Heinz Vietze

Heinz Vietze
Chairman of the
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
In office
18 November 2006 – 1 December 2012
Deputy
  • Claudia Gohde
  • Michael Brie
Preceded byReinhard Mocek
Succeeded byDagmar Enkelmann
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
in Bezirk Potsdam
In office
15 November 1989 – February 1990
Second Secretary
  • Ulrich Schlaak
Preceded byGünther Jahn
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the
Landtag of Brandenburg
In office
26 October 1990 – 21 October 2009
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded bymulti-member district
Personal details
Born
Heinz Vietze

(1947-09-19) 19 September 1947 (age 77)
Zeitz, State of Saxony-Anhalt, Soviet occupation zone, Allied-occupied Germany (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Political partyThe Left
(2007–)
Other political
affiliations		Party of Democratic Socialism
(1989–2007)
Socialist Unity Party
(1966–1989)
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Party Functionary
  • Machinist
Central institution membership
  • 1990–1991: Member,
    PDS Party Executive
Other offices held

Heinz Vietze (born 19 September 1947) is a former German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and its successors, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and The Left.

A local functionary of the SED in the 1980s, Vietze rose to become the last First Secretary of the Bezirk Potsdam SED during the Peaceful Revolution.

He remained an influential politician of the PDS even after German reunification, being elected to the Landtag of Brandenburg, where he was the longtime whip of his party, and serving as key player of the Brandenburg PDS. At the same time, Vietze stirred controversy especially due to his Stasi collaboration.

Vietze retired from active politics in 2007, being elected chairman of the PDS's Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, a position he left in 2012.