Horst Sindermann
| Horst Sindermann | |
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| President of the Volkskammer | |
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In office 29 October 1976 – 13 November 1989 |
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| President | Erich Honecker |
| Preceded by | Gerald Götting |
| Succeeded by | Günther Maleuda |
| 24th Prime Minister of East Germany | |
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In office 3 October 1973 – 29 October 1976 |
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| President | Willi Stoph |
| Preceded by | Willi Stoph |
| Succeeded by | Willi Stoph |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 September 1915 Dresden, German Empire |
| Died | 20 April 1990 (aged 74) Berlin, East Germany |
| Political party |
KPD (1929–1946) SED (1946–1989) |
| Profession | Politician |
Horst Sindermann (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔʁst ˈzɪndɐman]; 5 September 1915 – 20 April 1990) was a Communist German politician and one of the leaders of East Germany.
Sindermann was born in Dresden as the son of the Saxon Social Democratic politician Karl Sindermann. His older brother, Kurt Sindermann, also entered politics as a member of the Communist Party and sat on the Saxon state parliament from 1929 to 1933.
Horst Sindermann joined the Communist Youth Federation (KJVD) in 1929 and in 1932 became a local functionary in Dresden. The group was banned by the Nazi regime and in June 1933, Sindermann was arrested and condemned to eight months of imprisonment for illegal political activities. In September 1934, he became political director of the KJVD's Dresden branch. In March 1935, he again was arrested for attempted high treason, tortured and put in solitary confinement for six years at Waldheim jail. In 1941, he was transferred to "protective custody" to several concentration camps, first at Sachsenhausen, then at Mauthausen in Upper Austria, and finally at Ebensee, until being freed by the arriving U.S. army in 1945.
After the war, Sindermann returned to Saxony and joined the KPD. After 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), created in April 1946 from the forced merger of Communists and Social Democrats in the Soviet Occupation Zone.
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