Gunter Rettner | |
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Head of the West Department of the Central Committee | |
In office 28 October 1985 – 3 December 1989 | |
Secretary | |
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Preceded by | Herbert Häber |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
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Born | Gunter Rettner 28 January 1942 Zeitz, Province of Saxony, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) |
Died | 11 December 1998 Finowfurt, Brandenburg, Germany | (aged 56)
Political party | Socialist Unity Party (1963–1989) |
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Central institution membership
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Gunter Rettner (28 January 1942 – 11 December 1998) was a German politician and functionary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
In the German Democratic Republic, during the 1980s, a period of German-German rapprochement, he served as head of the powerful Department for International Politics and Economics (previously known as West Department) of the SED Central Committee. In this role, he held contacts with many West German politicians.