Bernhard Quandt

Bernhard Quandt
Quandt in 1958
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Schwerin
In office 1 August 1952 – 28 January 1974
Second Secretary	Heinz Bendig Heinrich Mosler Johann Raskop Heinz Ziegner
Preceded by	Karl Mewis (as First Secretary of the SED in Mecklenburg)
Succeeded by	Heinz Ziegner
Minister-President of Mecklenburg
In office 24 August 1951 – 23 July 1952
Preceded by	Kurt Bürger
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Mecklenburg Cabinet Minister of Agriculture and Forestry[a] In office 10 February 1948 – 23 July 1952 Minister-President Wilhelm Höcker Kurt Bürger himself Preceded by Otto Möller Succeeded by Position abolished
Volkskammer Member of the Volkskammer for Schwerin-Stadt, Schwerin-Land, Gadebusch, Sternberg In office 3 December 1958 – 5 April 1990 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	(1903-04-14)14 April 1903 Rostock, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire (now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
Died	2 August 1999(1999-08-02) (aged 96) Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Political party	Party of Democratic Socialism (1989–1999)
Other political affiliations	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989) Communist Party of Germany (1923–1946) Social Democratic Party (1920–1923)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy
Occupation	Politician Party Functionary Machinist
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class Banner of Labor Order of Karl Marx Star of Peoples' Friendship
Central institution membership 1958–1989: Full member, Central Committee Other offices held 1973–1989: Member, State Council 1946–1948: Member, Landtag of Mecklenburg 1946–1948: Second Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Mecklenburg 1945–1946: District Administrator, Güstrow district

Bernhard Quandt (14 April 1903 – 2 August 1999) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Quandt became politically active in the waning years of the Weimar Republic for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), spending several years in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps during Nazi rule.

He moved to the Soviet occupation zone after the war, where he became a SED functionary. He served as the last Minister-President of Mecklenburg before its dissolution and thereafter as the longtime First Secretary of the Bezirk Schwerin SED before being forced into retirement in 1974.

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