Gerhard Schürer

Gerhard Schürer
Gerhard Schürer
	Schürer in 1982
Chairman of the; State Planning Commission
	In office; 22 December 1965 – 11 January 1990
Chairman of the; Council of Ministers	Willi Stoph; Horst Sindermann; Willi Stoph; Hans Modrow;
First Deputy	See list Helmut Lilie; Heinz Klopfer; Hugo Meiser; Kurt Fichtner; Wolfgang Greß;
Preceded by	Erich Apel
Succeeded by	Karl Grünheid; (as Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers)
First Deputy Chairman of the; State Planning Commission
	In office; 14 November 1963 – 22 December 1965 Serving with Karl Grünheid
Chairman	Erich Apel;
Preceded by	Rudolf Müller
Succeeded by	Helmut Lilie
Head of the Planning and Finance Department of the Central Committee
	In office; 1960–1962
Secretary	Erich Apel;
Preceded by	Fritz Müller
Succeeded by	Siegfried Böhm
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Leipzig-Mitte, Leipzig-Südost, Leipzig-Süd; (Zwickau-Land, Zwickau-Stadt; 1967-1971)
	In office; 2 July 1967 – 11 January 1990
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Paul Gerhard Schürer; 14 April 1921; Auerbach, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic (now Zwickau–Auerbach, Germany)
Died	22 December 2010 (aged 89); Berlin, Germany
Party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	Party of Democratic Socialism (1989–1990); Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1948–1989)
Children	8
Alma mater	Landesparteischule Mecklenburg; Parteihochschule der KPdSU; Engineering School Mittweida
Occupation	Politician; Civil Servant; Flying Instructor; Locksmith;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit; Order of Karl Marx
	Central institution membership 1989: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1973–1989: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1963–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1967–1989: Deputy Chairman,; Council of Ministers ;

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Gerhard Schürer (14 April 1921 – 22 December 2010) was a leading politician in East Germany.

Between 1963 and 1989 he was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the country's ruling SED (party). He also served, between 1965 and 1989, as chairman of the State Planning Commission of East Germany's Council of Ministers.

It is one mark of his importance that during the 1980s Schürer lived with his family at House 7 in the Wandlitz residential estate. Wandlitz was the exclusive Berlin enclave where the top party officials lived. House 7 was a large house, with space to accommodate his (at this stage) second wife and seven children. A previous occupant had been Chairman Walter Ulbricht. After reunification, and as the German Democratic Republic receded into history, there were times when he felt able to recall his experiences with greater candour and clarity than others who had known the ruling establishment from the inside.