Werner Krolikowski

Werner Krolikowski
Krolikowski in 1985
Secretary for Agriculture of the Central Committee Secretariat
In office 4 November 1988 – 8 November 1989
General Secretary	Erich Honecker
Preceded by	Werner Felfe
Succeeded by	Johannes Chemnitzer
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office 1 November 1976 – 4 November 1988 Serving with Alfred Neumann
Chairman	Willi Stoph
Preceded by	Günter Mittag
Succeeded by	Günther Kleiber
Secretary for the Economy of the Central Committee Secretariat
In office 2 October 1973 – 22 May 1976
General Secretary	Erich Honecker
Preceded by	Günter Mittag
Succeeded by	Günter Mittag
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Dresden
In office May 1960 – 3 October 1973
Second Secretary	Werner Eidner Lothar Stammnitz
Preceded by	Fritz Reuter
Succeeded by	Hans Modrow
Volkskammer Member of the Volkskammer for Brandenburg-Stadt, Brandenburg-Land, Belzig, Rathenow (Magdeburg; 1963-1986) In office 14 November 1963 – 16 November 1989 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by Gudrun Spelly
Personal details
Born	Werner Krolikowski (1928-03-12)12 March 1928 Oels, Province of Lower Silesia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Oleśnica, Poland)
Died	27 November 2016(2016-11-27) (aged 88)[citation needed]
Political party	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989)
Occupation	Politician Party Functionary Civil Servant
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class Order of Karl Marx
Central institution membership 1971–1989: Full member, Politburo of the Central Committee 1963–1989: Full member, Central Committee Other offices held 1988–1989: Member, State Council 1960: Second Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Rostock 1958–1960: Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Rostock 1953–1958: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Greifswald

Werner Krolikowski (12 March 1928 – 27 November 2016^{[citation needed]}) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Dresden and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In the 1970s and in the late 1980s, he was a member of the Central Committee Secretariat, as powerful Economy and Agriculture Secretary respectively. Krolikowski, alongside Willi Stoph and Erich Mielke, was regarded as belonging to the pro-Moscow faction of the Politburo.