Hans Albrecht (politician)

Hans Albrecht
Hans Albrecht
	Albrecht in 1989
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Suhl
	In office; 15 August 1968 – 2 November 1989
Second Secretary	Karl-Heinz Heiliger; Walter Weiss; Gerhard Koszycki;
Preceded by	Otto Funke
Succeeded by	Peter Pechauf
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Bezirk Suhl
	In office; 16 June 1986 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by	Otto Funke
Succeeded by	Rosel Neuhäuser
Constituency	Bad Salzungen, Hildburghausen, Meiningen, Neuhaus am Rennweg, Sonneberg, №1
	In office; 26 November 1971 – 16 June 1986
Preceded by	Herbert Recknagel
Succeeded by	Otto Funke
Constituency	Suhl-Stadt, Suhl-Land, Ilmenau, Schmalkalden, №2
Personal details
Born	Hans Albrecht; 22 November 1919; Bochum, Province of Westphalia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Died	27 March 2008 (aged 88); Berlin, Germany
Party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Social Democratic Party; (1945–1946)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy; Bergakademie Freiberg (Dipl.-Ing. oec.);
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Locksmith;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx;
	Central institution membership 1963–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1954–1963: Candidate member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1972–1989: Member,; National Defence Council ; 1965–1968: First Deputy Chairman,; Workers' and Peasants' Inspection ; 1960–1963: Chairman,; Council of Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) ; 1958–1960: Chairman,; Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) BWR ; 1954–1958: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Stalinstadt ; 1952–1954: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Eberswalde ; 1951–1952: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Frankfurt (Oder) ;

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Hans Albrecht (22 November 1919 – 27 March 2008) was an East German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Albrecht served as the First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Suhl for over twenty-one years, becoming known for his particularly authoritarian leadership style. In the Berlin Wall shooting trials, he was sentenced to five years and one month in prison for manslaughter.