Georg Ewald

Georg Ewald
Georg Ewald
	Ewald (right) in 1972
Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food
	In office; 9 February 1963 – 14 September 1973
Chairman of the; Council of Ministers	Otto Grotewohl; Willi Stoph;
Preceded by	Karl-Heinz Bartsch
Succeeded by	Heinz Kuhrig
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party; in Bezirk Neubrandenburg
	In office; October 1960 – 16 February 1963
Second Secretary	Hans Gerlach;
Preceded by	Max Steffen
Succeeded by	Johannes Chemnitzer
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
	In office; 14 November 1963 – 14 September 1973
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Guido Thoms
Personal details
Born	Georg Ewald; 30 October 1926; Buchholz, Province of Pomerania, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Gremersdorf-Buchholz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
Died	14 September 1973 (aged 46); near Gotha, Bezirk Erfurt, East Germany
Resting place	Memorial of the Socialists, Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1973)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy;
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Farmworker;
Awards	Medal of Merit of the GDR; Patriotic Order of Merit, 2nd class; Banner of Labor;
	Central institution membership 1963–1973: Candidate member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1963–1973: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1955–1960: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Kreis Rügen ; 1954–1955: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Kreis Bad Doberan ; 1949–1950: Mayor, Buchholz ;

Georg Ewald (30 October 1926 – 14 September 1973) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, he briefly served as the First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Neubrandenburg and, most notably, as the longtime GDR Agriculture Minister and as a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

Ewald died in a car accident in 1973.

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