Dietmar Keller

Dietmar Keller (born 17 March 1942) was an East German politician (SED/PDS) who served as in the Modrow government. After reunification he sat as a member of the German parliament ("Bundestag") between 1990 and 1994.

Life Dietmar Keller was born at the height of the Second World War into a working-class family in Chemnitz, which is also where he grew up. That lasted till December 1977 when he took over as Party Regional Secretary for Sciences, Humanities, Popular education and Arts ("Sekretär für Wissenschaft und Kultur") in respect of the Leipzig party regional leadership team ("SED-Bezirksleitung").

Reunification took place, formally, in October 1990. On 3 October 144 of the 400 former members of the East German Volkskammer became members of a newly enlarged German Bundestag. Of those 144, 24 were members of the PDS (formerly SED), its dominating position in the Volkskammer having been destroyed by the election results seven months earlier. Dietmar Keller was one of the 24 PDS members who transferred from the Volkskammer to the Bundestag in October 1990. In December 1996 he married the manager of Gysi's political office, Marlies Deneke.