Werner Felfe

Werner Felfe (4 January 1928 – 7 September 1988) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Felfe served as the longtime First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Halle, center of the GDR's large and important chemical industry, and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In the 1980s, he was the powerful SED Agriculture Secretary, instituting various reforms to the GDR's collectivized agricultural sector.

Until his surprising death in September 1988, he was thought of as a potential successor to Erich Honecker. Provided by Wikipedia