Erich Mückenberger

Erich Mückenberger
Erich Mückenberger
	Mückenberger in 1963
Chairman of the; Central Party Control Commission
	In office; 19 June 1971 – 8 November 1989
General Secretary	Erich Honecker; Egon Krenz;
Deputy	Heinz Juch; Werner Müller;
Preceded by	Hermann Matern
Succeeded by	Werner Eberlein
Leader of the Socialist Unity Party; in the Volkskammer
	In office; December 1979 – 11 November 1989
General Secretary	Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Friedrich Ebert Jr.
Succeeded by	Werner Jarowinsky
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Frankfurt
	In office; 2 August 1961 – 22 May 1971
Second Secretary	Rudolf Held; Rudolf Leppin; Heinz Vogel; Hans-Joachim Hertwig;
Preceded by	Eduard Götzl
Succeeded by	Hans-Joachim Hertwig
Secretary for Agriculture of the ; Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 26 July 1953 – 2 August 1961
First Secretary	Walter Ulbricht;
Preceded by	Paul Merker (1950)
Succeeded by	Gerhard Grüneberg
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Erfurt
	In office; 26 July 1952 – 26 July 1953
Second Secretary	Ludwig Einicke;
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Hans Kiefert
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Thuringia
	In office; 16 December 1949 – 26 July 1952
Second Secretary	Otto Funke;
Preceded by	Erich Kops (as Chairman)
Succeeded by	Position abolished
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Saxony
	In office; 4 December 1948 – 9 December 1949 Serving with Ernst Lohagen
Preceded by	Otto Buchwitz; Wilhelm Koenen
Succeeded by	Ernst Lohagen
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Schwerin-Stadt, Schwerin-Land, Gadebusch, Sternberg
	In office; 8 November 1950 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Manfred Voigt
Personal details
Born	8 June 1910; Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died	10 February 1998 (aged 87); Berlin, Germany
Party	KPD (1927–1946); SED (1946–1989); PDS (1989–1990)
Alma mater	Party Academy Karl Marx; Parteihochschule der KPdSU
Occupation	Politician; Civil Servant; Weaver; Locksmith;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit; Order of Karl Marx
	Central institution membership 1958–1989: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1950–1958: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1950–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1978–1989: President,; Society for German–Soviet Friendship ;

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Erich Mückenberger (8 June 1910 – 10 February 1998) was a German socialist politician. He began his political career in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) when the East German branches of SPD and the Communist Party of Germany merged after the Second World War. Mückenberger was one of the most high-ranking former Social Democrats in the German Democratic Republic and held several positions in the SED.