Anton Ackermann

Anton Ackermann
Anton Ackermann
	Portrait by Abraham Pisarek c. 1950
Minister for Foreign Affairs
	Acting; 15 January 1953 – 1 October 1953
Minister-President	Otto Grotewohl;
Preceded by	Georg Dertinger
Succeeded by	Lothar Bolz
Director of the; Institute for Economic Research
	In office; 16 August 1951 – 1 December 1952
Deputy	Richard Stahlmann
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Markus Wolf
Member of the Volkskammer
	In office; 18 March 1948 – 17 October 1954
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Party Executive Committee Central Secretariat responsibilities
1946–1949	Agitation
1946–1949	Culture
1946–1949	Propaganda
1946–1949	Sports
1946–1949	Public Education
Personal details
Born	Eugen Hanisch; 25 November 1905; Thalheim, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died	4 May 1973 (aged 67); East Berlin, East Germany
Resting place	Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
Party	KPD (1920–1946); SED (after 1946)
Spouse(s)	Elli Schmidt (m. 1932; div. 1949); Irmgard Kuske (m. 1949)
Children	2
Education	International Lenin School
Occupation	Politician
	Central institution membership 1949–1953: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1946–1954: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1935–1937: Candidate member,; KPD Politburo ; 1935–1946: Full member,; KPD Central Committee ; Other offices held 1960–1961: Deputy Chairman,; State Planning Commission ; 1953–1954: Deputy Minister,; Ministry for Culture ; 1953: Director,; Institute for Marxism-Leninism ; 1949–1953: State Secretary,; Ministry for Foreign Affairs ;

Anton Ackermann (born Eugen Hanisch; 25 November 1905 – 4 May 1973) was a German communist politician who was a leading functionary of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He served as the first director of the Institute for Economic Research, East Germany's foreign intelligence service, from 1951 to 1952, and briefly acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1953.