Bundesarchiv Bild 183-19000-3828, Werner Eggerath

Werner Eggerath (16 March 1900, in Elberfeld – 16 June 1977, in

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

) was an East German author and

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

politician. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / ''Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands'') and its first secretary in Thuringia from 21 April 1946 to 1947, already having held that position in the

Communist Party of Germany The Communist Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, , KPD ) was a major political party in the Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West German ...

before its

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with the SPD, to create, in April 1946, the SED. After having been Minister of the Interior of Thuringia since May 1947, he became its Minister-President on 9 October 1947, which he stayed until 23 July 1952 when the state was abolished. Eggerath also served as Ambassador to Romania from 1954 to 1957 and as the

State Secretary for Church Affairs The State Secretary for Church Affairs (German: ''Staatssekretär für Kirchenfragen'') was the head of the Secretariat for Church Affairs in the former German Democratic Republic. The office was responsible for the relationship of the government t ...

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1900 births 1977 deaths People from Elberfeld People from the Rhine Province Communist Party of Germany politicians Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians Members of the Provisional Volkskammer Members of the 1st Volkskammer East German diplomats Ambassadors of East Germany to Romania Members of the Landtag of Thuringia Ministers-President of Thuringia German male writers International Lenin School alumni Communists in the German Resistance Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit (honor clasp) Recipients of the Banner of Labor Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany Recipients of the Medal of Merit of the GDR Politicians from Wuppertal {{Germany-SED-politician-stub