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
Günter Böhme
Preceded by
Anton Plenikowski
Succeeded by
Günter Böhme
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer for Bützow, Güstrow, Lübz, Parchim
In office 8 December 1958 – 29 January 1990
Preceded by
multi-member district
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Klaus Hugo Walter Sorgenicht
(1923-08-24)24 August 1923 Elberfeld, Rhine Province, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Wuppertal-Elberfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Died
22 October 1999(1999-10-22) (aged 76) Berlin, Germany
Political 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
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.
KlausSorgenicht (24 August 1923 – 22 October 1999) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). Sorgenicht served...
(FDGB), Karl Rieke (SED), Hans Rodenberg (SED), Horst Schumann (FDJ), KlausSorgenicht (SED), Christian Steinmüller (NDPD), Willi Stoph (SED), Paul Strauß...
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Berlin the Party Central Committee had endorsed the proposal from KlausSorgenicht, head of the committee's "National and Legal Affairs Department", that...
York – Wien – London – Lissabon – Eutin. J. Sorgenicht, self published, Essen 1997; ISBN 3-9800145-3-3 Klaus Ulrich Spiegel: Faszination in Vielfalt – Walburga...
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