Karl Mewis | |||||||||||||
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Chairman of the State Planning Commission | |||||||||||||
In office 6 July 1961 – 12 January 1963 | |||||||||||||
Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |||||||||||||
First Deputy |
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Preceded by | Bruno Leuschner | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Erich Apel | ||||||||||||
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Rostock | |||||||||||||
In office 1 August 1952 – 21 July 1961 | |||||||||||||
Second Secretary |
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Preceded by | himself (as First Secretary of the SED in Mecklenburg) | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Harry Tisch | ||||||||||||
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Born | Karl Mewis 22 November 1907 Hann. Münden, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Lower Saxony, Germany) | ||||||||||||
Died | 16 June 1987 East Berlin, East Germany | (aged 79)||||||||||||
Political party | Socialist Unity Party (1946–1987) | ||||||||||||
Other political affiliations | Communist Party of Germany (1924–1946) | ||||||||||||
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Karl Mewis (22 November 1907 – 16 June 1987) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism, diplomat, 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 Mecklenburg, later Bezirk Rostock and was a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. Mewis also briefly served as Chairman of the State Planning Commission before having to step down due to the supply crisis in the GDR.