Edwin Schwertner
Edwin Schwertner | |
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| Head of the Office of the Politburo | |
| In office June 1986 – 3 December 1989 | |
| General Secretary | |
| Preceded by | Gisela Glende |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
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| Born | 11 February 1932 Liberec, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 23 March 2016 (aged 84) |
| Political party | Socialist Unity Party (1949–1989) |
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Edwin Schwertner (11 February 1932 – 23 March 2016) was a German-Czech economist and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Schwertner served as the head of the powerful Office of the Politburo during the latter half of the 1980s.