Alfred Lemmnitz (27 June 1905 – 23 September 1994) was East Germany's National Education Minister.Lemmnitz was born in Taucha, Saxony and completed training as a typesetter and studies in economics at the University of Leipzig. From 1927 to 1931, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and youth leader of the Socialist Worker Youth in Moers.