Hans Chemnitzer (born Wildenfels 24 March 1929 – 1 November 2021) was a former East German national and regional politician.

[1][2] Chemnitzer was born into a working-class family near Zwickau in the southern part of what was then central Germany, approximately half a year before the Great stock market Crash started across the Atlantic.

[1] A career in government began with a position, which he held between 1955 and 1958, as Secretary for Agriculture with the regional party leadership in Zwickau.

[1] He then moved to Moscow, from 1958, studying at the Soviet Union's Party Academy, emerging with a degree in Social Sciences in 1961.

[3] Chemnitzer's career progression had fallen victim to the rolling demise of the German Democratic Republic itself.