Werner Walde

Werner Walde
Werner Walde
	Walde in 1984
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Cottbus
	In office; 1 June 1969 – 9 November 1989
Second Secretary	Hans Wetzel; Albrecht Schauerhammer;
Preceded by	Albert Stief
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Thiel
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Bezirk Cottbus
	In office; 29 October 1976 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by	Herbert Warnke
Succeeded by	Karin Winkel
Constituency	Hoyerswerda, Senftenberg Weißwasser
	In office; 29 November 1971 – 29 October 1976
Preceded by	Albert Stief
Succeeded by	Helga Labs
Constituency	Bad Liebenwerda, Finsterwalde, Herzberg, Jessen, Luckau, Lübben
Personal details
Born	Werner Walde; 12 February 1926; Döbeln, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic
Died	26 June 2010 (aged 84); Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany
Political party	SED-PDS; (1989–1990)
Other political; affiliations	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989); Social Democratic Party; (1946)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy (Dipl.-Ges.-Wiss.); Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin (Dipl.-Ök.);
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Teacher;
Awards	Verdienstmedaille der DDR; Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Hero of Labour; Order of Karl Marx; Kampforden „Für Verdienste um Volk und Vaterland“; Distinguished Service Medal of the National People's Army;
	Central institution membership 1976–1989: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1971–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1966–1969: Second Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Cottbus ; 1961–1964: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Senftenberg district ;

Werner Walde (12 February 1926 – 26 June 2010) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he served as First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Cottbus, the GDR's coal and energy Bezirk, and eventually became a candidate member of the SED Politburo.