Hans Albrecht (politician)

Hans Albrecht
Albrecht in 1989
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
in Bezirk Suhl
In office
15 August 1968 – 2 November 1989
Second Secretary
  • Karl-Heinz Heiliger
  • Walter Weiss
  • Gerhard Koszycki
Preceded byOtto Funke
Succeeded byPeter Pechauf
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
for Bad Salzungen, Hildburghausen, Meiningen, Neuhaus am Rennweg, Sonneberg
(Suhl-Stadt, Suhl-Land, Ilmenau, Schmalkalden; 1971–1986)
In office
26 November 1971 – 16 November 1989
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byRosel Neuhäuser
Personal details
Born
Hans Albrecht

(1919-11-22)22 November 1919
Bochum, Province of Westphalia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Died27 March 2008(2008-03-27) (aged 88)
Berlin, Germany
Political partySocialist Unity Party
(1946–1989)
Other political
affiliations
Social Democratic Party
(1945–1946)
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Party Functionary
  • Locksmith
Awards
Central institution membership

Other offices held

Hans Albrecht (22 November 1919 – 27 March 2008) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Suhl and was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and the National Defence Council.

In the Berlin Wall shooting trials, he was sentenced to five years and one month in prison for manslaughter.