Siegfried Lorenz (politician)

Siegfried Lorenz
Siegfried Lorenz
	Lorenz in 1986
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party; in Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
	In office; March 1976 – November 1989
Second Secretary	Rudi Scharrer; Lothar Weber;
Preceded by	Paul Roscher
Succeeded by	Norbert Kertscher
Head of the Youth Department of the Central Committee
	In office; 14 September 1966 – 24 March 1976
Secretary	Erich Honecker; Paul Verner;
Deputy	Gerhardt Naumann;
Preceded by	Gerhardt Naumann
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Herger
First Secretary of the Free German Youth; in Berlin
	In office; 1961–1965
Preceded by	Hans Modrow
Succeeded by	Lothar Witt
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
	In office; 14 November 1963 – 11 January 1990
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	26 November 1930; Annaberg, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic (now Annaberg-Buchholz, Saxony, Germany)
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Social Democratic Party; (1945–1964)
Alma mater	Leipzig University; Party Academy Karl Marx
Occupation	Politician; Civil Servant; Party Clerk;
Awards	Order of Karl Marx; Banner of Labor
	Central institution membership 1986–1989: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1985–1986: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1971–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1967–1971: Candidate member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1967–1976: Head,; Youth Commission at the Politburo ; 1958–1961: Second Secretary,; Free German Youth in Berlin ; 1958–1967: Member, East Berlin City Council ;

Siegfried Lorenz (born 26 November 1930) is a former senior party functionary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) in East Germany. He was a member of the Politbüro of The Party's Central Committee in Berlin and First Secretary of the party's Karl-Marx-Stadt regional leadership team. During his career held a number of positions with the country's FDJ (Free German Youth movement).

On 6 August 2004, fifteen years after the Wall came down, Lorenz, then aged 73, was one of two senior party officials found guilty by the Berlin regional court as accessories to murder. The case involved Michael Bittner, Lutz Schmidt and Chris Gueffroy, three citizens of the former German Democratic Republic who had been shot dead while trying to escape to West Berlin.