Office for the legal protection of assets of the GDR

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The Office for the Legal Protection of Property of the GDR (AfR) was an organ of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic .

tasks

The AfR was founded on the basis of a Council of Ministers decision on August 18, 1966. It was responsible for settling open property issues. His tasks included securing the property rights of the GDR outside of its territory as well as controlling the state-administered property of beneficiaries from the Federal Republic of Germany including West Berlin as well as from other states.

The predecessor of the office was the Central Office for the Protection of Public Property at the Council of Ministers of the GDR, which was headed by Hermann Kleyer from 1964 .

Head of Office

The AfR was handled by the then Federal Office for the Regulation of Open Property Issues (BARoV) (later: Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues - BADV), which also manages the AfR archive.

Legal Regulations

First implementing provision for the ordinance on the administration and protection of foreign property in the German Democratic Republic, dated August 11, 1952, Law Gazette of the GDR, No. 114/1952, p. 745
  • Statute of the Office for the Legal Protection of Property of the GDR - resolution of the Council of Ministers of October 31, 1974 (GDR Journal I No. 56 of November 21, 1974).
  • Act on the compensation according to the law regulating open property issues and State compensation for expropriations occupation law or jurisdiction (compensation and compensation law - EALG): Art. 11: cancellation of RM-securities regulates claims to the issuance of securities from previous AfR were administered.
Wikisource: Foreign assets administration regulation (GDR) 1951  - Sources and full texts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the BADV . Retrieved January 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Macro log (start page visible free of charge)