Workers and Peasants Inspection (GDR)
The Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Inspektion (ABI) was a control institution in the GDR , which was subordinate to the Central Committee of the SED and the Council of Ministers of the GDR . It should ensure the unconditional fulfillment of party and government resolutions.
The workers and farmers inspection was introduced on May 14, 1963 with a resolution of the Central Committee of the SED and a resolution by the Council of Ministers within the framework of the New Economic System of Planning and Management (NÖS) under Walter Ulbricht . A comparable organization had been used in the Soviet Union for several decades to control industry and agriculture ( Russian Рабоче-крестьянская инспекция - Рабкрин, РКИ ). The forerunner of the workers and peasants inspection was the Central Commission for State Control at the Council of Ministers of the GDR formed in 1948 by the German Economic Commission .
The ABI should work “independently and independently of the leadership and leaders of the party, state and economic organs” and uncover and remove obstacles “with the support of the public without regard to the person”. With the failure of the NÖS, the ABI also lost its influence.
Erich Honecker had the law rewritten. From now on, the ABI was only supposed to ensure the fulfillment of the economic plan by closely monitoring compliance with SED resolutions, adherence to production plans, avoiding bureaucraticism and perfecting organization and management.
The system was built on around 280,000 voluntary ABI employees, the so-called “people's controllers”, who worked full-time in cooperatives, companies and combines, ministries and administrations. They monitored their employees and were authorized to issue instructions and even order disciplinary measures, but their actual influence was rather limited. However, the daily newspapers often reported on the successes of the people's controllers when it came to supply shortages and inadequate services; particularly blatant cases were even evaluated on GDR television.
At the suggestion of the Central Committee of the ABI, ABI employees could be honored as Honored People's Controller of the German Democratic Republic .
The ABI's head was formed by the ABI's Central Committee , whose chairman was to be a member of the Council of Ministers. The chairpersons of the Central Committee of the ABI were:
- 1963–1977: Heinz Matthes
- 1977–1989: Albert Stief
Other organs were branch inspections at the associations of people's own companies (VVB) as well as district , district, city and city district inspections . The regional bodies were accountable to the central committee as well as the local people's and community councils. The state and party political organizations such as the police, the judiciary, the Stasi and the party apparatus were not under any control by the ABI.
literature
- Birgit Wolf: Language in the GDR. A dictionary. de Gruyter, Berlin a. New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016427-2 , p. 2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Resolution on the admission and activity of the Workers and Peasants Inspection of the German Democratic Republic of May 13, 1963; GBl. II, 1963, p. 262ff.
- ↑ Law on the Workers and Peasants Inspection. Quoted from Daniela Dahn : Woe to the winner! No west without east. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-62468-1