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List of Provisional Volkskammer members information


With the founding act of the German Democratic Republic on October 7, 1949, the previously existing German People's Council transformed into the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR. At 12:45 PM on October 7, during its 9th and final session in the Grand Hall of the German Economic Commission, the German People's Council decided to transform itself into the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR. At 5:35 PM on the same day, the Provisional People's Chamber was constituted. One of the purposes of this constitution was to enact the Constitution of the GDR into effect.

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List of Provisional Volkskammer members

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der Provisorischen Volkskammer; see its history for attribution. Portal:  East Germany Protokolle der Provisorischen Volkskammer The SDA was the Social...

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Council of Ministers of East Germany

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Council were selected by the GDR Volkskammer (parliament) for a term of five years. Within the centralized state structure of the GDR, the city, county and...

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Katharina Kern

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itself into the "Provisorische Volkskammer" ("Provisional People's Parliament" of East Germany). Essentially the members of the "Zweite Deutsche Volksrat"...

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Margot Honecker

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People's Chamber (German: Volkskammer). Margot Feist met her future husband, Erich Honecker, at FDJ meetings when he was the chairman of the Freie Deutsche Jugend...

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Heinz Hoffmann

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(Volkskammer) and was a candidate for the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1952 he joined the Central Committee of the...

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Gustav Siemon

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German politician. At a national level he was a member of the East German National legislature (Volkskammer). Regionally, he led the National Democratic...

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Max Seydewitz

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director of the Berliner Rundfunk. Seydewitz was elected by the Saxon state parliament as Prime Minister of Saxony and became a member of the Volkskammer. In...

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Edith Baumann

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such as direct representation in the national parliament "Volkskammer". She remained a member of the DFD national executive till 1964. She was elected to...

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Anton Plenikowski

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was a member of the Volkskammer in 1950-1967, candidate to the Central Committee of the SED (1954–1967) and head of the office of the council of ministers...

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Erich Mielke

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continued, speaking of the "triumph" of the socialist economy, continuing all the while to address the members of the Volkskammer as "Comrades" (German:...

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Karl Hamann

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1950 Hamann sat as a member of the Thüringer Landtag (regional assembly). From 1949 he also sat as a member of the national Volkskammer (Peoples' Chamber)...

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Leonhard Helmschrott

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than 6,000 editions of the newspaper which appeared three times per week. In 1949 Helsmchrott was elected to the national Volkskammer ("Peoples' parliament")...

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Chamber of States

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German reunification in 1990, was the People's Chamber (Volkskammer). In the Federal Republic of Germany the expression Länderkammer is sometimes used to...

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Kurt Vieweg

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the parliament (the Volkskammer) and a member of the Central Committee of the SED. Kurt Vieweg was born in Göttingen, the son of a bank employee. After...

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Bernard Koenen

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Legislative Assembly (Volkskammer) was also controlled by the ruling SED (that is to say, by its Central Committee). In terms of power and influence Koenen's...

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Friedrich Wehmer

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chairman. Wehmer was part of the German People's Council (Volksrat) and the People's Chamber (National Assembly / Volkskammer) which succeeded it in 1949...

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Elli Schmidt

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Elli Schmidt also served as a member of the People's Council ("Volksrat") and of the national parliament ("Volkskammer") which emerged from it between...

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Wilhelm Koenen

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until his death, he was a member of the Volkskammer and was leader of the Secretariat. In May 1953, he was accused of "a lack of vigilance" and was reprimanded...

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East Germany

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currency. Although the Volkskammer's declaration of accession to the Federal Republic had initiated the process of reunification, the act of reunification itself...

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History of East Germany

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controlled the Council of Ministers and reduced the legislative function of the Volkskammer to that of acclamation. Election to the Volkskammer and the state legislatures...

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Robert Havemann

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became a professor of physical chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He became a member of the Volkskammer in 1950 and won one of the GDR's national...

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Hermann Budzislawski

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he sat as a member of the East German National Legislature (Volkskammer) (an institution of vanishingly little political influence before 1990). Till 1967...

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List of last survivors of historical events

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last living members of a historic group that directly contributed to such an event (e.g. Manhattan Project scientists). Excluded from this list are last...

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