Willy Sägebrecht

*Oberst*
Willy Sägebrecht
Oberst Willy Sägebrecht
	Sägebrecht c. 1947
Director of Military Intelligence
	In office; 1 September 1957 – 31 August 1959
Deputy	Siegfried Dombrowski
Preceded by	Karl Linke
Succeeded by	Arthur Franke
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party; in Brandenburg
	In office; 21 April 1946 – 23 July 1952
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Kurt Seibt (Bezirk Potsdam); Gerhard Grüneberg; (Bezirk Frankfurt); Franz Bruk (Bezirk Cottbus)
Preceded by
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Volkskammer
	In office; 18 March 1948 – 8 December 1958
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Member of the Landtag of Prussia; for Berlin
	In office; 25 May 1932 – 31 March 1933
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	21 February 1904; Groß Schönebeck, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Schorfheide-Groß Schönebeck, Brandenburg, Germany)
Died	8 April 1981 (aged 77); East Berlin, East Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1981)
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Germany; (1925–1946)
Spouse	Hedwig (1904-1974)
Children	Ursula (1924-2007)
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Worker;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx;
	Central institution membership 1946–1963: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1946: Full member,; KPD Central Committee ; Other offices held 1952–1954: First Deputy Chairman,; State Planning Commission ; 1946–1950: Member,; Landtag of Brandenburg ;

Willy Sägebrecht (21 February 1904 – 8 April 1981) was a political activist and politician from the Communist Party of Germany who was incarcerated as a resistance activist during the Nazi period. After 1945 he became a member of East Germany's powerful Party Central Committee and then, in 1957, head of the country's Military Intelligence Service.