Gunter Rettner

Gunter Rettner
Rettner (centre) between Oskar Lafontaine and Hans Modrow in 1985
Head of the West Department of the Central Committee
In office 28 October 1985 – 3 December 1989
Secretary	Hermann Axen Günter Sieber
Deputy	Karl Wildberger Hans-Georg Schuster Harry Morgenstern
Preceded by	Herbert Häber
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	Gunter Rettner (1942-01-28)28 January 1942 Zeitz, Province of Saxony, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Died	11 December 1998(1998-12-11) (aged 56) Finowfurt, Brandenburg, Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party (1963–1989)
Alma mater	Central Komsomol School CPSU Higher Party School "W. I. Lenin" (Dipl.-Ges.-Wiss.)
Occupation	Politician Party Functionary Bricklayer
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 2nd class
Central institution membership 1988–1989: Full member, Central Committee 1986–1988: Candidate member, Central Committee Other offices held 1989: Head, Traffic Department of the Central Committee 1983–1985: Deputy Head, West Department of the Central Committee

Gunter Rettner (28 January 1942 – 11 December 1998) was a German politician and functionary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In the German Democratic Republic, during the 1980s, a period of German-German rapprochement, he served as head of the powerful Department for International Politics and Economics (previously known as West Department) of the SED Central Committee. In this role, he held contacts with many West German politicians.