Werner Schmieder
{{Short description|East German finance minister (born 1926)}}
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| office = Minister of Finance and Prize
| primeminister = Willi Stoph
| predecessor = Siegfried Böhm
| successor = Ernst Höfner
| term_start = June 1980
| term_end = June 1981
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1926|11|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bannewitz
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| party = Socialist Unity Party of Germany
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Werner Schmieder (born 11 November 1926) is a former politician who served as the minister of finance in East Germany in the period 1980–1981.
Biography
Schmieder was born in Possendorf, today Bannewitz, on 11 November 1926.{{cite web|title=Schmieder, Werner|language=de
|url=https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/recherche/kataloge-datenbanken/biographische-datenbanken/werner-schmieder
|publisher=Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung}} He received a degree in economy and in 1967 he also obtained his Ph.D. in road engineering. Between 1949 and 1955 he worked at Investbank in Dresden. In 1955 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party. He was the head of the Investbank in Cottbus from 1955 to 1962. He served as the deputy minister of finance (1967–1974) and state secretary (1974–1980).
Schmieder was appointed minister of finance in July 1980 succeeding Siegfried Böhm in the post.{{cite book|author=Peter Joachim Lapp|title=Der Ministerrat der DDR: Aufgaben, Arbeitsweise und Struktur der anderen deutschen Regierung|year=2013|publisher=VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften|isbn=978-3-322-88734-4|location=Opladen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCWfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|language=de|page=137}} Schmieder's term ended in June 1981 when Ernst Höfner replaced him in the post.{{cite web|title=Deutschland (DDR). Ministerium der Finanzen|url=https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jpinst_00019622|publisher=University of Jena Libraries|access-date=1 November 2021}}
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Category:20th-century German engineers
Category:Finance ministers of East Germany
Category:Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Category:Members of the Volkskammer