Gerhard Grüneberg
German politician (1919–2002) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerhard Grüneberg (10 August 1921 – 10 April 1981) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
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Secretary for Agriculture of the Central Committee Secretariat | |||||||||||||
In office 1960 – 10 April 1981 | |||||||||||||
General Secretary | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Erich Mückenberger | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Werner Felfe | ||||||||||||
Secretary for State and Legal Affairs of the Central Committee Secretariat | |||||||||||||
In office February 1958 – 19 June 1971 | |||||||||||||
First Secretary |
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Preceded by | Walter Ulbricht | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Friedrich Ebert Jr. | ||||||||||||
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) | |||||||||||||
In office August 1952 – February 1958 | |||||||||||||
Second Secretary |
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Preceded by | Willy Sägebrecht (as First Secretary of the SED in Brandenburg) | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Eduard Götzl | ||||||||||||
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Born | Gerhard Grüneberg (1921-08-29)29 August 1921 Lehnin, Province of Brandenburg, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg, Germany) | ||||||||||||
Died | 10 April 1981(1981-04-10) (aged 59) East Berlin, East Germany | ||||||||||||
Resting place | Memorial of the Socialists, Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery | ||||||||||||
Political party | Socialist Unity Party (1946–1981) | ||||||||||||
Other political affiliations | Communist Party of Germany (1946) | ||||||||||||
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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.