Werner Krolikowski
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Werner Krolikowski (12 March 1928 – 27 November 2016) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Quick Facts Secretary for Agriculture of the Central Committee Secretariat, General Secretary ...
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Secretary for Agriculture of the Central Committee Secretariat | |||||||||||||
In office 4 November 1988 – 8 November 1989 | |||||||||||||
General Secretary | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Werner Felfe | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Johannes Chemnitzer | ||||||||||||
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |||||||||||||
In office 1 November 1976 – 4 November 1988 | |||||||||||||
Chairman | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Günter Mittag | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Günther Kleiber | ||||||||||||
Secretary for the Economy of the Central Committee Secretariat | |||||||||||||
In office 2 October 1973 – 22 May 1976 | |||||||||||||
General Secretary | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Günter Mittag | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Günter Mittag | ||||||||||||
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Dresden | |||||||||||||
In office May 1960 – October 1973 | |||||||||||||
Second Secretary |
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Preceded by | Fritz Reuter | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Hans Modrow | ||||||||||||
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Born | Werner Krolikowski (1928-03-12)12 March 1928 Oels, Province of Lower Silesia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Oleśnica, Poland) | ||||||||||||
Died | 27 November 2016(2016-11-27) (aged 88) | ||||||||||||
Political party | Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989) | ||||||||||||
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In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Dresden and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In the 1970s and in the late 1980s, he was a member of the Central Committee Secretariat, as powerful Economy and Agriculture Secretary respectively. Krolikowski, alongside Willi Stoph and Erich Mielke, was regarded as belonging to the pro-Moscow faction of the Politburo.