Bruno Lietz

Bruno Lietz
Bruno Lietz
	Lietz (center) in 1983
Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food
	In office; 3 December 1982 – 18 November 1989
Chairman of the; Council of Ministers	Willi Stoph;
Preceded by	Heinz Kuhrig
Succeeded by	Hans Watzek
Head of the Agriculture Department of the Central Committee
	In office; 19 November 1981 – 25 November 1982
Secretary	Werner Felfe;
Deputy	Heinz Besser; Heinz Drescher;
Preceded by	Bruno Kiesler
Succeeded by	Helmut Semmelmann
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Artem, Nebra, Querfurt, Saalkreis
	In office; 16 June 1986 – 5 April 1990
Preceded by	Heinz Kuhrig
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Bruno Lietz; 22 November 1925; Wormstedt, State of Thuringia, Weimar Republic (now Bad Sulza, Thuringia, Germany)
Died	11 May 2005 (aged 79); Berlin, Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1949–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Nazi Party; (1943–1945)
Alma mater	Institut für Agrarökonomie (Dipl. agr. oec.);
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Civil Servant; Farmworker;
Awards	Banner of Labor; Order of Karl Marx;
	Central institution membership 1982–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1963–1982: Candidate member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1972–1981: Deputy Chairman,; State Planning Commission ; 1961–1972: Secretary for Agriculture,; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Rostock ;

Bruno Lietz (22 November 1925 – 11 May 2005) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

One of a few former Nazis to have a political career in East Germany, Lietz rose to become an influential agriculture policymaker in the 1980s, briefly serving as head of the powerful Agriculture Department of the SED Central Committee and later Agriculture Minister before having to step down during the Peaceful Revolution.