Gerhard Grüneberg

Gerhard Grüneberg (10 August 1921 – 10 April 1981) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Gerhard Grüneberg
Grüneberg in 1981
Secretary for Agriculture of the
Central Committee Secretariat
In office
1960  10 April 1981
General Secretary
Preceded byErich Mückenberger
Succeeded byWerner Felfe
Secretary for State and Legal Affairs of the Central Committee Secretariat
In office
February 1958  19 June 1971
First Secretary
  • Walter Ulbricht
Preceded byWalter Ulbricht
Succeeded byFriedrich Ebert Jr.
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
in Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder)
In office
August 1952  February 1958
Second Secretary
  • Marianne Blankenhagen
  • Erich Heyl
Preceded byWilly Sägebrecht (as First Secretary of the SED in Brandenburg)
Succeeded byEduard Götzl
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
In office
8 December 1958  10 April 1981
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bymulti-member district
Personal details
Born
Gerhard Grüneberg

(1921-08-29)29 August 1921
Lehnin, Province of Brandenburg, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg, Germany)
Died10 April 1981(1981-04-10) (aged 59)
East Berlin, East Germany
Resting placeMemorial of the Socialists, Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
Political partySocialist Unity Party
(1946–1981)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Germany
(1946)
Alma mater
  • "Karl Marx" Party Academy
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Party Functionary
  • Bricklayer
Awards
  • Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class
  • Order of Karl Marx
Central institution membership
  • 1966–1981: Full member,
    Politburo of the Central Committee
  • 1959–1966: Candidate member,
    Politburo of the Central Committee
  • 1959–1981: Full member,
    Central Committee
  • 1958–1959: Candidate member,
    Central Committee

Other offices held
  • 1949–1952: Secretary for Cadre Affairs, Socialist Unity Party in Brandenburg
  • 1948–1949: First Secretary,
    Socialist Unity Party in Guben district

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. From the 1960s to the early 1980s, he was the powerful SED Agriculture Secretary, instituting various reforms to the GDR's collectivized agricultural sector.

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