Provisional government of the GDR

The provisional government of the GDR was formed by law on the government of the GDR (decided by the Provisional People's Chamber ) on October 7, 1949. It existed until November 7, 1950, after which the Council of Ministers became the government of the GDR.

According to the law, the members of the government were: the prime minister, his 3 deputies and the 14 specialist ministers. (or 15 after the state security department was elevated to a ministry by the law on the formation of a ministry for state security of February 8, 1950)

Office	Surname	Political party	State Secretary	Political party
Prime Minister	Otto Grotewohl	SED	Fritz Geyer	SED
Deputy Prime Minister	Walter Ulbricht Hermann Kastner (until July 1950) Otto Nuschke	SED LDPD CDU
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Georg Dertinger	CDU	Anton Ackermann	SED
Minister of the Interior	Karl Steinhoff	SED	Hans Warnke	SED
Minister of Finance	Hans Loch	LDPD	Willy hull	SED
Minister for Popular Education	Paul change	SED	Ruth Fabisch	LDPD
Minister for Industry	Fritz Selbmann	SED	Alfred Wunderlich	NDPD
Minister of Planning in 1950 transformed into the State Planning Commission	Heinrich Rau	SED	Bruno Leuschner	SED
Minister for Foreign Trade and Material Supply From November 11, 1949 renamed: Minister for Inner German Trade, Foreign Trade and Material Supply	Georg Ulrich Handke	SED	Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans	CDU
Minister for Trade and Supply	Karl Hamann	LDPD	Rudolf Albrecht	DBD
Minister for Construction	Lothar Bolz	NDPD	Wilhelm von Stoltzenberg	LDPD
Minister of Labor and Health	Luitpold Steidle	CDU	Paul Peschke	SED
Minister of Justice	Max Fechner	SED	Helmut Brandt	CDU
Minister of Post and Telecommunications	Friedrich Burmeister	CDU	Wilhelm Schröder	SED
Minister of Transport	Hans Reingruber	independent	Wilhelm Bachem	CDU
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry	Ernst Goldenbaum	DBD	Paul Merker	SED

Changes:

Office	Surname	Political party	State Secretary	Political party
Established from October 12, 1949 : Office for Information at the Prime Minister of the GDR	Gerhart Eisler	SED
Established from February 8, 1950 : Minister for State Security	Wilhelm Zaisser	SED

predecessor	Government of the German Democratic Republic	successor
Allied Control Council	Provisional government of the GDR 1949–1950	Council of Ministers of the GDR

Individual evidence

1. ^ Law on the Government of the GDR: http://www.verfassungen.de/de/ddr/regierungsgesetz49.htm Online publication, accessed on January 10, 2018
2. ↑ Law on the formation of a Ministry for State Security: http://www.verfassungen.de/de/ddr/mfsbildung50.htm Online publication, accessed on January 10, 2018.