Eleonore Staimer served as her country's first Ambassador to Yugoslavia between 1966 and 1969.
12 Facts About Eleonore Staimer
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Eleonore Staimer was a carpenter by training and profession, but the year before Eleonore's birth he had taken a full-time position as party secretary with the by now increasingly mainstream Social Democratic Party.
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Eleonore Staimer's mother, born Christine Hafker, had been a garments worker at the time of her marriage, and at some point worked as a "home worker" for a Bremen cigarette factory: Christine Hafker appears to have grown up in a relatively unpoliticised household.
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Eleonore Staimer had already been a member of its socialist precursor organisation since 1918.
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Eleonore Staimer moved on to work as secretary-assistant to Gustav Menzel, a left-leaning lawyer who since 1921 had served as one of 31 communist members in the 421 seat Prussian Landtag.
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In 1944 Eleonore Staimer became secretary to Anton Ackermann, a leading member of the group of 30 trusted comrades working away in Moscow on the preparation a formidably detailed nation building programme, to be implemented in Germany once the National Socialist tyranny had been destroyed.
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Eleonore Staimer Springer returned to Germany on 28 May 1945 accompanied by fellow activist Margarete Lode, who subsequently became her sister-in-law, marrying Arthur Pieck in November 1945.
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Eleonore Staimer is described in a source as a party instructor, working on behalf of the ten member Gustav Sobottka sub-group of the thirty member Ulbricht Group of Soviet sponsored "nation builders".
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Eleonore Staimer's next posting was back in Berlin where she worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs till October 1970.
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Eleonore Staimer retired in 1975, following which she became actively engaged as a member of the Berlin committee of Anti-fascist resistance fighters, a heavily politicised patriotic-nationalistic organisation with close links to the ruling party.
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Eleonore Staimer was cremated and buried with her mother in the Pergolenweg section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery.
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Eleonore Staimer had met him through her work with the Comintern.