Günther Kleiber (16 September 1931, in Eula – 29 March 2013, in Berlin) was a former East German politician.

[1] Kleiber resigned all his offices on 8 November 1989, the day before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In 1997, Kleiber was convicted of manslaughter for his role in ordering border guards to shoot East Germans who were attempting to flee to the West, and sentenced to three years in prison.

[2][3] The verdict was upheld by the Federal Supreme Court in November 1999, and Kleiber reported to a prison in Berlin to begin serving his sentence on 18 January 2000.

After a request for clemency, where he expressed his regret for his actions as a member of the East German regime, he was, along with Günter Schabowski, pardoned by Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen[4] (CDU) and released from prison on 6 September the same year.