Wolfgang Bergold

Wolfgang Bergold (19 April 1913 – 14 August 1987) was an East German politician and diplomat who in 1963 was appointed as his country's ambassador to (North) Vietnam.

As a young man he was a persistent participant in Communist Resistance against the Nazi regime: between 1933 and 1945 much of his time was spent inside a succession of concentration camps and prisons.

In 1969 he became Secretary of the Central Leadership of the so-called Committee of Anti-fascist resistance fighters in East Germany, and from 1970 he was secretary of the international umbrella organisation, the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-Fascists (FIR). In 1982 he became chairman of the Finance Control Commission of the FIR in Vienna.

Wolfgang Bergold died on 14 August 1987.

Awards and honours Banner of Labor (1966) Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1973) Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1978) Patriotic Order of Merit Gold clasp (1983)

Publications (not necessarily a complete list) Die Verschärfung der Klassenwidersprüche in Frankreich. In: Einheit (1962), Vol 5, p 87–96. Vietnam schreitet von Sieg zu Sieg. In: Deutsche Außenpolitik (1965), Vol 11, p 1314–1321.