Kurt Hermann Ernst Paul Krüger (17 September 1925 – 21 October 2006) was an East German politician and diplomat whose career was crowned with an appointment, in 1982, as his country's ambassador to Kabul.
His own schooling came to an accelerated conclusion through the device of an "Emergency Abitur" due to the pressures arising out of war and he was conscripted for Labour service early in 1943.
That was the month in which he defected to the Red Army and almost immediately joined the Soviet backed National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD / Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland).
Then between April and August 1951 he undertook an illegal mission in West Germany, and involving the Unemployment agency, on behalf of the party central committee.
Between 1963 and 1972 he sat as a member of the local district assembly, serving as chairman of its Standing Commission for Order and Security.
Between 1974 and March 1982 he then served as general secretary of the committee, a position he surrendered before becoming, in April 1982, the German Democratic Republic's Ambassador to Afghanistan,[3] a posting he was to retain for a little more than four years.