Steinhoff Cabinet (Brandenburg) I.

The Steinhoff I cabinet was confirmed on July 4, 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) in Berlin-Karlshorst as the Mark Brandenburg provincial government and thus formed the highest state authority for the Mark Brandenburg province created on July 9, 1945. The cabinet was in office until December 18, 1946.

Office	Surname	Departments	Political party
president	Karl Steinhoff	Judiciary	SPD / SED
1st Vice President	Bernhard Bechler	Internal Affairs (Personnel and Administration) Police Justice (from September 1945)	Independent / KPD / SED
2nd Vice President	Edwin Hoernle	Food and agriculture Agriculture and forestry (from June 25, 1946) Economy and transport Economy and industry (from May 27, 1946) Transport (independent from May 1946) Trade and supply (from June 1946)	KPD
	Heinrich Rau (from August 1945)		KPD / SED
3rd Vice President	Fritz Rücker	Public education work and social affairs Resettlers and returnees (from October 1, 1946)	SPD / SED
4th Vice President	Georg Remak	Finances Justice (until September 1945) Health	independent
	Frank Schleusener (from September 1945)		CDU

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , pp. 97-100.
• Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg with the establishment of the central planned economy in the SBZ / GDR 1945-1952 , LIT-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 899 -900