Head of the Department for Security Affairs of the Central Committee
In office 15 March 1985 – 8 November 1989
Secretary
Egon Krenz
Deputy
Fritz Renckwitz
Peter Miethe
Preceded by
Herbert Scheibe
Succeeded by
Peter Miethe
Second Secretary of the Free German Youth
In office May 1971 – June 1976
First Secretary
Günther Jahn
Egon Krenz
Preceded by
Dieter Itzerott
Succeeded by
Erich Postler
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer for Görlitz-Stadt, Görlitz-Land, Zittau
In office 29 November 1971 – 5 April 1990
Preceded by
multi-member district
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Central Committee Secretariat responsibilities
1989
Security Affairs
1989
State and Legal Affairs
Personal details
Born
Wolfgang Herger
(1935-08-10) 10 August 1935 (age 88) Rudolstadt, Free State of Thuringia, Nazi Germany
Political party
Socialist Unity Party (1957–1989)
Alma mater
University of Jena (Dr. phil)
Occupation
Politician
Party Functionary
Academic
Awards
Patriotic Order of Merit
Central institution membership
1989: Full member, Politburo of the Central Committee
1976–1989: Full member, Central Committee
Other offices held
1986–1989: Member, National Defence Council
1976–1985: Head, Department for Youth of the Central Committee
Wolfgang Herger (born 10 August 1935) is a German former politician and high-ranking functionary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
A longtime associate of Egon Krenz, in the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime head of the powerful Department of Security Affairs at the Central Committee of the SED. During the Wende, he also briefly served in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.
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