Fritz Zeuner | |
Office1: | Chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association |
Term Start1: | 1979 |
Term End1: | 1982 |
Predecessor1: | Ernst Wulf |
Successor1: | Fritz Dallmann |
Birth Date: | 30 January 1921 |
Birth Place: | Dölzig, Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Weimar Republic |
Death Date: | 20 April 1982 (age 61) |
Death Place: | East Berlin, German Democratic Republic |
Occupation: | Politician |
Party: | Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1946-) Communist Party of Germany (1945-1946) |
Otherparty: | Peasants Mutual Aid Association (VdgB) |
Alma Mater: | University of Leipzig Parteihochschule Karl Marx |
Awards: | Patriotic Order of Merit, in Silver (1981) Patriotic Order of Merit, in Bronze (1975) |
Allegiance: | Nazi Germany |
Branch: | Wehrmacht |
Serviceyears: | 1940-1945 |
Battles: | World War Two |
Fritz Zeuner (1921-1982) was an East German politician, who was Chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association from 1979 to 1982.
He served in the Wehrmacht in World War II, and joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1945. He attended the University of Leipzig, where he studied economics. Zeuner was active in the VdgB from its founding in the late 1940s, and was director of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin from 1953 to 1961. In 1979, he became Chairman of the VdgB, and remained at that post until his death in 1982.[1] [2] [3]