Alois Bräutigam

Alois Bräutigam
Alois Bräutigam
	Bräutigam in 1988
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Erfurt
	In office; 27 June 1958 – 11 April 1980
Second Secretary	Paul Roscher; Adolf Wicklein;
Preceded by	Hermann Fischer
Succeeded by	Gerhard Müller
First Secretary of the; Socialist Unity Party at SDAG Wismut
	In office; December 1954 – June 1958
Second Secretary	Rolf Weihs;
Preceded by	Günter Röder
Succeeded by	Rolf Weihs
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Eisenach, Gotha
	In office; 3 December 1958 – 25 June 1981
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Ludwig Mecklinger
Personal details
Born	28 April 1916; Grünlas, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died	10 January 2007 (aged 90); Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Germany; (1946); Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; (1934–1946)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy;
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Policeman; Miner;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Banner of Labor; Order of Karl Marx; Star of Peoples' Friendship;
	Central institution membership 1958–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1963–1972: Member,; National Defence Council ; 1953–1954: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Erfurt ; 1950–1951: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Weimar district ; 1949–1950: First Secretary,; Socialist Unity Party in Arnstadt district ;

Alois Bräutigam (28 April 1916 – 10 January 2007) was a German-Czech miner, policeman, politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Born in the Kingdom of Bohemia, Bräutigam joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and was a member of a local resistance movement during World War II.

He moved to the Soviet occupation zone after the war, where he became a SED functionary. He served as the longtime First Secretary of the Bezirk Erfurt SED before being forced into retirement in 1980.