A file of correspondence and reports concerning the leading personalities in East Germany in 1982. The report offers personality notes and career profiles of leading members of the East German politburo; members of the secretariat, the Volkskammer, and the Council of State; and the members of the Council of Ministers, including the chairman and the deputy chairmen. Further information is provided on East German trade unionists, youth leaders, women's leaders, cultural leaders, and the chairmen of other political parties. The report also covers diplomatic officials, dramatists, writers, journalists, bankers, civic leaders, and religious leaders. Other subjects covered in the file include the seventieth birthday celebrations for the East German leader, Erich Honecker; and the deaths of a former politburo member, Albert Norden, and a leading dissident, Robert Havemann.