Werner Krolikowski

Werner Krolikowski
Werner Krolikowski
	Krolikowski in 1985
Secretary for Agriculture of the ; Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 4 November 1988 – 8 November 1989
General Secretary	Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Werner Felfe
Succeeded by	Johannes Chemnitzer
First Deputy Chairman of the; Council of Ministers
	In office; 1 November 1976 – 4 November 1988 Serving with Alfred Neumann
Chairman	Willi Stoph;
Preceded by	Günter Mittag
Succeeded by	Günther Kleiber
Secretary for the Economy of the; Central Committee Secretariat
	In office; 2 October 1973 – 22 May 1976
General Secretary	Erich Honecker;
Preceded by	Günter Mittag
Succeeded by	Günter Mittag
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Dresden
	In office; May 1960 – 3 October 1973
Second Secretary	Werner Eidner; Lothar Stammnitz;
Preceded by	Fritz Reuter
Succeeded by	Hans Modrow
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Brandenburg-Stadt, Brandenburg-Land, Belzig, Rathenow; (Magdeburg; 1963-1986)
	In office; 14 November 1963 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Gudrun Spelly
Personal details
Born	Werner Krolikowski; 12 March 1928; Oels, Province of Lower Silesia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Oleśnica, Poland)
Died	27 November 2016 (aged 88)
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989)
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Civil Servant;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx;
	Central institution membership 1971–1989: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1963–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1988–1989: Member, State Council ; 1960: Second Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Rostock ; 1958–1960: Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Rostock ; 1953–1958: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Greifswald ;

Werner Krolikowski (12 March 1928 – 27 November 2016) 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 Dresden and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In the 1970s and in the late 1980s, he was a member of the Central Committee Secretariat, as powerful Economy and Agriculture Secretary respectively. Krolikowski, alongside Willi Stoph and Erich Mielke, was regarded as belonging to the pro-Moscow faction of the Politburo.