Günter Glende

Günter Glende
Head of the Department for the Management of Party Enterprises of the Central Committee
In office
12 February 1964  3 December 1989
Secretary
Deputy
  • Heinz Simon
Preceded byWalter Heibich
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1918-01-09)9 January 1918
Stolp, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Słupsk, Poland)
Died27 March 2004(2004-03-27) (aged 86)
Berlin, Germany
Political partySocialist Unity Party
(1946–1989)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Germany
(1946)
Spouse
(m. 1973; died 2004)
Alma mater
  • Deutsche Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft (DASR) „Walter Ulbricht“
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Party Functionary
  • Machinist
Awards

Günter Glende (9 January 1918 – 27 March 2004) was an East German party official. Between 1964 and 1989 he served as leader of the Central Committee's department for administering the Party Enterprises in succession to Walter Heibich. Glende himself became a member of the powerful party Central Committee in 1960, remaining a member (as was not unusual) till the ending of the one-party dictatorship in 1989/90.

He was the husband of Gisela Glende from 1973 till his death.