GDR Diplomatic Passport Schalck-Golodkowski

In 2017, parts of the estate of the former GDR currency trader Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski’s estate were auctioned off in Hamburg for around…

EUR 70,000. We are very pleased with the balance sheet,”said the auction house. The starting price for the approximately 40 items was a sum of about 30,000 euros.

Among other things, this included numerous medals and awards from the SED business functionary. A Karl-Marx-Order, the highest award of the GDR, reached 8000 Euro the highest auction value. An agent’s pair of glasses and the diplomatic passport of Schalck-Golodkowski were hammered for 3300 euros. In addition to hall providers and live bidders on the Internet, there were also a number of telephone bidders from Germany, the USA, and Russia. GDR Diplomatic Passport Schalck-Golodkowski

Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski is considered one of the most dazzling GDR personalities. The former colonel of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) had died in June 2015 at the age of 82. In 1983, he had negotiated a billion-dollar loan in D-Mark for the GDR with the then CSU leader Franz Josef Strauss. The business saved the GDR from state bankruptcy.

Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski (3 July 1932 – 21 June 2015) was a politician and trader in the German Democratic Republic. He was director of the main department (‘Hauptverwaltungsleiter’) in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and German Domestic Trade (1956–62), the Deputy Minister for External Trade (1967–75), and head of the GDR’s Kommerzielle Koordinierung (KoKo, 1966–86).

GDR Diplomatic Passport Schalck-Golodkowski

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