Bernhard Quandt

Bernhard Quandt
Bernhard Quandt
	Quandt in 1958
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party; in Bezirk Schwerin
	In office; 1 August 1952 – 28 January 1974
Second Secretary	Heinz Bendig; Heinrich Mosler; Johann Raskop; Heinz Ziegner;
Preceded by	Karl Mewis (as First Secretary of the SED in Mecklenburg)
Succeeded by	Heinz Ziegner
Minister-President of Mecklenburg
	In office; 24 August 1951 – 23 July 1952
Preceded by	Kurt Bürger
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister-President
Mecklenburg Cabinet
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
	In office; 10 February 1948 – 23 July 1952
Minister-President	Wilhelm Höcker; Kurt Bürger; himself;
Preceded by	Otto Möller
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Schwerin-Stadt, Schwerin-Land, Gadebusch, Sternberg
	In office; 3 December 1958 – 5 April 1990
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	14 April 1903; Rostock, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire (now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
Died	2 August 1999 (aged 96); Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Political party	Party of Democratic Socialism; (1989–1999)
Other political; affiliations	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989); Communist Party of Germany; (1923–1946); Social Democratic Party; (1920–1923)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy;
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Machinist;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Banner of Labor; Order of Karl Marx; Star of Peoples' Friendship;
	Central institution membership 1958–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1973–1989: Member, State Council ; 1946–1948: Member,; Landtag of Mecklenburg ; 1946–1948: Second Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Mecklenburg ; 1945–1946: District Administrator,; Güstrow district ;

Bernhard Quandt (14 April 1903 – 2 August 1999) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Quandt became politically active in the waning years of the Weimar Republic for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), spending several years in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps during Nazi rule.

He moved to the Soviet occupation zone after the war, where he became a SED functionary. He served as the last Minister-President of Mecklenburg before its dissolution and thereafter as the longtime First Secretary of the Bezirk Schwerin SED before being forced into retirement in 1974.