Karl Grünheid

Karl Grünheid (20 July 1931 – 9 January 2004) was a German civil servant and politician of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Grünheid notably served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers' Economic Committee, successor of the State Planning Commission, in the new transitional government of Hans Modrow during the Peaceful Revolution.

[1][2] From 1950 to 1957, he was a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and joined the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) in 1953.

He also served as deputy head of the joint government commission for economic and scientific-technical cooperation between the GDR and the USSR.

[1] In December 1983, he succeeded retiring Werner Greiner-Petter as Minister for the Glass and Ceramic Industry in the Stoph government.