Kurt Bürger

{{Short description|German politician}}

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Kurt Bürger (27 August 1894 in Karlsruhe, Baden as Karl Wilhelm Ganz – 28 July 1951 in Schwerin) was a German politician.

From 1912 to 1918, he was a representative of the Social Democratic Party. In 1919, he was a cofounder of the Communist Party of Germany.

After World War II, he became a member of the East German Socialist Unity Party and served as minister-president of the East German state of Mecklenburg in 1951.{{cite book|last=Van Melis|first=Damian|title=Entnazifizierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|year=1996|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jg26l6zS0XEC&q=%22Kurt%20b%C3%BCrger%22%201951&pg=PA37|isbn=978-3-486-56390-0|language=de}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|title=Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung|publisher= Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED|year=1969 |pages=840|language=de}}