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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Gottfried Lessing</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing</div><br>14 December 1914<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Petrograd" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrograd">Petrograd</a>, <a href="Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">11 April 1979 (aged 64)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="Kampala" title="Kampala">Kampala</a>, <a href="Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">German</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="Lawyer" title="Lawyer">Lawyer</a><br><a href="Diplomat" title="Diplomat">Diplomat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">SED</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">
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<p><b>Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing</b> (14 December 1914 – 11 April 1979) was a German lawyer, political activist, and diplomat.
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<p>Lessing was born in <a href="Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, Russia to Gottfried Lessing (1877 - 1950) and Tatjana Lessing (née von Schwanebach) (1878 - 1960). He fled Germany in 1938 (one of his grandfathers was Jewish, and therefore he was considered a <a href="Mischling" title="Mischling">mischling</a> under the <a href="Nuremberg_Laws" title="Nuremberg Laws">Nuremberg Laws</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> First he sought refuge in the UK, and later he moved to <a href="Harare" title="Harare">Salisbury</a>, <a href="Southern_Rhodesia" title="Southern Rhodesia">Southern Rhodesia</a> (now <a href="Harare" title="Harare">Harare</a>, <a href="Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a>). He worked as a lawyer in Salisbury from 1941 to 1946 and took part in the founding of the small <a href="Southern_Rhodesia_Communist_Party" title="Southern Rhodesia Communist Party">Southern Rhodesia Communist Party</a>, becoming a leading member.<sup id="cite_ref-hoff_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hoff-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sci_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sci-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There he became involved with <a href="Doris_Lessing" title="Doris Lessing">Doris Lessing</a> (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007).<sup id="cite_ref-sued_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sued-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were married from 1943 to 1949 and had one son.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Doris Lessing's memoir, <i><a href="Under_My_Skin_(autobiography)" title="Under My Skin (autobiography)">Under My Skin</a></i>, includes a short biography of Gottfried Lessing and a detailed description of their life together in Harare.
</p><p>In 1949 he returned to the UK, where he worked for the <a href="Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist Party of Great Britain</a>. In 1950 he settled in <a href="East_Berlin" title="East Berlin">East Berlin</a>, and in 1951 he became a member of the <a href="Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">Socialist Unity Party of Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hoff_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hoff-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>From 1952 to 1957 he was the president of the Chamber of Foreign Trade. Then, in 1959–1960, he led East Germany's trade representation in Indonesia. In 1961 he was sent to <a href="Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>. From 1962 to 1965 he was back in East Germany, working as the head of the Africa section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1965 and 1969, Lessing served as East Germany's Consul General in Tanzania. He again returned to East Germany, and worked in the Planning Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-hoff_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hoff-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Lessing went on to serve as the East German Ambassador to Uganda. He and his third wife were killed during the <a href="Fall_of_Kampala" title="Fall of Kampala">Fall of Kampala</a> in 1979, as <a href="Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a> and its Ugandan rebel allies occupied Uganda's capital and overthrew dictator <a href="Idi_Amin" title="Idi Amin">Idi Amin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sci_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sci-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lessing and his wife attempted to escape the city amid the fighting at 04:00 on 11 April, but as they drove by a golf course <a href="Uganda_National_Liberation_Front" title="Uganda National Liberation Front">UNLF</a> insurgents fired two rocket-propelled grenades at Lessing's and a following car, destroying both and killing the four occupants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAvirganHoney1983144_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAvirganHoney1983144-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Lessing was the maternal uncle of politician <a href="Gregor_Gysi" title="Gregor Gysi">Gregor Gysi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sued_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sued-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFLiukkonen" class="citation web cs1">Liukkonen, Petri. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080608133357/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dlessing.htm">"Doris Lessing"</a>. <i>Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi)</i>. Finland: <a href="Kuusankoski" title="Kuusankoski">Kuusankoski</a> Public Library. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dlessing.htm">the original</a> on 8 June 2008.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFAvirganHoney1983" class="citation book cs1">Avirgan, Tony; Honey, Martha (1983). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OM9AAAAAYAAJ"><i>War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin</i></a>. Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-9976-1-0056-3</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFLessing1995" class="citation book cs1">Lessing, Doris May (1995). <i>Under my skin&nbsp;: Volume One of my Autobiography, to 1949</i>. London: Flamingo. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-00-654825-3</bdi>. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/34466346">34466346</a>.</cite></li></ul>
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