Gerhard Grüneberg

Gerhard Grüneberg
Gerhard Grüneberg
	Grüneberg in 1981
Secretary for Agriculture of the ; Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 1960 – 10 April 1981
General Secretary	Walter Ulbricht; Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Erich Mückenberger
Succeeded by	Werner Felfe
Secretary for State and Legal Affairs of the Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 6 February 1958 – 19 June 1971
First Secretary	Walter Ulbricht;
Preceded by	Walter Ulbricht
Succeeded by	Friedrich Ebert Jr.
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party; in Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder)
	In office; 1 August 1952 – February 1958
Second Secretary	Marianne Blankenhagen; Erich Heyl;
Preceded by	Willy Sägebrecht (as First Secretary of the SED in Brandenburg)
Succeeded by	Eduard Götzl
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Brandenburg-Stadt, Brandenburg-Land, Belzig, Rathenow
	In office; 3 December 1958 – 10 April 1981
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Günter Schabowski
Personal details
Born	Gerhard Grüneberg; 29 August 1921; Lehnin, Province of Brandenburg, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg, Germany)
Died	10 April 1981 (aged 59); East Berlin, East Germany
Resting place	Memorial of the Socialists, Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1981)
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Germany; (1946)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy;
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Bricklayer;
Awards	Iron Cross, 2nd class; Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx;
	Central institution membership 1966–1981: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1959–1966: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1959–1981: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1958–1959: Candidate member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1949–1952: Secretary for Cadre Affairs, Socialist Unity Party in Brandenburg ; 1948–1949: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Guben district ;

Gerhard Grüneberg (10 August 1921 – 10 April 1981) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. From the 1960s to the early 1980s, he was the powerful SED Agriculture Secretary, instituting various reforms to the GDR's collectivized agricultural sector.