Gerhard Zwerenz (3 June 1925 in Gablenz, Saxony – 13 July 2015) was a German writer and politician.

Gerhard Zwerenz was born in Gablenz, a district of Crimmitschau.

[1] After an apprenticeship to a coppersmith he enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1942 and participated in World War II.

From 1953 until 1956 he studied philosophy under Ernst Bloch at Leipzig University.

Later he and his wife, writer Ingrid Zwerenz [de], lived in Munich, Cologne, Offenbach am Main and Oberreifenberg/Schmitten im Taunus.