451:, of which he would remain a member till 1963. From 1958 till 1964, he led the SPK's central Department for International economic Relations, also becoming, in 1961, the head of the SPK's Moscow liaison office. He joined the East German Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1964, heading up the ministry's Economics department. He then served as his country's ambassador to the
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