Government de Maizière

The government of the GDR Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière was the first freely elected and at the same time the last government in the GDR . The formation of a government was the result of the People's Chamber election on March 18, 1990 . The reign ended as part of German reunification with the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990.

Government formation

The coalition agreement was signed on April 12, 1990

As a result of the Volkskammer election, the CDU's top candidate Lothar de Maizière formed a coalition government consisting of:

• the electoral alliance (without a common list) Alliance for Germany with the participants, that of the former GDR bloc party Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), and the newly founded parties German Social Union (DSU) and Democratic Awakening (DA)
• of the newly founded Social Democratic Party in the GDR
• the electoral alliance (with a common list) Bund Free Democrats , which consisted of DFP , LDP and FDP .

On April 12, 1990, Lothar de Maizière was elected Prime Minister of the GDR by the People's Chamber , newly elected on March 18, with 265 votes, 108 against and 9 abstentions. The MPs then also confirmed his cabinet en bloc.

Government reshuffle in the summer of 1990

On July 24, 1990, the Bund Freier Democrats (The Liberals) resigned from the coalition government, but the two ministers remained in the cabinet. The reason for this was disputes over the modalities of the upcoming first all-German federal election on December 2, 1990 . On August 15, Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière announced the dismissal of some ministers whom he blamed for the economic misery in the GDR: Walter Romberg (SPD, finances), Peter Pollack (independent, nutrition, agriculture and forestry) and Gerhard Pohl (CDU, economy). The SPD then withdrew its ministers and state secretaries from the government on August 20 and ended the coalition.

Government members

De Maizière government April 12 to October 2, 1990.

Office	Surname	Political party	Parl. State Secretary	State Secretary
Prime Minister	Lothar de Maizière	CDU	Günther Krause (CDU)
Office of the Prime Minister	Klaus Reichenbach	CDU		Lothar Moritz (CDU) Gottfried Klepel Petra Erler Almuth Berger (Commissioner for Foreigners)
Deputy Prime Minister and Internal Affairs	Peter-Michael Diestel	DSU from June 30, 1990: independent from August 3, 1990: CDU		Peter Müller Eberhard Stief
Foreign Affairs	Markus Meckel until August 20, 1990 Lothar de Maizière from August 22, 1990	SPD CDU	Frank Tiesler (DSU) Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz until August 20, 1990 (SPD)	Kersten Radzimanowski Helmut Domke
Regional and Local Affairs	Manfred Preiss	BFD		Jürgen Klingbeil
economy	Gerhard Pohl Dismissed on August 16, 1990 Gunter Halm provisionally from August 16, 1990	CDU BFD	Stefan Körber until August 20, 1990 (SPD)	Martin Dube Gunter Halm Dieter Prietzel Stefan Körber
Finances	Walter Romberg Dismissed on August 16, 1990 Werner Skowron provisionally from August 16, 1990	SPD CDU	Dieter Rudorf until August 20, 1990 (SPD)	Werner Skowron Martin Maaßen Walter Siegert
Trade and tourism	Sybille Reider until August 20, 1990 Lothar Engel provisionally from August 20, 1990	SPD independent		Werner Jurich Bruno Benthien
Judiciary	Kurt Wünsche released on August 16, 1990 Manfred Walther provisionally from August 16, 1990	BFD from July 3, 1990: independent CDU	Rolf Schwanitz July 23 to August 20, 1990 (SPD)	Reinhard Nissel Manfred Walther
Food, agriculture and forestry	Peter Pollack Dismissed on August 16, 1990 Peter Kauffold provisionally August 16-20 , 1990 Gottfried Haschke provisionally from August 20, 1990	Independent SPD CDU	Peter Kauffold (SPD) until August 16, 1990 Gottfried Haschke (CDU) since August 20, 1990	Michael Heinemann Dieter Schwarze
Work and social	Regine Hildebrandt until August 20, 1990 Jürgen Kleditzsch provisionally from August 22, 1990	SPD CDU	Alwin Ziel (SPD) until August 20, 1990	Horst Kienitz Fritz-Klaus Kochan
Disarmament and defense	Rainer Eppelmann	THERE	Bertram Wieczorek (CDU)	Frank Marczinek Werner Ablaß
Youth and sport	Cordula Schubert	CDU		Horst Iske Burkhard Eisoldt
Family and women	Christa Schmidt	CDU	Hans Geisler (CDU)	Helga Kreft
Healthcare	Jürgen Kleditzsch	CDU	Thomas Schmidt (DSU)	Horst Schönfelder
traffic	Horst Gibner	CDU	Manfred Jakob Dott (DSU)	Bernd Rohde (CDU) Bernward Rechel (CDU)
Environment, nature conservation, energy and reactor safety	Karl-Hermann Steinberg	CDU		Gerhard Behrendt Uwe Pautz Winfried Pickart
Post and telecommunications	Emil Schnell until August 20, 1990 Hans-Jürgen Niehof provisionally from August 20, 1990	SPD independent	Hans-Jürgen Niehof (independent)	Klaus Wolf Jürgen Liepe
Construction, town planning and housing	Axel Viehweger until September 28, 1990	BFD		Michael Bräuer Franz-Joseph Glotzbach
Research and technology	Frank Terpe until August 20, 1990 Hans Joachim Meyer provisionally from August 22, 1990	SPD independent	Ernst-Hinrich Weber (CDU)	Dieter Pötschke
education and Science	Hans Joachim Meyer	independent	Rainer Jork (CDU)	Ekkehard Schwerin Klaus Achtel Dieter Reiher
Culture	Herbert Schirmer	CDU		Udo Bartsch Gabriele Muschter
Media policy	Gottfried Mueller	CDU	Horst Schulz (CDU)	Manfred Becker
Economic Cooperation	Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling	DSU from July 2, 1990: non-party	Oswald Wutzke (CDU)	Wolf-Dieter Graewe

• Government spokesman : Matthias Gehler
• Deputy Government Spokeswoman: Angela Merkel

See also

• List of the German federal governments

Web links

• Federal Foundation for Work-Up : Awakening and Unity. The last GDR government. Comprehensive range of information, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutsche-einheit-1990.de principles of the coalition agreement between the parliamentary groups of the CDU, the DSU, the DA, the liberals (FDP, BFD, FDP) and the SPD of April 12, 1990