THE EAST GERMAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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• Publication Date: May 4, 1955
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CENTIML raT9 LIGENC_3 AG_,'' vY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany/USSR/Poland
SUBJECT The East German Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 4 May 19 5
NO. OF PAGES 35
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
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Section Subject
East German Foreign Policy as Reflected in Press
Policy
A. The Ministry Policy Committee (Kollegium) 1
Structure and Personnel of the Ministry 2 - 21
GDR Embassies and Missions in Foreign Countries 22 31
D. SED Central committee Members Working closely
with the Ministry 32 - 36
B. GDR Newspaper Corresppndents in Other Countries 37 - 39
F. Foreign Journalists Accredited in the GDR 4+0 - 41
G. Principal Personalities of the ministry 42 -49
H. Training and Personnel
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I? Functions and Functioning of the Ministry's
Departments
J. Functions of Main Department V (Press and Infor-
mation)
K. Relations between the Ministry and Other Bodies
L. Data on the GDR Missions Abroad
Couriers add Telecommunications
N. Personal and Political Influences in the Formu-
lation of Ministry Policy
0. The Degree of Independence of East German Foreign
Policy
Paragraphs
52 --62
63 - 65
66 - 70
71 - 76
77 - 82
83 - 87
88 - 92
93 -101
Foreign Office Attitudes toward specific problems 102 -105
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First Secretary Elfriede Otto
d. Second Secretary Gisela Roloff no party
Elfriede Ribbschlaeger SED
4. Department A (Cosfnunications and Code Department)
a. Chief Erhard Schierz
b. Staff Fridolin Hilli
Rudi Hoehn
Alfred Ribbschlaeger
Ruegener (fnu)
Heinz Schinaann
5. Department B (Courier Service)
a. Chief
b. Staff
Ruider (fnu) - male
Engel (fnu) - female
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A.
MINISTRY POLICY COMMITTEE (KOLLEGIUM)
Membership
a.
Dr. Lothar Bolz
Minister of Foreign Affairs
b.
Georg Hane.
Secretary.of State for Foreign Affairs
c.
Peter Florin
Chief, Department of Foreign Policy,
SED Central Committee
d.
Fritz Grosse
Chief, Main Department I of the ministry
e.
Richard Gyptner
Chief, Main Department II
f.
Wilhelm Meissner
Chief, Main Department III
Kurt Frenzel
Chief, Main Department IV
h.
Wolfgang Kiesevetter
Chief, Main Department V
i.
Martin Bierbach
First BPO Secretary
B. STRUCTURE AND PERSONNEL OF THE MINISTRY
2. Office of the Minister
a. Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Deputy Minister President Dr. Lothar Bolz
b. Personal Referent Ewald Moldt
c. First Secretary Frau Gertrud Neidhardt
d. Second Secretary Ursula Zviers
3? Office of the State Secretary
State Secretary Georg Handke.
b. Personal Referent Joachim Naumann
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Main Department I (USSR and People?so Democracies)
a.
Chief
b.
Deputy Chief
Dew t i Soviet Union)
(1)
Chief
(2)
Political Affairs:
Hauptreferentin
(3)
Econcic Affairs:
Hauptreferent
(4)
Cultural Affairs:
Referentin
(5)
Referat for Mongolia
Fritz Grosse
Aenne Kundermann
Aenne Kundermann
Erna Haehnel
Horst Schadov
Sonja Moldt
Bits Trampler
d. Depertment.2 (Asiatic Peonle?s ocracies)
(1) Chief
(2) Referat for China:
Hauptreferentin
(a) Economic Affairs:
Oberreferent
(b) Cultu wl Affairs:
Referent
Referat for Vietnam (sic):
Referentin
(4) Referat for Korea: Referent
(i) Chief
(2) Referat for Hungary:
Rudolf Roameisl
Vera Richter
Willi Dahms
Erich Richter
use Engelhard
Wolfgang Konschil
e. Department 3 (Southeast Euro
Dean Peop3-0 9, Democracies)
(3)
?berreferent
(a) Cultural Affairs:
Oberreferentin
Referat for Rumania:
Haauptreferent
(a) Cultural Affairs:
Referentin
(4) Referat for Bulgaria:
Hauptreferent
(a) Cultural Affairs:
(5) Referat for Albania:
Hauptreferentin
,went 4 (Neighboring Peo
(i) Chief
(2) Referat for Poland:
Heuptreferent
Herbert Busse
Helmut ZvIers
Waltraud Burtchen
Kurt Streich
Herta'Rzika (or Rziha)
August Kiobes
Kaethe Mierke
Kaaethe' Blaenkle
.a Democracies)
Fritz Stude
Herbert Schlage
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SED
SED
SED
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(a) Economic Affairs:
Oberreferent
(b) Cultural Affairs:
Referentin
(3) Referat for Czecilos:tot;al.ia:
Hauptreferent
(a) Economic Affairs:
Oberreferentin
(b) Cultural Affairs:
Referent
G6rhard Abner
!;uth ::enk
Richard Peuker
Ursula Gott
Rolf Tacke
7. Main Department II (Capitalist Countries)
a. Chief Richard Gyptner SED
b. Department 1 (Capitalist Countries)
(1) Chief Kurt Kluge SED
(2) Referat for Great Britain
and France: Hauptreferent Ku? Nier SED
(3) Referat for Near East and Asia:
Hauptreferent Siegfried Buettner SID
(4) Referat for Northern Europe:
Oberreferentin Brigitte Echtermeyer SED
(5) Referat for Southern Europe:
Oberreferentin Hildegard Barth SED
(a) Oberreferentin Marianne Haemmerlein SED
(6) Referat for the USA: Referent Arthur Iloeltge SED
c. Department 2 (International Organizations]
(1) Chief Guenther Seifert BED
(2) Referat for the United Nations:
Hauptreferent Bernhard Neugebauer SED
(3) Oberreferent Siegfried Zachmann
(4) Referat for Economic Organizations:
Oberreferent Kurt Liebau
(5) Oberreferentin Frau Grete Rudolph
8. Main Department III (German and European Policy)
A. Chief Wilhelm Meissner
(1) Secretary Eva Schindler
b. Department 1 (German Policy - Deutschland OiLitik)
SED ",
SZ^(SPD)
SED
(1) Chief Werner Wenning BED
(2) Referat for SPD Affairs2 Werner Praetorius SED
(3) Other Btaff members Frau Jaktschenties (fnu) SED
Z'oIf ;arid; Kerff
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Department 2 (European Policy - Europapolitik)
BED
(1) Chief
(2) Staff members
Herbert Barth
Karl-Heinz Lugenheim
9.
Main Department IV (Consular Affairs)
Hans Voss
a.
b.
Chief
Deputy Chief
Kurt Prenzel
Heinrich Wiedemann
SED
C.
Referat for Diplomatic Passports
Kaethe Reiche
SED
(1) Staff members
Ruth Bahr
Johanna Stamm
Martin Koehler
Wolfgang Scheibke
no party
no party
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d.
Referat for Duty Travel
Hans Pflehnert
SED
e.
Referat for Private Travel
Rappel (fno)
SED
f.
(1) Staff member
Referat for Legal Matters
Ursula Ludwig
Horst Behrendt
SED
BED
g.
Other staff members
Frau Eckner (fnu)
no party
h.
Referent
Olga Friedrich
Egon Gloess
Max Holtz
Fritz Meier
Erwin Noack
Erika Obst
Gerhard Wegner
Fritz Grossmann
BED
BED
SED
SED
BED
SED
SED
SED
10. Main Administration V (Press and Information)
a. Chief Wolfgang Kieseaetter SED
b. Deputy Chief Siegfried Hoeldtke SED
c? Department 1 (Press)
(1) Chief3
(2) Auswertungslektorat
CO"
Chief, Oberreferent
Hauptreferent
HI
auptsachbearbeiter
Wolfgang Zastrow
Fritz Herrmann
Guenther Jaennicke
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(3)
(d) Secretary
Oberreferent
Charlotte Mueller
Walter Gampe
(4)
Oberreferent
Fritz Fleischer
(59 Oberreferentin
Johanna Mueller
(6)
Instructions to Press Attaches,
(7)
Referent
Information Editor, Referent
Manfred Lobeda
Hans Hackel
d.
Department 2 (Propaganda Abroad)
(1)
Irmgard Sickert
(2)
Publications of Embassies,
(3)
Hauptreferent
(a) Oberreferent
Siegfried Hoeldtke
Lothar Plehnert
Guenther Losch
(ii)
(5)
Oberreferent
Exhibits in Foreign Countries,
Bodo Rickert
(6)
Referent
Hauptsachbearbeiterin
Alfred Meyer
Dora Steinbeiss
e.
Technical Staff
(1)
Statistics
Richard Lachmann
(2)
Chief of Archives
use Jahnke
(3)
(a) Staff members
Newspaper Clippings
Erna Sidamgrotzki
Luzie Borzechowski
Elli Herzberg
Anni Koentop
Elisabeth Kuecken
(4)
Staff member
Helene Bierback
11. Department of Protocol
a. Chief
b. Deputy Chief
c. Reception of Delegations,
Oberreferentin
12. Department of Finance
a. Chief
b. Deputy Chief, Hauptreferent
} _ c Hauptreferent
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
SED
no party
no party
no party
no party
SED
Anton Nosty BED
Hanna Mueller SED
Fritz Mertsch SED
Clemens Hulin no party
-Adolf Winkler SED
d. Referat for Salary Payments (Gehaltsstelle)
(1) HauptEacuibear1eiterin
Helene Sydow no party
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f. Referat for Foreign Currency (Valutabeachaffung)
(1) Sachbearbeiter Erich Hahne SED
(2) Hauptsachbearbeiterin Erna Wilke
~. Referat for Accounting (Rechnungswesen)
(1) Sachbearbeiterin Helga Jahns FDJ
(1) Sachbearbeiter Wolfgang Werner'
Referat for Social Security Matters (SVK-
Angelegenheiten and Rurverschickung)
h. Referat for Bookkeeping (Buchhaltung)
(1) Chief (Leiterin) Elisabeth Wolter CDU
(2) Sachbearbeiterin Ruth Leuk (or Lunk) no party
i. Secretarial work Frau Pahlow (fnu) no party
Legal Department
a. Chief . Siegfried Bock SED
hi. Interpreter Translator Staff (Dolmetscher-Abteilung)
a. Chief
b. Sachbearbeiterin (Russian)
c. Sachbearbeiterin (Russian)
d. Sachbearbeiterin (Russian)
e. Hauptsachbearbeiterin (English)
15. Personnel Department (8aderabteilung)
a. Chief
b. Deputy Chief
c. Deputy Chief
d. R-,ferat for Embaasiej?Personnel
(1) Referentin
(2) Referentin
(3) Sachbearbeiterin
e. Referat for Training (Schulung)
f. Referat for Ministry Personnel
g. Other Staff Members
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Helens T He rner
Renate Brose
Elisabeth Mathes
Hrsula Zepernick
Jutta Weigent
Emil Rathmann5
Voss (fnu)
Hans Hartitz
Ingeborg Diener
Vally Schober
Heiler Neugebauer
Albin Wild
Ursula Gastmann
Thea Hoffmann
Gerdy Itubasch
Alice La?el
Emil Bartsch
no party
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Helga Reimann STD
Willi Bodenburg SED
16. Classified Documents Department
a. Chief
b. Mitarbeiter
17. Department of General Administration
Chief, Hauptreferent
b. Hauptsachbearbeiter
c. Sachbearbeiter
d. Secretarial Work
e. Chief of the Motor Pool
18. Library
a. Staff Member
19. Archives of the Foreign Ministry
a. Chief
20. Office for the Support of Diplomats
Diplomaten - BBD
a. Chief
b. Hauptreferent
c. Oberreferent
d. Oberreferentin
e. Referent
f. Oberreferent
g. Oberreferent
h. Referent
21. Party Groups in the Ministry
a. Party Organisation (BPO)
First Secretary (full-time)
Second Secretary
Secretary
b. BED Fighting Group (Kampfgruppe)
Chief (Leiter)
Technical Chief
Political Chief
Chief of Training
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Frau Charlotte Pfeifer BED
Heinrich Liersch SID
Max Pankalla
Kolbe (fnu) FDJ
Frau Jaeschke (fnu) no party
Willi Wolf BED
Franz Markwardt SED
Hermann Willnow SID
Buero zur Betreuung der
Ubald Igowski
Oskar Handke
Gottlieb Bechtle SED
Charlotte Stieler SED
Harry Kniebel
Walter Karg
Gruenheid (fhu) SED
Albert Abitz
Martin Bierbach
Wolfgang Kiesewetter SED
Waltraud Kaudelka SED
Martin Bierbach
Wolfgang Kiesewetter SED
Ewald Moldt
Siegfried Zachmann SED
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c? Other
y Organizations
(1 FDJ Chairman for the Ministry Wolfgang Konschil
(2) DSF Chairman for the Ministry Helene Berner
(3) GST Chairman for the Ministry Siegfried Zachmann7
(4) BGL Chairman for the Ministry Charlotte Born
GDR EMBASSIES AND MISSIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
22. GDR Mission to Albania
a. Minister (Gesandter)
b. Secretary (sic)
Co Head of Trade Mission
23. GDR-Mission to Bulgaria
25. GM Mission to Czechoslovakia
Brigitte Kulitzka
Ambassador
b. Press At$achtt
c. Head of Trade Mission
26. GDR Mission to Hungea
Bernhard;Koenen
Harald Uhlig
Otto Falkenberg
Erhard Scheffler
Manfred Richter
Rueger (fnu)
a. Ambassador (Botschafter)
b. Secretary
c. Press Attache
d. Head of Trade Mission
24- GDR Mission to China
Egon Dreger
Heinrich Sperker
Anni Willert
Fritz Kuss
a.
Ambassador
c.
Johannes Koenig8
Counsellor of Embassy (Botschaftsrat) Alexander Gruettner
Secretary
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
Secretary
Secretary
Press Attach?
Radio Operator (FunHer)
Interpreter
Wenner Deckers
Ursula Spenke
Dieter Kulitzka
Ernst Knoll
Guenther Spenke
a.
Ambassador
Sepp Schwab
b.
Secretary
Ingeburg (sic) Haelker
c.
Secretary
d
Vera Luetzendorf (sic)
.
Press Attache
Rolf Luetzendorf
e.
Head'of Trade Mission
Jan IColasa
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27. GSR Mission to North Korea
a. Ambassador
b. Press Attache
28.'- GDR Mission to Pc3land
Richard Fischer
Rolf Glueckauf
SED
a. Ambassador
b. Counsellor of Embassy
c. Secretary or Press Attache
Press Department,
d
Stefan Heymann
Rudolf Helmer
Forst Grunert
.
Aauptsachbearbeiterin
Brigitte Helmer
BED
e. Head of Trade Mission
Manfred Schmidt LDP
(SED Candidate,
f. Consular Department, Staff Member
29. GDR Mission to Rumania
Helga Seifert
SED
a.
Ambassador
Werner Eggerath'
SED
b.
c.
d.
e.
Counsellor of Embassy
Secretary
Secretary
Press Attache
Siegfried Rienbtch
Erich Simons
Sonja Riedel
Dieter Doering
SID
f.
Head of Trade Mission
Kurt Gutschebauch
(or Kundermann (fn t))
SED
30.
GDR Mission to Russia
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Ambassador
Counsellor of Embassy and Charge
d' Affaires
Secretary
Secretary (Cultural Affairs)
Press Attache
Head of Trade Mission
Rudolf Appelt
Gustav Seitz
Georg Speiser
Werner Boehnke
Bruno Lembke
Wilhelm Banachak
SED
31.
GDR
Trade Mission to Finaand
a. Head of Trade Mission
Bahr (fnu)
SED
D. SED CE11TRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE MINISTRY
32. Department for Press and Radio (BED Central Committee)
b. Deputy Chief
c. Staff members
Heinz Hahn
Vossier (fnu) SED
Johannes Kannegiesser SED
Georg Hansen
Willi Koehler
Hoffmann (fnu)
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d.
Editorial Staff of SID Press
Service
Horst Meyer
6.
Editorial Staff of Weekly
Service (Wochendienst)
Schaul (fnu)
f.
Editorial Staff of Einheit
Bamberger, (fnu)
Gustav Herzfeldt
33. Depetment of Foreign Policy (Aussenpolitik)
b. Staff members
Peter Florin
Paul Markowski
Dehmel (fnu)
311. Department for International Liaison
Staff members Grate KeilsOn
Schvotzer (fnu)
35. Department for Governmental Organs (Staatliche 02,00
a. Staff members
Rudolf Murgott
Gerhard Zettler
36. Department for Economic Policy (Wirtachaftspolitik)
a. Staff member Willi Armlztst
E. GDR NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
37 - China
a. Correspondent of ADN Martin Doering
b. Correspondent of Nauss Deutschland Dr. Fritz Jansen
38. Czechoslovakia
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a. Correspondent of ADN Eduard Tautz SED
b. Correspondent of Nauss Deutschland Elisabeth Borchert-Hilgert BED
39. Soviet Union
a. Correspondent of ADN Otto Schreiber BED
b. Correspondent of ADN Erika Nitschke SED
c. Correspondent of Nauss Deutschland Otto Trilitsch BED
F. FOREIGN JOURNALISTS ACCRA IN THE GDR
110. Eastern-Bloc Counties
a. China
(1) Nauss China Shen Shi Wu
b. Czechoslovakia
(1) Czechoslovak Press Bureau Jaroslav Mraka
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c. Hungary
(1) Hungarian Telegraph Bureau
d. Poland
(1) Polish Information Bureau
(2) Polish Press Agency
e. Soviet Union
(1) Izvestia
Desso Vozari
Jozef Szyrek
Ludwig Fagot
Yevgeni Pralnikov
( (a) Interpreter
Ursula Doberstein
no party
(2) Komsomoiskaya Pravda
Vladimir Berezinsky
(3) Radio Moscow
Michael Smirnov
(4) Pravda
Pavel :Naumov
(a) Correspondent
(b) Interpreter
Podklyuchnikov.
Ruth Bercht
no party
(5) TASS News Service
41. Western Countries
Ivan Levin
a.
Avanti
Fossati (fnu)
b.
Daily Worker
Phillis Rosner
c.
Democratic German.Report
John Peet
d.
L'Humanit,
Roue Michel
e.
Die oesterreichische 14lsti
Franz Kain
f .
Unit.
Sergio Segre
G. PRINCIPAL PERSONALTIES OF THE MINISTRY
42. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lothar Bolz, is a man of bourgeois origin,
belonging to the W. As long as the principle prevails that the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs is to be in the hands of bourgeois official, the per-
sonal position of Bolz is thought to be completely impregnable.- Bolz is in
very good standing with the Russians, but in the ministVlt m].f he.~is con-
sidered arrogant, and is therefore not as popular as his predecessor, Georg
Dertinger.
Although Bolz' secretary belongs to the same party as he, Ara. N dt:;
. ministfr; la9rr husband
does not so= to'be On very good terms with
is an SED member.
State Secretary, Georg Handces_. is aggressive and not popular.
43. Fritz Grosse, chief of Main Administration Is, is an idealistic type of
'told Communist".. very much abreast of his departments and a strong fol-
lower of the Communist line. His deputy, Aenne Kundermann, whose recall
from the ambassadorship in-Warsaw was considered to be disciplinary., is
very ambitious; since she cannot oust her chief, she is trying to get
the headship of Main Administration II. Kunderman seems to have a
strong mistrust of the Russians. Rudolf Rosmeisi, chief of Department
2, came to-his present position from Peking as a demotion. Herbert Busse,
chief of Department 3, formerly the personal Referent of Anton Ackerman,
is very mush disliked because of his asperity.
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44. Richard Gyptner, chief of Main Administration II, has a strong party
Position as well as good international connections. He began his career
as personal secretary to Dimitroff. He evidently knows a lot about
Waiter Ulbricht, and according to his own hints, about the role that
Ulbricht played-in the abandonment of Ernst Thaelmann, former head of
the Communist Party of Germany, in 1933. Gyptner came to the ministry
from the German section of the International Resistance Committee, after
he had served a while in the Office of Information of East Germany.
Of the two sub-department chiefs, Guenther Seifert is more capable than
Kurt Kluge. Since Siegfried Buettner, Oberreferent for Asia, is the
strongest man in the department, he will probably replace Kluge in the
near future.
45. Wilhelm Meissner, former chief of the Press Department, now chief of
Main Administration III, is outstandingly intelligent and enjoys the
favor of Otto Grotewohl, whose personai:Csecretary he had been (they
exchange birthday presents). Meissner's position has been strengthened
since he organized the GDR exhibition in Moscow in exemplarylfashtEon,
for which he was honored as am-activist. Werner Wenning, chief of
Department 1, is a careerist of only moderate attainments, whereas the
chief of Department 2, Herbert Barth, allegedly-a university man, is
very capable.
46. Prenzel and Wiedemann, chief and deputy of Main Administration IV,
are old Communists and very well liked. Since the department was ova'-
loaded with work, Kaethe Reich, who has a very good standing with the
party, was also assigned to it, to assist the two others.
47. Wolfgang Kiesevetter, chief of Main Department V (Press), although of
lower-middle-class origin, is one of the most capable and strongest
personalities in the entire ministry. He stands very well with
Grotewohl,apparently, and owing to his comprehensive knowledge of
languages, he functions actually as chief interpreter of the ministry,
and even of the government itself. For example, he is the regular
interpreter between Grotewohl and Molotov.
48.,Ex-Cbunt Ferdinand Thun, chief of protocol, (still addressed as Herr
Graf by some of his subordinates) pays little attention to-the duties
of his office, leaving the administration almost entirely to his deputy,
Anton Nasty. Nosty has technical knowledge and a bourgeois backgroua7.
He was installed in the department because it hdd the repuation of being
"reactionary". Thun makes a pretense of being democratic, but he is the
only department chief who is never seen inLthe GDR Guest House.
49. Emil Rathmann, chief of the Personnel Department, is a member of the
Central Government Committee (Zentrale Regierungs Kommission-ZRK).
Absent at present on a training mission in an advanced party school,
he will probably not return to his post. Voss (fnu), from the State
Secretariat of the Interior, has taken over some of the chief's duties
and is greatly feared by the employees. His position is being hotly
contested by the second deputy, Hans Hartitz, who has assumed other
duties of his former chief.5
H. TRAINING AND PERSONNEL
50. Inadequacies of the Training Program
In East Germany at present there is no special training school for
the employees of the foreign service. There is only an Institute for
Foreign Policy and International Law, in Babelsberg, under the law
faculty of the Academy for Political Science and Jurisprudence. For
the six-semester course at this institute the candidates of the ministry
are chosen by the Personnel Department. The chosen candidates are nearly
always Young Persolts who have taken the final examination of a secondary
school and given evidence of a "progressive attitude".
Older employees of the ministry and the foreign mistions may also
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tension courses; likewise employees of other offices or arganizations
who appear to have qualifications for the diplomatic service.
Instruction is based upon a detailed study
Leninist
philosophy. The methods of instruction are still finco Marxist-and
no rheans on the level of instruction in the large universities andby
advanced schools.
51. Characteristics of Personnel
About 60 percent of the employees of the ministry through the academy are of proletarian origin. Most of these ave
come from the FDJ. After a two-year course of study, and a govern-
ment examination, they are placed immediately as Referenten or Ober-
referenten in the ministry. Most of them, in the opinion of one in-
are outright opportunists whose loyalty in an emergency is
questionable.
The picture that the SED members of the Ministry have of the West
is largely painted by Communist writings about those countries, above
all Palme Dutt's The Crisis of Britain and the British Empire. India
also is seen only through Communist glasses (Pers e
sources the Central Committee and the SED functionaries of the minsuch
istry
derivethe basic belief that they can wait for developments, that they
have a very favorable position in the world for the moment, and that
time is working for them.
1. FUNCTIONS AND FUNCTIONING OF THE MINISTRY'S DEPARTMENTS
52. Main Department I
This main department is responsible for the entire direction and super-
vision of the activity of the embassies and missions of the GDR in
foreign countries. (They exist only in Communist countries,) Here the
political dispatches of the ambassadors and envoys are analy*ed and
evaluated:. All official business with the friendly den cracies is
handled by this department: it draws up and concludes treaties, ex-
changes delegations and documents, and performs many other func
of a similar nature. All business with the foreign embassies andotheir
installations in Berlin is also routed through this department. The
department makes analyses of the relations between the lands of the
Eastern Bloc and the West, and on the basis of these studies makes
proposals to higher levels and draws conclusions for its own work.
also analyzels the activities of the East-Bloc states in international
organizations.
53. Main Department II
a. Since the declaration of sovereignty, this main department has be.
come the most important political office in the Ministry. The in-
dividual country desks prepare reports and analyses on the politi-
cal, economic, and cultural, development of the res
they propose lines of action in regard to those entries cand sug-;
ountries; and sug_
gest solutions for the problems which ch arise.
ib. Special interest is shown in regard to trade, for the
believes that trade relations present the best governmenr
eventual political recognition. Hence this maindeparlitie for
end works
very closely with the foreign-trade organs and the s
In pecihs theegates
of the government in foreign countries.
practice has been increased of sendi recent months the
along with trade delegations, in order to give them theioppounity
of studying other countries at first hand.
c. The same postulates prevail in the Department for international
Organizations, for the GDR is determined to
these also. Since early in 1954j. the gain entrance into
laid on this department. ' principal stress is being
It is considered very important to send
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delegates to conferences and congresses. Even bourgeois exerts
are sent to scientific and learned conferences,, since the attendance'""',r'Y --
of the GDR is estimated of greater value than the harm which might
accrue to the GDR from the critical utterances of these represenatatives.
d. These departments labor under the grave disadvantage that the
majority of their staff members do not know the languages of the
countries with which they deal. They are to a large extent depen-
dent upon translators and interpretors, and upon the texts edited
by the ADN. Their analyses in the end are based largely upon West-
ern documentation, principally colored by reports. through the Com-
munist Party press; they are not based upon direct reporting to
the Ministry from the countries in question.
e. Current information on the _,Anglo-American realms is obtained pri-
marily from a reading of the New York Times and the New York Herald-
Tribufte, and, from England, the Manchester Guardian, the New States
man and Nation and the Daily Worker. All analyses are built up on
the incontrovertible premise of Lenin that all non-Communist parties
and combinations in the capitalistic countries are only playing the
same game with different parts, and that in essence all of them wish
to uphold the capitalist system. That does not exclude the neces-
sity to analyme their internal conflicts and to seek to derive
profit from them. The idea of a "third force" either
in international
politics or inside the countries themselves,,i.a completely ignored.
For the phenomenon of Social Democracy, Lenin's polemic with Kautsky,
is still the touchstone.
54. Main Department III
a. The work of this main department is to observe the policy of the
Western Allies in Germany and Europe, as well as the political
development in West Germany insofar as it is connected with foreign
policy measures.. Special stress is laid on detecting the treaties
and agreements between the Federal Republic and the West. From
the analysis of this policy as well as the measures of the Federal
Republic and the Wstern powers, the department experts derive
conclusions and suggestbons for GDR foreign policy or special
actions in the foreign field. This main department also takes
into account the foreign political measures of Russia which have
to do with Germany or European policy in general. In this main
departmebt most of the declarations of the government on foreign
policy are originated.
b. In spite of its name, "Germany Department", this office has nothing
to do with Communist propaganda in Western Germany. The attitude
of the SPD of West Germany in matters of foreign policy is fo].]ored
by a special desk.
c. This department also suffers from the lack of knowledge of the
western European languages on the part of its leading functionaries.
The documentary bases and the philosophical premises for its
analyses and judgments are similar to those of their colleagues
in Main Department II.
55. Main Department iv
This main department.ihandles all the functions generally associated
with consular affairs in every country. Special efforts are being
.made to establish consular relations with countries of the West. A
special problem guises from the necessity of bringing scattered
families together through repatriation negotiations. GDR negotiations
with Poland regarding German.nationals held in that country have been
marked by a lack of Polish cooperation. In recent months the number
of East Germans traveling- to the West has increased the work of the
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56. Main Department V
The duties and functions of this department are elaborated in the
next major division of this report. (See below, section J.)
97. Finance Department
The foreign-exchange desk (Referat Valutabeschaffung) of the Finance
Department performs the following five functions:
a. It provides foreign exchange for the GDR embassies abroad.
b. It draws up the annual plan on valuta requirements.
It makes a monthly request for foreign exchange from the grain
Department for Foreign Exchange of the Finance Ministry.
d. It ascounts for the use of foreign exchange to the Finance Ministry.
e. It procures foreign currency for travel.
58. Legal Departbent
a. In its present form the Legal Department is fairly new. It has
been given a special task arising from the decisions of the
Russian government to suspend the orders and ordinances of the
former Soviet Military Commission and the Soviet Control Commission.
The department to instructed to study to what extent international
treaties and agreements concluded between the former German Reich
and other states are still valid, and that advantage may be drawn
from them for the GDR. This refers to international maritime
agreements and conventions of the most miscellaneous charactera,
b. A second task of the department is the study of the laws and
ordinances promulgated in the Soviet Union and in the People's
Democracies, and to draw up proposals ffior the organs of justiceD
for pro&ulgating similar-laws and ordinances in the GDR in so far
as they would be approprdAte.
c. A third task of the Legal Department is to follow the development
of jurisdiction (Gerichtsbarkeit) and law-making (Gesetzgebang)
in tea- of significance for the GDR. In cooperation with tthe
legal desk in the Consular Department, questions of bringing
families together, and returning German citizens from foreign
countries are handled by this department.
Legal Department, Functioning
d. A principal duty of this department is the drawing up of minor
treaties and cultural agreements. It is also temporarily involved
in winding up the affairs of the former Invest Department which
was charged with the financing of the buildings of the East-Bloc
countries in Berlin.
59. Interpreter-Translator Staff
There is a severe` shortage of interpreters. Tha:oembers of the staff
are mostly young women of bourgeois background who have graduated :"from
the Leipzig School of Foreign Languages. Regular interpreters are
available for Russian, Polish, French, English, and'recently for the
Scandinavian languages. The principal languages for which no inter-
preters as yet exist in the departments are Czech, Finnth, and the
Asiatic languages. For Hungarian, a member of another department is
called upon. The interpreting for important conferen es on the high-
est level is usually handled by Wolfgang Kiesewetter.7
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60. Personnel Department
a. By the decision of the Politburo on the work of the Foreign Ministry
the emphasis (Schwerpunkt) in the personnel work is placed on selec-
ting and qualifying the personnel available. In view of the rais-
irTof standards for employees of the ministry, it is more difficult
to secure qualified persons for the diplomatic service as well as
for the domestic service (Innendienst). This lack of qualified
.:personnel has become even more acute with the expansion of the
duties of the ministry. Other ministries and offices are required
to place at the disposal of the Foreign Ministry their qualified
staff members.
b. The personnel department is also empowered to select employee*
from the universities' and advanced schools' staffs (Mitarbeiter),
in cooperation with the State Secretariat for Advanced 8choola.
In pursuance of this instruction, for instance, the Central Com-
mitt#9 requested the Institute for Publicity and Journalism of
the University of Leipzig to place five of its staff each year
at the disposal of the ministry for the Press Department. Other
advanced institutions also received a definite quota.
f.
c. The tables of organization of the missions abroad have been altered
to provide numerous attache positions independent of any particu-
lar department of the mission, and directly under the ambassador
or envoy. In these positions, it is intended that younger members
of the ministry may qualify themselves for the diplomatic service
in practical work in the missions. Older, devoted party workers
from other branches of government service are being drawn into
a study of foreign problems in order to build up a reserve of
personnel for the posts of ambassador and envoy.
d. A member of the personnel staff carries on a continuous liaison
with the Academy of Political Science and Jurisprudence in order
to improve the selection of graduates for the ministry.
e. Since a very bad condidion exists with regard to the lack of a
knowledge of languages by the great majority of the ministry's
employees, the personnel department is paying special attention
to language-study. Alongside the already existing Russian con-
versation groups, similar groups for the western languages have
been formed. Classes are being held during office hours and are
financed by the ministry. A priority for certain members is set
up by the personnel department ineconjunction with the main depart-
ment chiefs concerned, so that instruction may take place during
work hours.
Another means of improving the qualifications of members of the
staff, study during free periods, was set up in the so-called
development-conferences with the personnel de
artm
t
en
p
. In line
with the suggestions made in these conferences, every staff mem-
ber was bound to prepare a self-study plan; this plan was then
submitted to the chief of the main department for approval, and
its application was supervised by the respective chief and the
Personnel department. All these measures are supervised by the
training desk of the department. This desk has a special card
file on each staff member, recording the further political tmlin-
ing recommended and the remarks of the group leaders (Zirkeilehrer)
upon the political-science training of the members in question.
g. The personnel policy of the ministry is very often the subject
of much criticism in party and labor-union meetings of the ministry
employees. The most frequent complaint, except on a strictly
personal level, is the complaint that boo often staff members
are sent out to the embassies ina1t6rZy unconnected with
their previous work in the ministry.
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61. Office for the Support of Diplomats6
This office is responsible for (a) the care of foreign diplomats in
Berlin and (b) the care of the German members of the embassies and
trade missions in foreign countries. In serving foreign diplomats
in Germany, the Buero is obligated to fulfill. their every wish promptly.
62. Department A (Communications)
This department is located in the Hinterhaus, Haus 54, in the upper
floor. No other member of the Ministry has access to this department,
even during the inventory period at the end of the year. The windows
are secured by alarm-arrangements. The entrance is a steel door.
.It is guarded by a member of the People's Police.
This department forwards all messages (Nachrichten) from the
different departments of the ministry, whether in cipher or in clear.
The text of such communications must be written upon a special form
(Hausmitteilung) and be signed by the state secretary or his personal
Referent.
Messages of the individual DU1e and the Ministry of Foreign
Trade to the GDR trade missions abroad also pass through this depart-
ment. The expenses are charged to the respective offices at the end
of each month.
J. FUNCTIONS OF MAIN DEPARTMENT V (PRESS AND INFORMATION)
63-Direction of Publicity in East Germany
a. Briefing of the Press and Radio on Foreign Policy
The department systematically directs the press and the radio in
their treatment of foreign policy. Twice every week regular press
conferences are held with the foreign-affairs editors of the East
Berlin papers and the radio, during which they are instructed in
the proper way to cjiment on events or to present them to the
public. These conferences are usually held on Tuesdays and Sat-
urdays from 10-11. To support the efforts of these media, the
ministry supplies them with material on the situation in the
different countries, their political structure, the character
of their parties and other matters. It also provides them with
arguments and even with complete articles vrittenb)ry members of
the ministry. In recent weeks the attempt has been made to extend
the system of press conferences to other cities of East Germany.
ADN (East German News Agency) discusses all questions of
foreign policy with the Press Department of the ministry,, and pub-
lishes news over the teletype and in hectograph form three timef
daily.
At regular intervals reports are drawn up on the output of
this or that newspaper in the field of foreign policy. These
reports are then passed to the Central Committee, to the Press
Office (Presseamt), and to the editors in chief of the papers
concerned. It is planned to extend this activity also to the
radio, the weeklies, and magazcine~s in general. The semi-weekly
press conferences are conducted by the Chief of Main Administration
V, who operates on his own initiative, except in cases where he
wishes to consult the state secretary for higher authority. In
These press conferences, there is no question of giving binding
instructions: the ministry does not have the right to give such
instructions (kein Weisungsrecht), but only recommendations, in
regard to the treatment of foreign policy and related news. On
the whole, its recommendations are followed by the press. The
press conferences are not permitted to deal with West German
news and problems. If the ministry fishes to influence the
Communist press of West Germany, it must do so through the Central:
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is responsible for dealing with the KP press of West Germany.
No actual censorship of the press exists with regard to the
treatment of foreign policy, but frequent complaints from friendly
foram countries act as correctives upon the new output.
Since the end of 1953, as a result of a secret Politburo
resolution, the ministry has undertaken a more energetic influencing
of the press and radio in questions of foreign policy. The organs
of publicity were at the same time instructed tqtreat the matters
of foreign policy with greater care than heretofore.
The semi weekly press conferences elsox.bave an importances
for the influencing of opinion in capitalistic countries. Tian
aspect is treated below. (Section J.co)
The local (Bezirk) press is influenced through two conferees
with its political editors, one in Leipzig and one in Berlin.
This activity has not been particularly successful because the
papers are not sufficiently staffed. Sindermann (fnu) of the
Freiheit (Halle) and Haufe (fnu) (LDP) of the Saechsischea ' blatt
area out the only able editors.
b. Participation in Press Conferences of the Central Commies
The Chief of the Press Department is duty-bound to participate
in the press conferences in the Central Committee,, and there to
place in discussion questions of foreign policy. The conferences
are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 10 and 11
a.m. These conferences are,;held for the benefit of the editors
in chief of the STD newspapers of Berlin10. They are also attensT d
by the representatives of the Press Office, of ADN and the radio.
The total number in attendance is usually 12 to 15 persons. In
these conferences the lines of argument to be taken and the points
to be emphasized in the next issues are indicated to the represen-
tatives.
t
Provincial newspapers of the SED receive these instructions
daily in hectographed form,, or over the teletype, through the
Party Press Service, for which Horst Meyer of the Central Commit-
too staff is responsible.
c. Control of all Public Statements and Ccinmuniquls on Foreign Policy
All communiquis -and statements on foreign policy destined
publicity in the press or over the radio must be routed through
the Press Department. Only after approval.by, the department are
AM and other outlets empowered to publ.sh such announcements and
place them at the disposal of the press.
6$. News Analysis for Internal Consutacption
a. Editing of a Daily Information Bulletin for Officials
The bepartment edits a daily information bulletin of selections
from the announcements and commentaries of the press of the
Western countries. These are published in a series according
to subject, and are provided with short commentaries by the staff
members. This bulletin is sent to a special circle of recipients,
mostly on the minister level. In addition to these daily bulletins,
separate issues are put out on special questions, or the handling
of a special problem.
b. Aum ertungslekteoat, Selection of Articles for Staff Personnel
w.ir.p .~.e.e.s..r.a
The members of the Auswertungslektorat read Western and
West German newspapers and select articles froahem for the use
of the depsrtmental and ministerial staff. The West German
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gam, PRE Tam, Neuer Vorvaerts, Die Welt, Frew furter Zeit sic),,
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auu
Aac ener Nachrichtea. The purpose of thisnction is to prevent
sic- the staff members from reading the entire newspapers themselves.
65. Direction of Publicity ingo Countries
Management of the Press At*ach4s
The press attaches in the embassies and missions in foreign countries
receive their instructions from the Press Department. They are
required to send regular press reports and activity reports to
the Minister. From time to time the attaches are invited to con-
ferences in the ministry,, where they receive new instructions for
their-activity. The department further regulates the entire liaison
with foreign embassies and missions and their offices in regard to
press and radio matters.
Support xaterial, for Embassy Press Bulletins
The Press Department produces through the embassies a press bul.d
letin in the language of the individual country. All material
for this bulletin is provided by the departments, and sent to the
embassies for their use.
Sending of Journalists to Foreign Countries.
In recent years the government bbs failed to send Journalists
regularly into foreign countries. Recently a change has taken
place in consonance with a shifting of the line on foreign policy.
For this reason all possibilities are now being weighed for sending
newspaper men into Western countries, primarily through the medium
of
ti
par
cipation in delegations,
Responsibility for Foreign Journalists in the GM
-.d
The tbzeign correspondents regularly accredited to the GDR are
given pointers, In individual conversations as well as in conm
ferences, as to the popularization in the foreign press of cer.
tain topics which are considered desirable and valuable for the
government of the GDR. tours and visits to enterprises are regu.
larly arranged at the cost of the ministry.
The Journalists from Western countries are also materially
supported by the ministry. They receive 1,000 I* E per month as
well as telephone and telegraph expenses. For cover purposes
these funds are paid through Neues Deutschland. The fund that
takes care of foreign correspo eats, In the bWggtv amounts to
more than 200,000 DME a year. Between 15,000 DMlE and 20,000 Di4
Per Month is paid to the publisher of Neues DeutschMnd for the
'!if#eo oftb corsets of that a T4e O?fice for
the Support of Foreign Correspondents (Buero zur Betreuung der
auslaendischen Korrespondenten) in the House of the Press is respon-
sible for the administration of these matters.
The press Department follows up attentively the despatches
sent by these correspondents to their newspapers, and informs
them discreetly of its wishes or of its criticisms.
On the basis of the decision of the P&litb&o, and the alter..
ation of the previous political line, numerous attempts are under-
taken to psde Journalists from Western countries to visit and
inspect the GM. The purpose of this is to secure more publicity
in the Western press for the progress of East Germany, and also
to mike favorable contacts. Attempts are also being made to ar.
range conversations with foreign correspondents accredited in
West Berlin in order to secure regular connections with them.
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Many such contacts have been made, and many foreign Journalists
have already toured last Germany. The representatives of De Monde
(Paris) and the Berl 21d6aft (Copenhagen) are especial
frequent visitors to East Berlin,
e. Influencing of Foreign Opinion through East German New Media
One of the purposes of the semimveekl.y Press conferences for the
foreign-affairs editors of the East German newspapers is the influ-
encing, through the Neues Deutschland $nd the Taegliche Rundschau
of foreign opinion in the capitalistic countries The 'papers
Neues Deutschland and Taegliche Rundschau are particularly selected
or this task. The government km very well that both these
papers have few readers in East Germany, in fact the Taegliche
Rundschau was h?
ready to fold up in 1953, when the 17thoYJLin:e anter-
ve-The ministry looks upon the Taegliche Rundschau as the
model newspaper for foreign policy, for two reasons; it discloses
the special wishes of the Russians, and it is better edited tha
from the viewpoint of world politics than Neues Deutschland. German
authorities have never been empowered to give orders to the Tae iche
Rundschau.
f. Subsidizing of Foreign News Media
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs finances the Deutsche Woche, of
Munich. The representative of this paper, Franz caber,
pays frequent calls at the ministry. Schoenhuber also has conb-
tactswwith the Southwest German radio, and it is thought that he
maintains liaison with this institution on instructions from the
Central Committee. No actual subsidizing of other West German
news media is known$ but well,- Infomeed persons think it very
probable that other newspapers are supported by funds from the
Press Department.
g. Responsibility for-Exhibits and Trade Fairs Abroad
The ministry, and above all, the Press Department, is responsible
for the installation of trade fairs and exhibitions of the l
in foreign countries. This refers im the first place to the prep
aration of textbooks, catalogues of exhibits., drawings, sculptures,
placards, and the arranging of all these things in their proper
places in the exhibits. It has often happened that the sm'io politi-
cal char
t
f t
ac
er o
he exhibits ls ) fi h
arsas been utterly
inadequate
as ties
b
,
shown
y the exhibit in Cih th
aro weree repre.
seatative of the Bonn government instead of the GI received m
any
. congratulatory letters for the attractive industrial e
hibi
x
t-on
.
The Politburo emphssizedtthat improvement r needed in this I..st11 .
.
ho Coordination of Propaganda Abroad
The Press Department has installed a special Referent whose
primary task is to coordinate the entire output of propsga'
material sent into foreign countries by the various governmwntal
offices and mass organizations. A special magazine is planned
for Western countries, to be edited presumably by Gerhard Eisler,
and to be published in the language of the target country. It
is also planned to expand the German Democratic Report' edit
by John Peet, and to secure its "" 8??e"=
publication by German publisher.
E. RELATIONS Bit 'IWB MINISTRY AND OT HM BODIES
66. Revelations with the Press Office (Presseamt) of the Xinister-President.
.
The Press Offices which is directly under the Minister.presideet, is
an independent office and in no case can it give instructions to the
Press Department of the Ministry. The reverse is also true.
All announcements, ccmmuni s, and atatements designed for the
press by the ministry are given out through the Pros Office. This
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67. Relations with the Committee for German Unity
There is very close liaison between the ministry and the Committee
for German Unity. When the Committee wars first not up; the ministry
detached two of its members for the use of the committee. They were:
Guenther Leuschner, from the Press Department
Manfred Feist, gram Main Department II
.The ministry provides the committee with a mass of propaganda mategial,
situation reports, and addressees in western countries s, and to a lesser
extent in West Germany.
68. Relations with the Chamber of Foreign Trade
addition to their regular
newspaper reporting, and to make connections
with persons and newspapers in the country to which tbey travel.
69. Relations with Other Governmental Offices
Chamber of Foreign Trade, since it is feared that as Journalists they
would be refused admission to foreign countries. The Journalists
'are given instructions to send situation reports to the Ministry in
concerning the planning of trade Hairs and exhibitions. East German,
Journalists sent by the Press Department of the ministry to trade
fairs and exhibitions. in foreign countries travelllusually as "honest
businessmen" (biedere Bandelsleute) with passports made out by the
The connection with the Chamber is limited mostly to discussions y
a
s w
o
l came to Est German for exhibi-
tions and conferences. This is especially true-with Sweden:
Communist leader Sven Landin and editor'lannart Brick' of the Commu-
nist newspaper, & , are contaet.amen for the Swedish lbrelga Office.
The only remaining connections of importance are between the ministry
and the Institute for Current History,, '""
the German Economic Inatituief ~.~
and the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. The
German Economic Institute (Deutsches Wirtschafteinstitut) under Sigbert
Kahn sends monthly reports on economic questions to the ministry. {o
The society for Cultural Relations is bubordinate to the ministry but
has its own budget. Its personnel, howevers, are appointed through
the Personnel Department of the ministry. ;
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70. Relations with western 10N
a. A close connection exists with certain employees of the French
administration in Berlin-Frohneu. Contact is made through Dr.
Kaul ( fun), a lawyer. 13
b. The Foreign Ministry also has relatively good contacts with cer-
tain Scandinavian Cwnmuni
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a service office (Dienststelle) set over all newspapers and is there
fore the one best suited to coordinate all releases from the govern.
mental agencies. Naturally the Ministry of-Foreign Affairs can insist
that its releases be given unconditiona1Iy to the press,,.Ouce.in a
while, to be.sure, announcements of minor importance are held up th
by the Press Office and not given publicitya=i
While the Berlin BED papers are instructed through press con-
ferences of the Central Committees, with a member of the Foreign Office
~...
Press Department in attendance, the East Berlin bourgeois papers
receive their instructions direct from-the Press Office of the Minister
President. These instructions are the same as those previously
certed in the Central Committee with the difference that the mat-trial
is tailored for non-party consumption. These Press Office con. ences
which take place twice a week are handled by the Chief, Fritz Beyling,
or his deputy, Kurt Blecha. About five editors12 and a' number of memo
hers of the Press Office customarily take part in them. The respective. ?'1
party chiefs are rpspo ible for the transmission of the instructions ? ~~
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a. It is planned to open GDR embassies in India and North Vietnam
in 1955.
b. In Moscow, besides the above-.mentioned trade delegation, there
is a permanent trade commission from East Germany. The members
this commission remain in Moscow about a year and a half, and then replaced by others.
C. In the diplomatic service, a tour of duty abroad is usuealy two.
years,
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L. DkTA ON THE GDR MISSIONS ABROAD
71. Comparative Size of the Missions
Number of Employees
Mission
Cow Germans Natives
Albania 4 3
Bulgaria 10 15
China 10 25
Czechoslovakia 25 20
Hungary 15 15
Northi{orea
5 3
Poland 15 15
Rumania 15 15
USSR 25 20
Finland 0 0
72. Total Expenditures for Foreign Exchange 195$
1 20,000 rubles
35 1140,000 lea
5 80,000 rubles
10 200,000 o
5 130,000 ?orints
5 60,0oo rubles
5 180,000 zloty
-10 16o,ooo lei
10 200,000 rubles
5 1,OOO,OOO Finnmark
The plan for 15514 called for a total of 9,000,000 rubles of foreign
exchange for the missions and embassies. This was equivalent to abut
5,000,000 W. Owing to the increase of the foreign service, however,
the ministry requested an additional 1,700,000 rubles, but received
only 1,0}0,000 rubles.
73. Salaries and Emoluments
74.
a. Membership in the SED (the only exception is Manfred Schmidt).
Employees of the German missions abroad continue to receive their full
salary in mast marks'
. in Germany. They also receive a second
salary in the Mr':enc3i;. of-the :00U-ntz7 Where they are stationed; this
is called the foreign-service incienent (Auslandezulage). It is ap-
portioned according to salary scale.. An increase of 20 percent is
granted for a wife who is not an employee, and an increase of 10
percent for each dependent child. The salary of an ambassador, in
general,is about ten times the salary of a professional worker (Fach?
arbeiter) in the country to which he is accredited. Hach employee
must pay a monthly charge for the use of furnishings since all quarters
in foreign countries are completely furnished by the ministry.
Security Provisions
Basic security qualifications for positions in the mission abroad are
No close relatives.tn west Germany, West Berlin,and-, other Western
countries.
c- NO'rrelatives in the eountr7 of employment,
Employees of any mission abroad may not have any dealings with natives
or other foreigners. When they leave the, building of the embassy,
?tthey must check out and give the address to which they are going.
75. Miscellaneous Notes
Trade Mission Average Cost per
of
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76.
d. The East German trade delegation in Cairo, in contrast to that
in Helsinki, is not financed by the GDR Foreign Ministry, but by
the Ministry of Foreign and Domestic Trade. This arrangea~ent is
to be adopted for a number of other newly planned trade delegations,
which will WC0M .U-fledged DIA-repres"tatjIes . i. fi
the Eastern Bloc is also handled by the Ministryce Foreign ~~#
These persons are selected by party units in conjunction with the
The financing of But German citizens studying in other co es
F q n a n c i of B a s t t30=an M i n i s t r y
st
State Secretariat for Advanced Schools. During 1954 the following
members of East Germans were studying in foreign countries:
Russia (mostly Leningrad)
500
China
about
10
Poland
about
10
Bulgaria
4
They receive their foreign currency for living expenses through the
East German embassies in those countries. These figures do not in-
clude people studying at party schools in foreign countries, or taking
part in special party training.
M. cOURI AJND ES
71. Courier Service
a. Couriers a d:ispatch$ from YZent Germany only to the Soviet
Union amid the People Democracies. There is a courier once a
week to the Soviet Union and the European Democracies, to China
fortnightly, and to Albania once a month. Couriers always travel
by mil, never by airplawe a there air connections exist.
The following persons Sr. couriers:
(1) Franz Feyerherd, SED
(2) Rudi Pecker, SM.
(3) Ernst Loehn, BED
(4) Le= (fm), BED
c.. In ease of need, emplftees of the personnel department of the
Ministry are utilized as courier,, cos well as Hermann Willisow of
the confidettial documents departmremt.
78. Tel-eh Connections
The ministry is connected by telegraph with Moscow, Prague, and Bucharest.
There is also a direct line to Peking, but it is little used because of
bad reception. The usual channel is Berlin to Moscow to Peking.
79. Teletype Connections
The ministry maintains teleI pe connections with Warsaw and Budapest.
Connections with Sofia and with Tirana are planned, but as yet the
apparatus and telewriters a in short supply.
80. Telephone connections
Telephone conversations are carried over the postal net c. There
are no direct wires from the ministry to other places= the minister
and the state secretary are permitted to use the private government
system, with vIIich the ministry is connected.
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Letters to lands of the Eastern Bloc go by the couriers; letters to
points within East Germany go throughtthe Protocol Department and the
messenger service. Important messages between the ministry, the Soviet
embassy, and the Central Committee are generally carried by Peter 7 -
Florin of the Central Committer himself.
82. Telephone Numbers
a.
Office of the Minister
2206
2800
b..
Office of the State Secretary
2850
C.
Main Department I (Grosse)
2906
d.
Main Department 11 (Gyptner)
2853
e.
Main Department III (Meissner)
28112
f.
Main Department IV (Wiedemann)
2956
Main Department V (Kiesevetter)
2806
h.
Personnel Department
2852
i.
Protocol Department
Private numbers:
5
(1) Fritz Grosse
59 50
52
(2) Ferdinand,Tl t, Protocol
59 42
45
(3) Wolfs .Kief,ewetter
48 78
04
(4) Will wolf, Chief of Motor Pool
58 19
66
(5) Meissner's chauffeur, Sehesldek (feu)
55 32
28
(6) Peter Florin, Centre Committee
48 30
90
E7) Fritz Beyling, pry Qfric,s
226753
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL nnumn 11 T TIQN OF MUM POLICY
83. Peter Florin
The perms with the most influence in the formulation of East German
foreign policy is Peter Florin, the chief of the Foreign Policy Depart-
ment of the SED Central Committee. Not only does he atend the veekl.
meetings of the Ministry policy committee (Kollegium); he also recdres
and transmits to the Central Committee copies of all important despatches
and reports from the GAR embassies abroad, as well as situation reports
from Journalists sent on special missions.
8 The Ministry Policy committee
a? The policy Committee is responsible for all monthly and quarterly
plaes of the main departments and the independent departments
all
plans for alterations in' organizational structure, and all '
fundamental decisions. The same applies to the entire activity
of the diplomatic representatives. The chiefs of the main de-
partments report regularly to the Policy Committee, which also
supervises the carrying out of its decisions. It is also respon-
sible for the more important disciplinary questions, for matters
of security and secrecy as well as for the social questions of
the ministry brought before it by the BGL. Personnel and security
matters are presented to the committee by the BPO Secretary who
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is an ex-officio member.
b. Four lines of influence emanate from the SED to the Policy Committee:
(1) From the Central Committee through Florin
(2) Through the Ministry Party Organization (BPO)
,3) Through personnel policy (Kaderpolitik)
(1) Through contacts between individual,;departments, main depart-
ments, the minister, and the state secretary with the depart.
ments and the secretariat of the Central Committee.
c. The agenda of the Policy Committee is made up essentially from
six sources, which can take the initiative in proposing matters
for decision by the committee:
(1) The BED Central Committee through Florin
(2) The Minister President, Presidium of the Council of Ministers,
and Council of Ministers
(3) The main departments and departments of the ministry
(4+) The East German diplomatic f6presentative abroad.
(5) Other ministries
(6) The BPO and the BGL of the ministry.
85. Central Committee Influence
Al]. important questions on foreign policy are discussed with the
Central Committe by the minister or the secretary of state, But
the Central Committee, in spite of its great influence, does not
determine every detail of policy nor treat the minister and the
ministey employees merely as executors of the party will. The Central
Committee limits its activity, first, to layigg do= general policy
(die grosse Linie), second, reserving the decision to itself in deli-
cate matters, and third, placing itself at the disposal of department
chiefs and Referenten in cases of doubt on their part. Through Peter
Florin's participation in all sessions of the Ministry Policy Commftee,
the Central Committee can at any -time dkaw to itself any matters of
which it wishes to take cognizanco4,
The Central Committee probably has confidential contacts in
each GDR mission abroad, which keep it regularly informed.
86. Influence of the Minister and Higher Functionaries
The central core (Stamm) of the higher functionaries of the ministry
are extremely intelligent persons. This is especially true of the
minister himself, whois able to extract the maximum of achievement
from his limited sphere of activity. The limitations placed upon the
Minister are illustrated by the incident of the initiation of commer-
cial negotiations with India. The Policy Committee instructed the
Ministry to take up the matter in conversations with the Indian envoy
in Moscow; the final report was to be laid before the Committee by
the GDR ambassador in Moscow; and the Committee then would determine
the further implementation by itself.
The main departments and the departments are very much limited
in their power of decision. The despatches from the diplomatic missions
comprise a constant and important share of the discussions of the Policy
-Committee. Other ministries turn to{,the Policy Committee mostly when
they seed the suppti;; -f the W nistry or when they have complaints,
such as jurisdictional disputes.
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87- SED Party Influence
The Percentage of SED members among the employees of the ministry is
large Compared to that of other ministries. Of approximately 400 em-
ployees of the Ministry, some 220 to 250 belong to the SED. There
are Party-groups in all departme#ats4 In important matters Florin seeks
.support first and foremost in the party organization, because the
minister is a member of a middle-class party. For instance, the im-
portant, resolution of the Politburo (in June 1954) concerning tlsi ork
of the Foreign Ministry was first revealed by Florin in a party assembi~.
and was communicated, confidentially, to the Ministry Policy Commit ,
tee.
The announcement was not made by the minister nor by the state secrem
terry, but through the party comrades, in order to document the lead-
ing role of the party.
To strengthen the role of the party in the ministry the incoming
personnel (Kadernachwuchs) of the ministry is recruited principally
from those graduates of the Academy of Political and Legal Science
who are loyal to the BED and., in all cases, schooled in 21arxismm
Leninism. Between 1952 and 1954 about 30 to 35 graduates-'of the
wtaken into the upper levels of the ministry, and designated
acdeetraining".
There is little effort to exert party influence on the lover levels
through the party cells (BPO).
0. THE DEGREE OF MEPEND NGE OF EAST GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY
88. Relations with the Russian Authorities
It is incorrect to state that the East German government is incapable
of undertaking any independent action in foreign affairs. The Russian
authorities are making every effort to preserve the appearance of sover-
eignty for the GDR. There are no advisers nor instructors of Russian
natioaklity attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in contrast
to the plan ministries. Relations are maintained
embassies in Moscow and Pankow, Only largely d through the
give direct instructions to the Foreign Mi rare instances do the Russians
Ministry.
On the other hand, there is a line of communication between the
Russian Presidium and the East German Politburo.
of East German declarations and decisions of And Russian approval
desired, is secured through political importance, if
the Moreover, the Moscow Pravda,whichis studied by the mCommittee.
with exceptional thoroughness, is a very si nlflu-
enc. on large r ~->e source of Russian influ
aspects of policy. For instance, it was a Pravda
article in August 1954, giving Tito the title of
first
time, that provided the hint for a complete revisioMarshal the
n fer policy
of the GDR toward Y of the policy
ugoslaviao
890 Determination of General. Line of Polio
.The general line of foreign policy, as given in Walter Ulbricht'a
report to the 4th BED party convention in 1954, tan drawn up not
in cooperation with Pankow but also with Moscow, The concrete only
of implementation of this general line were contained in the resolution
of the SED Politburo (June 1954) concerning GDR foreign
rind the work of the Ministry of Forei policy
'work, the government of East Germany ~ Affairs ? Within this frame-
can develop their own initiative and take tdistinctive measuresgnin foreign
Policy.
90. Doeisions on Substantive Hatters
One expression of this degree of individuality is the fact that the
work plan that embraces the entire:$ctivity of the ministry is drawn
up in the ministry itself., then determined by the Policy Committee,
and thereafter is considered valid. The ministry is under no obli-
gation to have this plan approved by the Russian authorities,
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treaties without seeking the approval of the Russians. However, where
it is a question of setting up a trade mission for the first time in
a certain country, the Soviet authorities are consulted. Such consul-
tations take place in the first instance between the minister or the
state secretary and the Russian ambassador in Berlin.
P. EAST GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY AS REFLECTED IN PRESS POLICY
93 The New Course in Foreign P` Policy
After the failure of the Four-Power Conference in February 1954, Moscow
realized that a reunification of Geramanyiin a form acceptable to Russia
would not be possible. Therefore the previous course was changed and
the policy of Russia toward Germany was linked to the objective of
upholding and strengthening the status quo. For this reason--apart
from considerations of prestige--the sovereignty oftthe GDR was con-
firmed in the declaration of 25 March 1954, in order to give the
government the possibility of securing its international recognition
and internally stabilizing its system to a further degree.
Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by reason of its structure
and its personnel, was not abreast of the new tasks allotted to it
by this declaration and by the resolutions of the Fourth Party Con-
vention, the Politburo of the SED Central Committee passed its first
resolution concerning the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the principal tasks in the realm of foreign policy. With this reso-
lution a general change in the attitude of the GDR government in foreign
affairs was introduced.
ities in Karishorst regularly sounded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
before permitting individual citizens from America., Great Britain,or
France to travel in East Germany.
At the close of the EDC debate in Paris in August 1954, a public
statement in regard to the event was prepared by Main Department III,
.was sent to the Presidium of the Minister Council for approval, and
.was published without consulting the Russian authorities in any way,
91. Publicity on Foreign Policy
The Russians make no attempt to interfere with the influencing of ua,e
press and the radio in the GDR on matters of foreign policy. in tb*
press conferences of the ministry with the foreign affairs editors
of the East German newspapers, the official position of the GDR is
laid down in regard to specific events, without previous consultation
with any Russian authorities.
92. Relations with Western Countries
Regarding relations of the GDR with Western countries, the government
may carry out its own policy. Evidence of this is the fact that the
trade organs or the GDR hold negotiations independently and conclude
After the granting of sovereignty to the GDR, the Russian author-
94. Policy Toward the Countries of the Eastern Bloc
The resolution critict ed the prevtous policy toward the countries
of the Eastern bloc, which consisted more or less of mutual expressions
of friendship and of German demands for the assistance of these coun-
tries in economic reconstruction. The resolution recommended an active
foreign policy and more substantial political relations. The resolu-
tion was aimed at overcoming difficulties such as the mistake that
happened in regard to the People?s Republic of Hungary. Hungary spon-
sored an art exhibition in Berlin lasting several weeks without secur-
ing a single notice in the GDR press or on the radio.
After the promulgation of the resolution of the Politburo, the
East German press and the radio were instructed to kc better and
more frequent reports upon the progress of the countries of the Eastern
Bloc, and to report the weaknesses and the mistakes made in those
countries without mincing words. In a conference between Minister
Bolz and the editors in chief of the East Berlin newspapers and radio,
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several editors emphasized the point that it vas impossible-to embel-
?fish everything in rosy colors; eueh a policy only made the readers
ask vhy such decisions were taken in this or that J.-oanatryp -Pr- ce
on the weaknesses4n the farming picture; the press had always reporp
ted that everything was in fine shapes For the very first time,
Minister Bola officially stated that the press of the GI in the
future should also picture the seamy side of the development in the
people's democracies.
This statement was bolstered with the minister.. ilea for the
gopd" of a number of regular 'foreign correspondents to the countries
of the Eastern Blocs for which he promised the editors his support.
_
After the above-mentioned resolution had appeared, the Pre
Department of the ministry prepared reports and statistics to stow
what articles and how much space was given by the sifferent neva--
papers to the progress of the USSR and the Peopleds Domocracies.
The department also read with avidity the despatches on the GDR sent
by the regular correspondents of the other Peopleefts Democracies in
Berlin. occasionally a Journalist was vand that he was writing
too much about West Germany and West Berlin, and too little about the
GDR and East Berlin, and that he-shad ' better change his policy.
The work plan of Main Administration I was given similar extent
sions of its activity. Nearly all country desks were instructed to
prepare reports on the policy of these countries toward the countrin
of South America. The Polish and Czech desks were fiven the task of
watching closely the activity of these countries in,the General Assembly
of the United Nations, and the positions that they took in regard to
the German question in other international bodies.
Considerable emphasis was placed, in talks Aith foreign diplo-
slats of the Eastern Bloc and in the press friendly to the 0M.9 upon
the fact that the GDR was now a sovereign state with the 'power of
decision over all its internal and foreign affairs, including relations
wttb_iWest# Wiy, and consequently endowed with the rift to conduct
a: independent foreign policy.
95. ,,Policy Toward Western Co Aries
Ith resolution of the Polttb&o in regard to foreign policy contained
the directive (Feststellu*) that the foreign policy of the GDR in
the future should stress increasingly an attentiveness toward the
West (Schwergewicht nach dam Weston). The GDR should never again let
itself be discriminated against in foreign countries of the West
without protest. Peter Florins chief of the Foreign Policy Department
of the Central Comaittee,, criticised 3a a closed party meeting, the
lark of initiative - tby the ministry in combatting the publica.
tion of the British White Book on the Garrisoned People's Police.
Only when the Central Committee had taken a stand and ;nstructed the
ministry to prepare a declaration against the White Books was any
action taken.
A Sher example of the faults and defects of policy is the
fact that the GDR failed 'to take counter action ehen the Greek press
hailed Chancellor Adenauers on the occasion of his visit to Athens,
as the representative of the new Germany. More had to be done to
convince the people of the Western countries that the one and only
representative of the new Germany is and can be the GDR, and that
the foreign policy of the GLIB embodies a policy which is to the interest
of the whole of German.
96. Relations with Finland
The Politburo instructed the ministry to seize every opportunity to
1*8=e or to extend relations with the nations of the West. To this
end, the chief of Win Department V, Kiesewatter, undertook a trip
to Helsinki with instructions to assess the work of the trade mission
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creasing;'toe activity of :the GDR-, in Finland. In-a confidential re-
-_port`'to~ the minister and state secretary, it was confirmed that the
stiff nfember of the ministry in the trade delegation, Walter Rehse,
had-not succeeded in carrying out the instructions of the ministry,
and that his -recall was therefore absolutely essential. On.the basis
of: this report, Rehse,was immediately recalled.
In the same.report it was:-further stated that the trade mission
above all had not understood'how to combat.foreign propaganda about
East German ,znd that the Finnish press,and especially the large dailies
in Helsinki, were.reprintingthe. notices about East Germany from the
West.Berlin newspapers. The report recommended that-'the attention
of the Finnish consul-general in. East Berlin :be Galled to the partiality
of the Finnish press, stressing that the press of. the GDR reported
objectively on Finnish-progress.
It was further stated that the Western powers, and the USA in
particular, were very active in spreading propaganda in Finland.
Ancricans had 'tn';en up quarters in almost ever/ hotel and American
films were srown in almost every motion-I)icture mouse. The report
concluded, therefore, that the GDR should strengthen its propaganda
in Finland, stressing not only commercial interests but also politi-
cal facts. It recommended that a politically important member of the
ministry be sent to serve with the trade mission; that the ministry,
in cooperation with the Central Committee and the Press Office of the
Minister President, should instruct the press and radio to report
regularly upon the political, economic, and cultural progress of Fin-
land; and that a regular exchange of photographs be instituted between
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Q. FOREIGN OFFICE ATTITUD TOWARD SPECIFIC PIOBLM
102. The Paris Agreements
The fact that the Department for German Affairs of the ministry for
months hen been occupied with studies on the effects of rearmament
and the Western system of treaties, indicates that from the beginning
the Foreign Office reckoned With the signing of the Paris Agreements
and Will not be taken by surprise when and if they are ratified.
103. Withdrawal of Russian Troops from Bast Germany
There are no indications whatever that the Soviet Union has any in-
tentionB 'of actually withdrawing its troops out of Germany. After
the failure of the Berlin Foreign Ministers" ConfeTea in early
1954, the aim of Soviet policy has been the mains
ing of the status quo in enance and strengthen-
regard to the existence of two German states.
Along with economic and political reasons, it is the strategic reasons
Particularly make it appear advantageous to Russia to maintain
her occupation troops in ftsides this, the 17th of June 1953
shoved the true situation with regard to the stability of the so-called
,democratic order" in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Moscow knows very
well that the
Present political system in the Zone can be maintained
only under the protection of the Soviet tanks.
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In view of the recent Moscow declaration
mission of military sovereignty to the s which aims at the trans.
the Paris Agreements., t = after the ratification of
will ar s withdrawing exists the possibilite .that a dec
made ng the Soviet troo 1
time, however, a military agreement bet we fhe t(MR he and G.
the U80 et She
be absolutely essential the would
as "protective troops ", "e~dviserse et troops the right to =,eohj
n
tic appe ,tion. s or under some other similar eta:
lO. Relations with Poland
a. Oder-Weise Bounds
The Foreign Ministry is not aware of
Prepared to negotiate over the Oder.Nej any rumors n thy. 1 sfa is
the opinion is expressed there that boundary. In fact
no reason for a new discussion of this would be absolutely
definitively settled by the concluding question.,
delimitation it hagr eee_
resat. None the less, in all eonm ioMB withoffiic agre
tatives, diplomats,-and journalists ~ res.. ?
i from Poland a certain mis-
trust
trust of the finality of the pder
N
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e
could be detected,
German Settlers in Poland
The Polish authoritties at present do not
German to return West P+ it a single former
return to Est German only Ge2many (sic)' They permit them to
turn to West y when a 9 mates is given that no re-
tee cto Wet rmany will be granted by the GDR . Such a gu -
only be given in ve
the problem of the former German citizens is an acute
pob3 robl it'
relations with Poland. ent in
d Polish suspicion of cr!-r~,,.
Early in July 19i the Foreign Minitwo Journalists into Poland. The 3o cy =dertook to send tens, selected and land, Td ur ists sere Fast Germ citi.
task was to travel thro the BED v Central Ccssnittee. Theme
notes and gh tha e Polish h western lands from Stettin
to Breslau, to collect u
Provide up-to-date material for topePres trees og get ~f
~ in order to
Publication on tie 1 0 ~~ holi y for
The Polish F~orei falls on 22 hJuly
trips on the grounds that two' day which denied Permission for the
to Wareax for the nstti 3OUrnalists already had been seat
an Poland could be ~ holiday and that into-date material
supplied by the proper Polish authorities.
Instances such as this give the
strong impression that the Polish authoritiiesOff tho aletry the
to keep a cloak over the development i{z,~ uslly a d sous
and are imbued with a certain mist "1"' Polish western lands
and mass organizations. rust of Ssst German authorities
d? Polish pnpgganda in Berlin
Both the Polish representatives in
Foreign Ministry in Wareaw Bstlin as well as the Polish
thetfeeli have mentioned to German representativs.
fieient at8ten that nthe Poj d ~ einsi nd radiornational do and not
give suf?
~~ European Politics. In order to owe Par'ticu~
the Polish
embassy in Berlin or rcome this supposeg deficiency
uadertn a very active foreign
tPhe da? BY the law regulat bAs
mpaM
Po11sh embassy is n the relations with foreign agencies,
with the the press sad 10DW allowed to maintain direct radio of the contact
almost dril Gam, Therefore, the Polish embass
lnentdaily furnished the ministry with a host o Y
apolitical, upon s foreign policy and Po f d'& ante and
follows nomic, and cultural development. And the
nol, and P 'tea carefully whether the material is Published or
complains when such releases are not published,
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The Polish :Ambassy also sends large quantities of elegantly printed
magazines and books, in German, to social and cultural organizations,
scientific institutes, graduate schools,and regular schools.
The Polish embassy also takes pains to collect the addresses of
West German organizations, newspapers, radio stations, and pri-
vate individuals so that it. can send its propaganda to them also.
.e. Subscriptions to German and Polish Newspaxers
Owing to the large number of former German citizens in Poland,
the demand for German publications there is much greater than-
the East German demand for Polish Publications. For instance,
several thousand copies of the Berliner Zeitung are subscribed
for in Poland, whereas in East Germany and East Berlin toretc e;..
not even a hundred subscriptions to the Trtbuna Lud:+ are taken
out. Repeatedly the Polish embassy has comfnd of this situ-
ation
accusi
th
,
ng
e East Germthi
an auorties of failing to exhaust
all possibilities for promoting subscriptions to Polish papers.
Conclusion
From the above examples, and many others, as well as from con-
versations with Polish diplomats and journalists;,, the member's
of the ministry have concluded that the relation between Poland
and East Germany do not correspond to the stock phrase used by
official personalities of both 6 too, t,h: ,; unt,rr~ubled nd ,fin
destructible German-Polish friendship."
105. The United Nations
In order to secure international recognition, the GDR encouraged the
formation of the League for the United Nations, whose president is
Professor t . I. The Foreign Ministry is quite ready to
accept a solution '~Of the United Nations impasse on embership, by
which both the GDR and the West German Federal Republic together would
be admitted, perhaps in company with the 14 other states from both
camps now being excluded by the veto. Not much hope however is placed
in this possibility,
The GDR propaganda line on the United Nations stresses the
ineffectiveness of that body so long as Communist China is not a mem-
ber. This a, went carries a good deal of weight with thtktnore in-
telligent functi!cnaries of the ministry.
The ministry is very desirous to secure membership in the UN
European Economic Commission. The initiative for a correspondence
on-this matter came from a talk between Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish social
scientist and former 'UNESCO member, and Otto Grotevohl, in Pankow;
Richard Gyptner an ,-"ther Seifert were chosen as delegated but,
foreseeing a refusal, G(lyptner was given a letter in Which it VU
stated that the GDR woudd continue to cooperate with the work of the
subcommissions, particularly those on coal and trade.
1~ Comnsent:
epax meats su the chiefs of the general
is
committee. Other.. information indicates t
tt
hat besid
h
,eei a the
mart departments, the reguZpar of tembership includes Aenne Kuddermanri chief
the Russian Department and the chier -.p s
tine central Committee and actually
;
for,,,,' o t-0ornment is coming to be ^+4.-
th
Mazer
%a2 ,e
. VOr Wilhelm Pisek. personal secre~.
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Count: Evil Rathmsnnn is away and will probably not return.
Meanwhile, his duties are divided between his two deputiesF -
Consent: According to more recent information, this office was
separated from the ministry on 1 February 1955.
+Coament: Albin Wild in this position
of Siegfried Zachmann.
La nt: According to recent information, Koenig has been named
as envoyNorth Vietnam, in addition to his duties in China.
Comment: The conferences with Chou En-lai were principally con-
duct~ German, since Chou still speaks a good German, having learned
it during his student days.
Cdsnent: These papers, include the Taegliche Rundschau, Neues
Deutschland., Tri~ buene, Jung. Welt, Der Kaemp~rqrp Der Volkepolizist,
and others.
Coment: There is no longer a newspaper with this name in West
Either the Frankfurter AI3ine (independent) or the Frank.
furterRundschau (in ntd6PD) is probably meant.
Comment: The five bourgeois papers of Bast Berlin are the Berliner
Zeitu t BZ em Abend, Derma (LDP), National-Zeitung (NW), and the
Neue Zeit CDU .
Comments Possibly Dr. Friedrich Karl Kaul of Berlin N 542
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