Horst Schumann (politician)

Horst Schumann
Schumann in 1961
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Leipzig
In office 21 November 1970 – 5 November 1989
Second Secretary	Jochen Hoffmann Helmut Hackenberg
Preceded by	Paul Fröhlich
Succeeded by	Roland Wötzel
First Secretary of the Free German Youth
In office May 1959 – May 1967
Second Secretary	Günther Jahn
Preceded by	Karl Namokel
Succeeded by	Günther Jahn
Volkskammer Member of the Volkskammer for Leipzig-Südwest, Leipzig-West, Leipzig-Nord, Leipzig-Nordost In office 14 November 1963 – 16 November 1989 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Horst Schumann (1924-02-06)6 February 1924 Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Germany)
Died	28 December 1993(1993-12-28) (aged 80) Berlin, Germany
Resting place	Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
Political party	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Germany (1945–1946)
Parent	Georg Schumann (father)
Alma mater	Party Academy Karl Marx CPSU Higher Party School
Occupation	Politician Party Functionary Piano Maker
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class Order of Karl Marx Hero of Labour
Central institution membership 1959–1989: Full member, Central Committee 1958–1959: Candidate member, Central Committee Other offices held 1960–1971: Member, State Council 1969–1970: Second Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Leipzig 1953: First Secretary, Free German Youth in Bezirk Leipzig 1950–1953: First Secretary, Free German Youth in Saxony 1947–1948: First Secretary, Free German Youth in Leipzig

Horst Schumann (6 February 1924 – 28 December 1993) was a German politician and functionary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime First Secretary of the FDJ from 1959 to 1967 and of the SED in Bezirk Leipzig from 1970 to 1989.