Friedrich Dickel

Friedrich Dickel
Dickel in 1983
Minister of the Interior
Head of the Volkspolizei
In office
15 November 1963 – 17 November 1989
Chairman of the
Council of Ministers
Deputy
  • Willi Seifert
  • Rudolf Riss
  • Lothar Ahrendt
Preceded byKarl Maron
Succeeded byLothar Ahrendt
Member of the Volkskammer
for Auerbach, Klingenthal, Oelsnitz, Plauen-Stadt, Plauen-Land
In office
2 July 1967 – 16 November 1989
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byHans-Ludwig Erlenbeck
Personal details
Born(1913-12-09)9 December 1913
Died23 October 1993(1993-10-23) (aged 79)
PartySocialist Unity Party (1946–1989)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Germany (1931–1946)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Civil Servant
  • Soldier
  • Founder
Central institution membership

Other offices held
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Friedrich Dickel (9 December 1913 – 23 October 1993) was a German politician, veteran of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and law enforcement administrator who served as the interior minister for nearly twenty-six years, the longest-serving individual to hold that post in East Germany.