Alfred Rohde

[1] From 1946 to 1950, he was the chairman of the BGL (company trade union leadership) and, after attending the state party school "Ernst Thälmann" in Meißen, served as secretary of the SED party organization at VEB Universelle-Werke, a factory making machines for the production of cigarettes, from January to November 1951 and as a member of an SED city district leadership in Dresden.

From November 1955 to June 1966, he subsequently worked as an instructor in the party organs department and as a political staff member in the Central Committee of the SED.

[1] In 1969, Rohde was transferred to the Soviet-German joint-stock company (SDAG) Wismut SED as Second Secretary, succeeding Günter Eichmann,[1][2][3] who left to study at the Bergakademie Freiberg.

Party Congress), serving until its collective resignation in December 1989, and of the Volkskammer in November,[1] nominally representing a constituency in the Ore Mountains in Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt.

[1] During the Wende, on 12 November 1989, the SDAG Wismut SED removed him from the position of First Secretary and installed his longtime deputy Heinz Freitag as his successor.