV (press and information). From 1957 to 1959 he was Head of Department II ( Asia , Africa , America ). During this time he made his first contacts in the Middle East , in particular with Zanzibar and Egypt . From 1959 to 1961 he was General Director of the (MfAA).
In 1961 Kiesewetter was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and from 1961 to 1963 he was the representative of the government of the GDR for the Arab states, based in Cairo . From 1963 to 1971 he was Deputy Foreign Minister of the GDR. In 1964 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. 1971/1972 he attended the party college. From 1972 to 1974 Kiesewetter was deputy editor-in-chief of the foreign policy magazine horizont , then from 1974 to 1982 ambassador in Stockholm and from 1985 to 1990 ambassador in Rome and second accredited in Malta .
In the course of his career, Kiesewetter received a number of medals and state awards from the GDR, including the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1965) and in Gold (1985) and the Honor Bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1989).
Works (selection)
- For the tenth anniversary of the revolution in Egypt . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , Heft 7 (1962), pp. 753–764.
- Profound changes in the Arab world . In: German Foreign Policy , Issue 12 (1965), pp. 1450–1465.
- Relations between the GDR and the Indian Union . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , Heft 8 (1967), pp. 940–944.
- Development aid as an instrument of West German expansion policy . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , Heft 7 (1968), pp. 802–810.
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. 151.
- 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. 389.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Kiesewetter, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 320f.
Web links
- Wolfgang Kiesewetter in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1989, p. 4.
Peter Steglich (1973–1974) | Wolfgang Kiesewetter (1974–1982) | Manfred Schmidt (1982–1988) | Erich Wetzl (1988–1990)
Klaus Gysi (1973–1978) | Hans Voss (1978–1985) | Wolfgang Kiesewetter (1985–1990) | Alfred Marter (1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiesewetter, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR in the VAR, Sweden, Italy and Malta |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Disk Alsbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1991 |