Hans-Joachim Böhme

Hans-Joachim Böhme
Hans-Joachim Böhme
	Böhme in 1986
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Halle
	In office; 4 May 1981 – 9 November 1989
Second Secretary	Walter Kitzing;
Preceded by	Werner Felfe
Succeeded by	Roland Claus
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Bezirk Halle
	In office; 16 June 1986 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by	Werner Felfe
Succeeded by	Eberhard Sandmann
Constituency	Merseburg, №1
	In office; 25 June 1981 – 16 June 1986
Preceded by	Harald Rost
Succeeded by	Margot Honecker
Constituency	Halle/Saale, Halle-Neustadt, №2
Personal details
Born	Hans-Joachim Böhme; 29 December 1929; Bernburg (Saale), Free State of Anhalt, Weimar Republic (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Died	4 September 2012 (aged 82); Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Party	SED-PDS; (1989–1990)
Other political; affiliations	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989); Social Democratic Party; (1945–1946)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy (Dipl.-Ges.-Wiss.); Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. phil.);
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Civil Servant;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx;
	Central institution membership 1986–1989: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1981–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1974–1981: Second Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Halle ; 1968–1974: Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Halle ;

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Hans-Joachim "Achim" Böhme (29 December 1929 – 4 September 2012) was an East German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the 1980s, he served as First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Halle, center of East Germany's large and important chemical industry, and eventually became a full member of the SED Politburo.

Described as "The Little King of Halle" in an obituary, Böhme was notorious for his particularly totalitarian leadership style and embezzlement of public funds. He was tried and convicted of complicity in manslaughter in the Berlin Wall shooting trials.