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Peter Florin was born on 2 October, 1921 in Cologne, Germany, is an East German politician and diplomat. Discover Peter Florin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 2 October 1921
Birthday 2 October
Birthplace Cologne, Germany
Date of death 17 February, 2014
Died Place Berlin, Germany
Nationality Germany

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Parents Wilhelm Florin (1894–1944) Therese Althammer/Florin (1902–1990)
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1894

His father, Wilhelm Florin (1894 - 1944), was a leading figure in the pre-war Communist Party of Germany.

1921

Peter Florin (2 October 1921 – 17 February 2014) was an East German politician and diplomat.

Florin was born in Cologne on 2 October 1921.

1924

and, between 1924 and 1933, a member of the Reichstag (national parliament).

1933

Florin left Germany with his parents in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power and began persecuting Communists, moving first to France and then to the Soviet Union, where he attended the Karl Liebknecht School.

There, he studied chemistry at the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology.

During the Second World War, he fought with the Soviet partisans in Belarus.

1944

In 1944, Florin became editor of Freies Deutschland, a weekly anti-Nazi newspaper.

At the end of the war, he returned to Germany as a member of the Ackermann Group, one of the regional groups sent to lay the groundwork for the Soviet Military Administration in Germany.

Following the war, Florin entered politics in the German Democratic Republic and served as vice-president of the regional parliament of Wittenberg, while working as chief editor of the daily newspaper Freiheit.

1949

Then, from 1949 to 1952, he was an advisor for the East German ministry of foreign affairs.

1953

In 1953, he was promoted to the head of the department of foreign affairs of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany's central committee.

1954

From 1954 to 1971, he was a member of the country's parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, which he presided over for a time.

1967

From 1967 to 1969, Florin was East Germany's ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

1968

He supported the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring uprising in 1968.

1969

In 1969, he was named secretary of state and first deputy foreign minister.

1973

From 1973 to 1982, Florin was the German Democratic Republic's permanent representative to the United Nations.

1980

His wife Edel was, in the late 1980s, a professor of Russian literature at Humboldt University in East Berlin.

Florin spoke fluent German, Russian and English, and good French.

During his presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, he was, according to the New York Times, "nicknamed 'Comrade Glasnost' by delegates, who s[aw] him as him a symbol of the modern Communist of the Gorbachev era."

1982

In 1982, he became president of the national commission for UNESCO in East Germany.

1987

In 1987 and 1988, he presided over the forty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Peter Florin was married, and had three children.

2014

He died aged 92 in 2014.