Werner Felfe

Werner Felfe
Felfe in 1982
Secretary for Agriculture of the Central Committee Secretariat
In office 16 April 1981 – 7 September 1988
General Secretary	Erich Honecker
Preceded by	Gerhard Grüneberg
Succeeded by	Werner Krolikowski
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Halle
In office May 1971 – May 1981
Second Secretary	Dieter Itzerott Hans-Joachim Böhme
Preceded by	Horst Sindermann
Succeeded by	Hans-Joachim Böhme
Second Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Halle
In office 1968–1971
First Secretary	Horst Sindermann
Preceded by	Gerhard Frost
Succeeded by	Dieter Itzerott
Volkskammer Member of the Volkskammer for Pasewalk, Prenzlau, Strasburg, Templin, Ueckermünde In office 29 November 1971 – 7 September 1988 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by Beatrix Dreschel (1989) In office 19 November 1954 – 8 December 1958 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by multi-member district
Personal details
Born	Werner Felfe (1928-01-04)4 January 1928 Großröhrsdorf, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic
Died	7 September 1988(1988-09-07) (aged 60) East Berlin, East Germany
Resting place	Memorial of the Socialists, Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
Political party	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1988)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Germany (1945–1946)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy Dresden University of Technology
Occupation	Politician Party Functionary Industrial Clerk
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class Order of Karl Marx Hero of Labour
Central institution membership 1986–1988: Full member, Politburo of the Central Committee 1973–1986: Candidate member, Politburo of the Central Committee 1963–1988: Full member, Central Committee 1954–1963: Candidate member, Central Committee Other offices held 1981–1988: Member, State Council 1976–1988: Member, National Defence Council 1966–1968: Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Halle 1965–1966: Deputy Head, Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee 1954–1957: Second Secretary, Free German Youth 1950–1953: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Flöha district

Werner Felfe (4 January 1928 – 7 September 1988) 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 Halle and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In the 1980s, he was the powerful SED Agriculture Secretary, instituting various reforms to the GDR's collectivized agricultural sector.

Until his surprising death in September 1988, he was thought of as a potential successor to Erich Honecker.