Siegfried Wagner (politician)

For Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930), the musician son of the composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883), see Siegfried Wagner.
Siegfried Wagner
Born5 March 1925
Hildesheim (Hannover), Prussia, Germany
Died2 August 2001
Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)Party official
Head of the Party Central Committee Arts and Culture Committee
Junior Minister for culture
President of the "Entertainment Arts Committee"
Political partySED
SpouseBrunhilde ______ (1926/27 – 2009)

Siegfried Wagner (3 March 1925 – 2 August 2001) was an East German party official who served as chairman of the Arts and Culture Committee of the Party Central Committee. In view of the highly centralised nature of the Leninist political power structure under which the country was administered, that position may have been of greater importance than his office as a government minister. In any event, reflecting the importance attached to culture and the arts by the government, he was a relatively high-profile political member of the East German arts establishment through the 1970s and 1980s. Starting during the 1970s he was also listed in the files of the Ministry for State Security as an "Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter" (IM), providing secret reports on colleagues and others of interest to the country's vast "Stasi" homeland security department under his code name, "IM Meister".[1]

  1. ^ Bernd-Rainer Barth. "Wagner, Siegfried: geb. 3.3.1925, gest. 2.8.2002: Leiter der Abteilung Kultur des ZK der SED, Vorsitzender des Staatlichen Komitees für Unterhaltungskunst". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 1 March 2022.