Lothar Bolz

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Lothar Bolz.

Lothar Bolz (3 September 1903 – 28 December 1986) was an East German politician. From 1953 to 1965 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany (GDR).

Biography

Lothar Bolz was born in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia, now Poland, on 3 September 1903.^[1] His father was a watchmaker.^[2]

He studied law at the universities of Breslau and Kiel.^[1] After his study he worked as a lawyer in Breslau^[2] and in 1930, he joined the Communist Party of Germany. After the Nazis seized power in 1933 he was forced to quit as a lawyer:^[2] Bolz went to Moscow, finding work as a teacher at the Marx-Engels Institute. From 1941 to 1945 he was headteacher of the so-called Antifascist School, where German POWs were taught to become antifascists. During his stay at the Soviet Union, he became a Soviet citizen and retained dual citizenship.^[3] In 1947, he returned to Germany and joined the East German Socialist Unity Party, but in 1948 he founded the Communist sponsored National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD). Many members of the NDPD were former Nazis and former Wehrmacht officers. From 1948 to 1972 he was the chairman of the NDPD. In 1949 he became a member of the People's Chamber (Parliament) and from 1949 to 1953 he was Minister of Reconstruction. From 1950 to 1967 he was one of the Deputy Prime Ministers of the GDR. In 1953,^[1] being the successor of Foreign Minister Anton Ackermann. He stayed in the office until 1965. From 1950 to his death he was a member of the Presidium of the National Front. He also acted as the chairman of Society for German-Soviet Friendship from 1968 to 1978.

Bolz died on 28 December 1986 in East Berlin at the age of 83.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Deaths elsewhere. Lothar Bolz". Toledo Blade (Berlin). AP. 29 December 1989. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Lothar Bolz". Elections and Political Parties in Germany, 1945-1952. Salisbury, NC: Documentary Publications. 1952. p. 28. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
↑ Kaplan, Bernard (6 June 1959). "Grinning Red in Geneva". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved 12 September 2012.

v t e Chairmen of the National Democratic Party of Germany

Lothar Bolz Heinrich Homann Günter Hartmann Wolfgang Glaeser Wolfgang Rauls

v t e Foreign Ministers of Germany

German Empire (1871–1918)	Thile Balan B. E. von Bülow Radowitz Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Limburg-Stirum Busch Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg von Bismarck Bieberstein B. von Bülow von Richthofen von Tschirschky-Bögendorff von Schoen von Kiderlen-Waechter von Jagow Zimmermann von Kühlmann von Hintze Solf von Brockdorff-Rantzau

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)	von Brockdorff-Rantzau Müller Köster Simons Rosen Wirth Rathenau von Rosenberg Stresemann Curtius Brüning von Neurath

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)	von Neurath von Ribbentrop Seyss-Inquart Schwerin von Krosigk

German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (1949–1990)	Dertinger Ackermann Bolz Winzer O. Fischer Meckel de Maizière

Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949)	Adenauer von Brentano Schröder Brandt Scheel Genscher Kinkel J. Fischer Steinmeier Westerwelle Steinmeier

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 32928459 LCCN: n90638223 GND: 124381197

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Name	Bolz, Lothar
Alternative names
Short description	German politician
Date of birth	1903
Place of birth
Date of death	1986
Place of death

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