Wolfgang Herger

Wolfgang Herger
Wolfgang Herger
	Herger in 1976
Head of the Department for Security Affairs of the Central Committee
	In office; 15 March 1985 – 8 November 1989
Secretary	Egon Krenz;
Deputy	Fritz Renckwitz; Peter Miethe;
Preceded by	Herbert Scheibe
Succeeded by	Peter Miethe
Second Secretary of the; Free German Youth
	In office; May 1971 – June 1976
First Secretary	Günther Jahn; Egon Krenz;
Preceded by	Dieter Itzerott
Succeeded by	Erich Postler
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Görlitz-Stadt, Görlitz-Land, Zittau
	In office; 29 November 1971 – 5 April 1990
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Central Committee Secretariat responsibilities
1989	Security Affairs
1989	State and Legal Affairs
Personal details
Born	Wolfgang Herger; 10 August 1935 (age 88); Rudolstadt, Free State of Thuringia, Nazi Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1957–1989)
Alma mater	University of Jena (Dr. phil)
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Academic;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit
	Central institution membership 1989: Full member,; Politburo of the Central Committee ; 1976–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1986–1989: Member,; National Defence Council ; 1976–1985: Head, Department for Youth of the Central Committee ;

Wolfgang Herger (born 10 August 1935) is a German former politician and high-ranking functionary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

A longtime associate of Egon Krenz, in the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime head of the powerful Department of Security Affairs at the Central Committee of the SED. During the Wende, he also briefly served in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.