In office 21 September 1964 – 3 October 1973 Acting: October 1960 – 21 September 1964
Chairman of the State Council
Walter Ulbricht
Friedrich Ebert Jr. (acting)
First Deputy
Alfred Neumann
Horst Sindermann
Preceded by
Otto Grotewohl
Succeeded by
Horst Sindermann
Chairman of the State Council
In office 3 October 1973 – 29 October 1976
Preceded by
Friedrich Ebert Jr. (acting)
Succeeded by
Erich Honecker
Secretary for Economic Policy of the Central Committee Secretariat of the Socialist Unity Party
In office 25 July 1950 – 26 July 1953
First Secretary
Walter Ulbricht
Preceded by
Walter Ulbricht
Succeeded by
Gerhart Ziller (Economy)
Grotewohl Council of Ministers
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office 4 July 1962 – 24 September 1964
Chairman
Otto Grotewohl
Preceded by
Walter Ulbricht (1960)
Succeeded by
Alfred Neumann (1968)
Minister of National Defence
In office 1 March 1956 – 14 July 1960
Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Otto Grotewohl
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Heinz Hoffmann
Minister of the Interior
In office 6 May 1952 – 1 July 1955
Minister-President
Otto Grotewohl
Preceded by
Karl Steinhoff
Succeeded by
Karl Maron
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer for Dresden-Nord, Dresden-Ost[1]
In office 22 February 1950 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by
Wilhelm Pieck
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Wilhelm Stoph
(1914-07-09)9 July 1914 Schöneberg, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Germany)
Died
13 April 1999(1999-04-13) (aged 84) Berlin, Germany
Political party
Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989)
Other political affiliations
Communist Party of Germany (1928–1946)
Occupation
Politician
Engineer
Bricklayer
Awards
Order of Karl Marx
Central institution membership
1953–1989: Full member, Politburo of the Central Committee
1950–1989: Full member, Central Committee
Other offices held
1964–1973; 1976–1989: Deputy Chairman, State Council
1963–1989: Member, State Council
1960–1989: Member, National Defence Council
1954–1963: Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers
1948–1950: Head, Department for Economic Policy of the Central Committee
Wilhelm Stoph (9 July 1914 – 13 April 1999) was a German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989. He also served as chairman of the State Council (head of state) from 1973 to 1976.
^Schmidt, Arthur. "Volkskammer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1986-1990, Seite 29" (PDF). gvoon.de. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
Retrieved 23 July 2023. "Obituary: WilliStoph". The Independent. 21 April 1999. Rogers, Steven (2014). "Stoph, Willi (1914–1999)". In Zabecki, David T...
(SED) and Chairman of the National Defence Council; in 1976, he replaced WilliStoph as Chairman of the State Council, the official head of state. As the...
Dessau, Erich Honecker, Jürgen Kuczynski, Hermann Matern, Albert Norden, WilliStoph, Lotte Ulbricht, Paul Verner 1970: Bruno Apitz, Otto Braun, Max Burghardt...
and songs about Cologne Willi Schmid (1893–1934), German music critic WilliStoph (1914–1999), East German politician Willi Tokarev (1934–2019), Russian...
deputies. At its first session on 16 June, the Volkskammer re-elected WilliStoph as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, while Erich Honecker, General...
to army general. In 1960, Hoffmann was promoted as the successor of WilliStoph as Minister of National Defense of the GDR serving in that position until...
deputies. At its first session on 25 June, the Volkskammer re-elected WilliStoph as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, while Erich Honecker, General...
deputies. At its first session on 29 October, the Volkskammer elected WilliStoph as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, while Erich Honecker, General...
became its chairman, or prime minister, when the previous occupant, WilliStoph, succeeded the deceased Walter Ulbricht as Chairman of the State Council...
the control of the Comintern. Ulbricht tried to persuade the KPD founder Willi Münzenberg to go to the Soviet Union, allegedly so that Ulbricht could have...
Ortega, Zhou Enlai, Pavel Kutakhov, Maurice Bishop, Jacqueline Creft, WilliStoph, Nicolae Ceaușescu together with his wife Elena Ceaușescu, Lê Duẩn, Nikolay...
left-wing elements." In August 1950, six senior SED members, including Willi Kreikemeyer, the director of Deutsche Reichsbahn and head of Berliner Rundfunk...
of the deputy chairmen, Horst Sindermann and WilliStoph, were members of the Politbüro of the SED; Stoph was also chairman of the Council of Ministers...
administrations were subordinated to the Council. WilliStoph and his entire cabinet resigned on 7 November 1989. Stoph was succeeded by Hans Modrow. The SED gave...
violence". On 7 November, Krenz approved the resignation of Prime Minister WilliStoph and his entire cabinet along with two-thirds of the Politburo. However...
was selected instead. He became premier following the resignation of WilliStoph on 13 November, four days after the Berlin Wall fell. The SED formally...
Steinmüller (NDPD), WilliStoph (SED), Paul Strauß (SED) Secretary: Otto Gotsche (SED) State Council elected 13 July 1967 Deputy chairmen: WilliStoph (SED) Johannes...
border. On 7 November, Krenz approved the resignation of Prime Minister WilliStoph and two-thirds of the Politburo; however, Krenz was unanimously re-elected...
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Otto Grotewohl Marianne Stoph (née Wiegank) Alice Stoph (née Lütgens) wife of Chairman of the Council of Ministers WilliStoph Inge Sindermann (née Locke)...
meeting between representative of both states, Werner Krolikowski and WilliStoph, two members of the GDR politburo, had informed the leadership of the...
Minister of the Interior (Minister des Innern) Karl Steinhoff (1949–52) WilliStoph (1952–55) Chief of the German Volkpolizei (Chef der deutschen Volkspolizei)...
Secretary National Defense Council Chairman Erich Honecker Prime Minister WilliStoph Volkskammer President Horst Sindermann Minister of Defense Army General...
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