Bruno Max Leuschner (12 August 1910 – 10 February 1965) was a German politician and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

After graduating from high school in Berlin-Neukölln, he completed a clerical internship at the Lachmann & Meyer clothing factory in Berlin, where he then worked as a clerk, calculator, salesman, and most recently as an employee of the export department.

[1] He also attended the Marxist Workers' School and in 1931, he joined the KPD in the Berlin-Neukölln district, then he was active in Berlin-Wedding Ost, and from 1933 he held positions.

He was a collaborator of the newspaper "Der Rote Wedding" and was also active in KPD's military intelligence M-Apparat.

[3] In 1961, at the 13th Congress of the SED Central Committee, he was removed from the SED Central Committee as chairman of the State Planning Commission of the GDR, at the same time entrusting him with the position of minister responsible for coordinating basic economic tasks in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the GDR, and again as the permanent representative of the GDR to Comecon in 1962.