Georg Dertinger Der: vergessene Aussenminister

In: Welt-Trends: das außenpolitische Journal, Heft 58, S. 113-116

Abstract

George Dertinger, Secretary-General of the East-German CDU and the DDR's first minister of foreign affairs, has to a large extent disappeared into oblivion. Since an arrest and a political process finished his career, "East-Germany" stopped talking about him. In the west his reputation was largely build on his part in the construction SED-Diktatur. Whether or not, for Dertinger this was an actual matter of the heart, remains an unanswered question. As a foreign minister he was of the opinion that Stalin, as a statesman, was interested in a united Germany. The contacts that Dertinger maintained with both Russia and West-Germany, stood likewise in the service of reunification politics. O. van Zijl