Ernst Mecklenburg

Ernst Mecklenburg
Chairman of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany
In office 1982–1987
Preceded by	Ernst Goldenbaum
Succeeded by	Günther Maleuda
Member of the Volkskammer
In office 1971–1987
Mayor of Rehna
In office 1950–1952
Personal details
Born	(1927-06-03) 3 June 1927 Blöcken, East Prussia, German Reich (now Osokino, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
Political party	Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (1950-1990)
Profession	Politician
Awards	Order of Karl Marx Patriotic Order of Merit
Military service
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Branch/service	Wehrmacht
Years of service	1945-1945
Battles/wars	Second World War

Ernst Mecklenburg (born 3 June 1927) is a former East German politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DFD).

Biography

Mecklenburg was born in Blöcken (now Osokino in Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast) in East Prussia in 1927 to a farming family. He attended school to be trained as a teacher in Memel during World War II and was recruited into the Wehrmacht shortly before the war's end in January 1945. After the war, Mecklenburg was active in both agriculture and mining in the newly-formed German Democratic Republic. In 1950 he joined the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany and the Free German Youth.

His first political office was that of mayor of the town of Rehna from 1950 to 1952. In 1954, he became district secretary of the DFD in Rostock and in 1963 was made a member of the executive committee of the party. He was elected to the Volkskammer as a member of the DFD in 1971. In 1982, Mecklenburg succeeded Ernst Goldenbaum as chairman of the party and served in this capacity until his own retirement from politics for health reasons.