Klaus Sorgenicht

Klaus Sorgenicht
Klaus Sorgenicht
	Sorgenicht (center) in 1989
Head of the Department for State and Legal Affairs of the Central Committee
	In office; November 1954 – 22 November 1989
Secretary	Walter Ulbricht; Gerhard Grüneberg; Friedrich Ebert Jr.; Paul Verner; Egon Krenz; Wolfgang Herger;
Deputy	Waldemar Pilz; Günther Witteck; Günter Böhme;
Preceded by	Anton Plenikowski
Succeeded by	Günter Böhme
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Bützow, Güstrow, Lübz, Parchim
	In office; 3 December 1958 – 29 January 1990
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Klaus Hugo Walter Sorgenicht; 24 August 1923; Elberfeld, Rhine Province, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Wuppertal-Elberfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Died	22 October 1999 (aged 76); Berlin, Germany
Party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Germany; (1945–1946)
Alma mater	CPSU Higher Party School; Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft der DDR (Dr. rer. pol.);
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Civil Servant;
Awards	Banner of Labor; Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx;
	Other offices held 1963–1990: Member, State Council ; 1946–1949: District Administrator,; Güstrow district ; 1945–1946: Lord Mayor, Güstrow ;

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Klaus Sorgenicht (24 August 1923 – 22 October 1999) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Sorgenicht served as the longtime head of the powerful State and Legal Affairs Department at the Central Committee of the SED and was notorious for the ruthlessness with which he pursued opponents of the political system of the GDR.