Günter Glende (9 January 1918 – 27 March 2004) was an East German party official. Between 1964 and 1989 he served as leader of the Central Committee's department for administering the country's businesses ("Verwaltung der Wirtschaftsbetriebe") in succession to Walter Heibich. Glende himself became a member of the powerful party Central Committee in 1960, remaining a member (as was not unusual) till the ending of the one-party dictatorship in 1989/90. He was the husband of Gisela Glende from 1973 till his death.