Hans Albrecht (politician)

Hans Albrecht
Albrecht in 1989
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Suhl
In office 15 August 1968 – 2 November 1989
Second Secretary	Karl-Heinz Heiliger Walter Weiss Gerhard Koszycki
Preceded by	Otto Funke
Succeeded by	Peter Pechauf
Volkskammer Member of the Volkskammer for Bad Salzungen, Hildburghausen, Meiningen, Neuhaus am Rennweg, Sonneberg (Suhl-Stadt, Suhl-Land, Ilmenau, Schmalkalden; 1971–1986) In office 26 November 1971 – 16 November 1989 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by Rosel Neuhäuser
Personal details
Born	Hans Albrecht (1919-11-22)22 November 1919 Bochum, Province of Westphalia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Died	27 March 2008(2008-03-27) (aged 88) Berlin, Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989)
Other political affiliations	Social Democratic Party (1945–1946)
Alma mater	Party Academy Karl Marx Bergakademie Freiberg (Dipl.-Ing. oec.)
Occupation	Politician Party Functionary Locksmith
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class Order of Karl Marx
Central institution membership 1963–1989: Full member, Central Committee 1954–1963: Candidate member, Central Committee Other offices held 1972–1989: Member, National Defence Council 1965–1968: First Deputy Chairman, Workers' and Peasants' Inspection 1954–1958: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Stalinstadt 1952–1954: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Eberswalde 1951–1952: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Frankfurt (Oder)

Hans Albrecht (22 November 1919 – 27 March 2008) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Suhl and was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and the National Defence Council.

In the Berlin Wall shooting trials, he was sentenced to five years and one month in prison for manslaughter.