List of members of the People's Chamber of the GDR (2nd electoral period)

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This list gives an overview of all members of the People's Chamber of the GDR in the 2nd electoral period (1954–1958).

composition

In the Volkskammer election of October 17, 1954, according to official figures, 99.46% of the voters voted in favor of the National Front's nomination .

fraction Seats of the GDR MPs Seats of the delegates from Greater Berlin Total seats according to party affiliation
SED 100 17th 117
DBD 45 7th 52
CDU 45 7th 52
LDPD 45 7th 52
NDPD 45 7th 52
FDGB 45 8th 53 -
DFD 25th 4th 29 -
FDJ 25th 4th 29 -
Kulturbund 15th 3 18th -
VdgB 10 2 12 -
independent
total 400 66 466

The election did not affect the strength of the factions. Their size was determined in advance. In the right column of the table above, the party affiliations of the members of the parliamentary groups of the FDGB, the DFD, the FDJ, the VdgB and the Kulturbund are taken into account.

Bureau

Group leaders

MPs

Surname fraction Remarks
Kurt Abendroth DBD
Wilhelm Adam NDPD
Rudolf Agricola SED
Rudolf Agsten LDPD
Heinrich Allmeroth FDGB
Kurt Anclam LDPD
Georg André NDPD
Linda Arndt SED Resignation from office in March 1955, announced on May 20, 1955
Heinz Arnold Cooperatives Member of the SED
Dora Arway DFD
Hermann Axen SED Berlin representative
August Bach CDU Chairman of the parliamentary group until 1955
Harry Bachmann SED on March 12, 1958 for the Abg. Schirdewan moved up
Arno Bähr LDPD
Fritz Barth SED
Karl-Heinrich Barthel NDPD moved up on January 18, 1956
Kurt Barthel Kulturbund Member of the SED
Johann Bartl SED
Alfred Bartsch SED
Bruno Baum SED Berlin representative
on May 17, 1957 for the Abg. Blender moved up
Edith Baumann SED Berlin representative
Johannes R. Becher Kulturbund Member of the SED
Otto Benecke VdgB
Hilde Benjamin SED
Gerhart Bensch LDPD
Hans Bertram LDPD Berlin representative
Dietrich Besler DBD
Hans Beyer NDPD
Fritz Beyling SED Berlin representative
Helmut Biedermann LDPD
Jost Biedermann CDU Berlin representative
Walter Biering SED
Gerhard Bläsing SED
Rudolf Blankenburger Cooperatives Member of the SED
Rudolf Blue SED
Johannes Blender SED died on February 4, 1957
Walter Boettger FDGB
Waldemar Bogenschneider FDJ
Lothar Bolz NDPD
Willi Bosold FDGB Berlin representative
on August 29, 1956 for the Abg. Bad followed
Brunhilde Brandt FDJ
Edith Brandt FDJ
Marie Brandt DBD
Walter Breitfeld SED Berlin representative
Arno Brömme SED
Edmund Brudzinski FDJ
Theodor Brugsch Kulturbund Berlin representative
Heinrich Bruhn FDGB Member of the SED
Otto Buchwitz SED Age president
Friedrich Burmeister CDU
Justus Claus LDPD
Horst Claussner FDJ
Erich Correns Kulturbund
Franz Cott DBD
Elfriede Dallmann NDPD Berlin representative
Siegfried Dallmann NDPD
Ewald Damaske CDU
Hans-Joachim Dattelbaum FDJ Berlin representative
Magnus Dedek CDU died on July 9, 1955
Heinrich Deiters Kulturbund Berlin representative
member of the SED
Gerd Delenschke NDPD Berlin representative
Kurt Deudloff SED died on February 8, 1956
Johannes Dieckmann LDPD President of the People's Chamber
Hildegund Diez NDPD Berlin representative
on August 29, 1956 for the Abg. Koltzenburg moved up
Marta Dittmar SED
Erich Dittrich FDGB
Ernst docks CDU
Rudolf Dolling SED
Otto Dohne SED Berlin representative
Hermann Dropmann CDU Berlin representative
on August 29, 1956 for the Abg. K. Hoffmann moved up
on November 29, 1957, died
Albert Dürr SED
Margarethe Dyck LDPD died on July 23, 1956
Klaus-Jürgen Ebelt LDPD
Frieda Ebert SED
Friedrich Ebert SED Deputy to the President of the People's Chamber
Charlotte Eichler FDGB Berlin representative
Manfred Einenkel LDPD
Franz Eiselt CDU
Use Endter FDJ
Kurt Engel FDGB
Gerhilde Engelhardt LDPD Berlin representative
Luise Ermisch SED
Arno Ettrich SED on November 16, 1956 for the Abg. Ringel moved up
Theodor Eversmann CDU on November 2, 1956 for the Abg. Olbrich moved up
Ruth Fabisch LDPD
Martha Faust FDGB
Wilhelm Feldmann NDPD
Werner Felfe FDJ Member of the SED
Frank Fienold FDGB
Karl Fischer CDU
Manfred Flegel NDPD
Fritz Flint CDU Berlin representative elected
on July 2, 1958 for Helmut Dropmann by the Berlin city council
Peter Florin SED
Hans Heinrich Franck Kulturbund Member of the SED
Alfred Franke LDPD
Hugo Franke FDGB
Reinhold Franz DBD
Ursula Friedrich CDU
Edeltrud Fritzsche DFD on August 29, 1956 for the Abg. Witt died
on July 16, 1958
Paul Fröhlich SED
Gisela Fuchs NDPD
Wilhelm Funder NDPD
Heinz Funke SED
Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans CDU died on January 20, 1955
Rolf Gasch FDGB
Rosemarie Gebbert FDJ
Richard Gebel NDPD
Paul Geisler FDGB Member of the SED
Jacob Gerlach FDGB
Manfred Gerlach LDPD
Ottomar gifts SED died on May 17, 1957
Hedwig Geyer FDGB on November 2, 1956 for the Abg. Lehmann moved up
Erich Giebner SED
Else Girke SED
Hans Gleichmar NDPD
Berthold Göcks LDPD died on February 28, 1957
Erich Göritz DBD Berlin representative
Gerald Götting CDU Deputy to the President of the People's Chamber
Margarete Götzelt Cooperatives
Arnold Gohr CDU Berlin representative
Ernst Goldenbaum DBD
Hans Gorzynski CDU on January 18, 1956 for the Abg. Dedek moved up
Martin Grabow CDU
Hermann Graefe DBD
Fritz Greuner LDPD
Grete Groh-Kummerlöw FDGB Deputy to the President of the People's Chamber,
member of the SED
Roberta Gropper FDGB Berlin representative,
member of the SED
Otto Grotewohl SED
Herbert greetings FDGB
Nelly Haalck CDU
Susanne Häber DBD
Franz Hahn NDPD
Georg Handke SED
Anna Hannig DFD
Hermann Harden LDPD
Ludwig Harms CDU on December 11, 1957 for the Abg. Moved up at noon
Robert Havemann Kulturbund Member of the SED
Klara Hedwig DFD
Gerhard Heerbach DBD Berlin representative
Rolf Heider FDJ
Werner Heidinger NDPD
Emma Heinrich CDU on April 16, 1958 for the Abg. Nuschke moved up
Artur Helbing FDGB
Katharina Helbing DFD Berlin representative
Eduard Hellwig LDPD on May 28, 1956 for the Abg. Herdegen moved up
Leonhard Helmschrott DBD
Adolf Hennecke SED
Reinhold Hennig NDPD Resigned on September 23, 1955, notified on September 26, 1955
Elsa Hentschke SED
Johannes Herdegen LDPD on January 18, 1956, notice of expiry of the mandate
Martin Hermann DBD
Frida Hockauf SED
Fritz Hofer FDJ Berlin representative
Ernst Hoffmann SED Berlin representative
Heinz Hoffmann SED
Herbert Hoffmann DBD
Kurt Hoffmann CDU Berlin representative
on January 18, 1956, notification of the expiry of the mandate
Erhardt Hohmuth DBD
Bruno Wood SED
Heinrich Homann NDPD Deputy to the President of the People's Chamber
Erich Honecker FDJ
Gustav Huebner FDGB
Christel Iwersen CDU Berlin representative
died on February 28, 1958
Anna Jahnke DBD
Wilhelm Jendras DBD
Karl Jünemann CDU
Erna Kadow SED Berlin representative
Hermann Kalb CDU
Otto Kalb CDU
Alfred Kalina FDGB
Gerhard Kalmring LDPD
Martha Kanow VdgB
Fritz Karguth SED on March 12, 1958 for the Abg. Ziller moved up
Fritz Karsunke DBD
Rolf Kaulfersch NDPD
Karl Kayser SED
Wally Keller DFD
Katharina Kern DFD
Günter Kertzscher SED Berlin representative
Heinz Keßler FDJ
Hans Kiefer SED
Bruno Kiesler FDJ
Ruth Kirchhoff NDPD
Walter Kirchhoff NDPD
Alfred Kirchner NDPD
Franz Kirchner CDU
Rudolf Kirchner FDGB
Victor Klemperer Kulturbund Member of the SED
Liselotte Klettner DFD
Karl Kneschke Kulturbund Member of the SED
Karl-Heinz Kniestedt FDJ Representative
from Berlin on December 11, 1957, presentation of the candidate who was to succeed him
Ulrich Knothe SED
Minna Koehler SED
Wilhelm Koenen SED
Walter König NDPD
Erwin Koerber DBD
Anna Kojetinski FDGB
Oswald Koltzenburg NDPD died on February 25, 1956
Egon Komarek SED
Inge Kornetzke FDJ Berlin representative
Willi-Peter Konzok LDPD
Gertrud Korb Kulturbund
Maria Koreng DBD
Vilmos grain NDPD
Otto Korrmann DBD
Werner Kraft NDPD
Johannes Kramer CDU
Richard Krams SED
Heinz Krause FDJ
Johanna Krause DBD
Walter Krause Cooperatives Berlin representative
Otto Krauss LDPD
Kurt Krenz SED
Horst Kreter NDPD
Erna Kriese DFD
Herbert Kroeger SED
Richard Kromarek VdgB Berlin representative
Anton Krückl CDU
Ernst Kruger FDGB Member of the SED
Greta Kuckhoff SED
Jürgen Kuczynski Kulturbund Member of the SED
Franz Kühler CDU Berlin representative
Charlotte Küter Kulturbund
Albert Sorrow SED
Paul Kurzawa SED
Ulrich kiss CDU Berlin representative
Herbert Landmann CDU Berlin representative elected
on July 2, 1958 for Christel Iwersen by the Berlin city council
Werner Lang SED
Anna Lange DFD Berlin representative
Friedrich Lange FDGB
Fritz Lange SED
Werner Lange FDJ
Jutta Langenau FDJ
Helmut Lehmann SED
Leocardia Lehmann FDGB on May 20, 1955 for the Abg. Lucas moved up
on November 2, 1956. Notice of departure
Johannes Leipoldt CDU
Benno Lentzsch FDGB Berlin representative
Harri Leupold LDPD Berlin representative
Bruno Leuschner SED
Elisabeth Liebenthal SED
Günter Liebig LDPD on November 2, 1956 for the Abg. Dyck moved up
Elsa Lippold DBD
Marianne List LDPD
Reinhold Lobedanz CDU died on March 5, 1955
Hans Loch LDPD
Heinz Lochar FDGB
Ursula Löbel FDJ
Jonny Löhr NDPD Berlin representative
Ernst Lorenz LDPD
Kurt Lucas FDGB Resignation of the mandate on May 20, 1955
Gerhard Lucht Cooperatives Member of the SED
Eva Ludwig NDPD Berlin representative
Margarete Ludwig CDU
Kurt Lüftner NDPD
Franz Lukowiak CDU
Paul Luzemann SED
Ernst Makeprange DBD
Heinz-Wolfram Mascher FDJ Member of the CDU
Hermann Matern SED 1. Deputy of the President of the People's Chamber
Gerhard Mattner DBD Berlin representative
Eusebius Mayer CDU
Georg Mayer SED
Heinrich Meier NDPD
Helene Meinhold FDGB
Horst Meischner NDPD
Else Merke DBD
Herbert Mertha FDGB
Alexander Mette Kulturbund Berlin representative
Alfred Meusel Kulturbund Member of the SED
Charlotte Mewes DFD
Karl Mewis SED
Siegfried Michl FDGB
Member of the SED died on November 23, 1954
Robert noon CDU died on March 28, 1957
Hans Modrow FDJ Berlin representative
on December 11, 1957 for the Abg. Kniestedt moved up
on September 24, 1958. Announcement of the election as parliamentary group chairman of
the SED
Otto Möller NDPD
Karl Mörl CDU on April 16, 1958 for the Abg. Rich moved up
Horst Mohr NDPD
Heinrich Moritz CDU
Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt DFD Member of the SED
Erich Mückenberger SED
Frieda Mueller DBD Berlin representative
Fritz Mueller DBD
Hans Müller FDGB Berlin representative
Helmut Müller LDPD
Max Muller SED
Vincenz Muller NDPD
Gerhard Münch NDPD
Ursula Muth DFD
Hans Nechels SED
Arndt Nestler FDGB
Barbara Neuhaus DBD Berlin representative
Heinz Neukrantz FDGB Berlin representative
Alfred Neumann SED
Anni Neumann FDGB Member of the SED
Elfriede Neumann DFD Berlin representative
Wilhelm Neumann FDGB
Käthe Nipkow FDGB
Otto Nuschke CDU died on December 27, 1957
Hans-Georg Oehm CDU
Fred Oelßner SED Resignation from office on March 8, 1958, announced in the People's Chamber on March 12, 1958
Georg Ohm SED on May 20, 1955 for the Abg. Arndt moved up
Veronika Olbrich CDU died on August 8, 1956
Max Opitz SED
Gerhard Ortmann DBD
Hermann Oschatz NDPD
Herbert Ott LDPD
Adolf Otto LDPD
Martha Pässold DBD
Fritz Panteleit DBD
Margarethe Paul NDPD
Maria Pavlovsky DFD
Anneliese bad luck LDPD Berlin representative
Leopold Pertek SED Berlin representative
Johann Peters DBD
Walter Petersohn SED
Friedrich Pfaffenbach NDPD Berlin representative
Susanne Pfannenberg CDU
Eugen Pfeiffer CDU
Paul Pflock LDPD
Erwin Pingel DBD
Hans Pitra SED Berlin representative
Anton Plenikowski SED
Arthur Plötz SED
Hermann Pobering DBD died on November 14, 1955
Karl Polak SED
Lydia Poser SED
Charlotte Praechter DFD
Charlotte Praße DFD
Rudolf Prüfer SED
Emma doll VdgB
Ernst-August Rabe LDPD
Erich Rätsch SED
Heinrich Rau SED
Ernst Rauer SED
Eitel-Friedrich Rechel CDU
Fritz Reck SED Berlin representative
Erich Rehberg FDGB Berlin representative
Elly Rehn DFD
Fritz Reiche CDU died on October 31, 1957
Heinz Reiche DBD
Hans Reichelt DBD
Rudi Reinwarth NDPD
Marianne Richter DFD
Martin Richter NDPD
Fritz Rick CDU on May 20, 1955 for the Abg. Lobedanz moved up
Hans Rietz DBD
Otto Ringel SED died on April 12, 1956
Heinz Ritter LDPD
Paul Roch DBD
Ilse Rodenberg NDPD
Heinz Röhrer CDU
Wolfgang Rösser NDPD
Berthold Rose DBD
Siegfried Roth NDPD
Erwin Rothe SED
Hertha Rudat FDGB
Martha Rudolph CDU
Hans Rudiger NDPD
Otto Rühle NDPD
Antje Ruge DFD Berlin representative
Willy hull SED
Margarete Rupp DFD
Hermann Ruthenberg SED
Otto Sadler CDU
Aenne Saefkow SED Berlin representative
Willy Sägebrecht SED Berlin representative
Kurt Säuberlich SED
Gertrud Sasse LDPD
Max skull FDGB
Elisabeth Schäfer NDPD
Willy Schäfer DBD
Ella Schaffernot SED
Rolaf Schahn FDJ
Herbert Schalwat FDGB
Heinrich Schaub LDPD
Rudi Scheffler SED
Fritz Schenk DBD
Johann Schewczyk SED Berlin representative
Erika Schildmann NDPD
Pink shilling DFD
Karl Schirdewan SED Resignation of the mandate on February 24, 1958, announced in the People's Chamber on March 12
Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher DFD Deputy President of the People's Chamber
Member of the LDPD
Wilhelm Schleef SED
Erwin Schlemmer SED
Willi Schlesier FDGB
Artur Schlesinger LDPD Berlin representative
Hermann Schlimme FDGB
Member of the SED died on November 10, 1955
Kate Schmerse SED
Else Schmidt DBD
Erna Schmidt FDGB
Heinrich Schmidt DBD
Richard Schmidt SED
Berthold Schmitt SED
Brunhilde Schmook DFD
Gabriele Schneider DFD
Günter Schneider LDPD
Max Schneider NDPD Berlin representative
Hans Schnitzler DBD
Georg Scholz LDPD
Paul Scholz DBD
Werner Schubert SED
Eleonore Schumann LDPD
Otto Schwarz Kulturbund
Max Sefrin CDU
Kurt Seibt SED
Ernst Seifert FDGB
Alfred Seiffarth NDPD
Hans Seigewasser SED
Fritz Selbmann SED
Charlotte Sembdner NDPD
Ernst deposit SED died on August 16, 1958
Max Seydewitz SED
Ewald victory DBD
Wilhelm victory VdgB on May 28, 1956 for the Abg. Carpenter moved up
Gustav Siemon NDPD
Otto Sierau FDGB
Paul Simon SED
Robert Sommer LDPD died on September 14, 1957
Fritz Sonnenburg CDU
Hermann Spencker LDPD
Gerhard Spremberg SED on March 12, 1958 for the Abg. Wollweber moved up
Max Steffen SED
Luitpold Steidle CDU
Charlotte Steinhaus CDU
Siegfried Steudte FDJ
Franz Steuter LDPD Berlin representative
Willi Stoph SED
Herbert Streich FDJ
Erich Streicher SED
Franz Striemann FDGB
Edgar Strümpfel DBD
Rudolf Sturm FDJ
Max Suhrbier LDPD
Ingeburg Tauschke Cooperatives
Herta Tetzlaff SED Berlin representative
Rosa Thalmann DFD
Use Thiele DFD
Herbert Thieme FDGB on January 12, 1955 for the Abg. Michl moved up
Fritz Thiemes DBD Berlin representative
Wilhelm Thiemke FDGB Berlin representative
Walter Thierfelder LDPD
Kurt Thinius LDPD
Walter Thürmer LDPD
Walter Tille FDGB Member of the SED
Käthe Timm CDU on March 2, 1955 for the Abg. Ganter-Gilmans moved up
Heinrich Toeplitz CDU
Alfred Tottewitz LDPD
Ferdinand Trauboth NDPD
Erich Uhlich SED
Walter Ulbricht SED
Erich Ullmann LDPD
Irma Uschkamp DFD
Karl-Heinz Vetter CDU
Paul Voitel SED
Paul Vollmert DBD on May 28, 1956 for the Abg. Pobering moved up
Erich Wächter CDU
Walter Wagner CDU
Rosel Walther NDPD
Paul change SED
Hans Warnke SED
Herbert Warnke FDGB Member of the SED
Herbert Waschke SED
Klaus Wegner FDGB
Friedrich Wehmer VdgB Member of the SED
Günther Wehnert LDPD on January 8, 1958 for the Abg. Summer moved up
Cecilie Weidenbach-Blum FDGB
Elsa Weigelt SED
Anna Weimann SED Berlin representative
Hans-Joachim Weinhold FDJ
Josef Weiser FDJ
Siegrid White FDJ
Erich Wendt Kulturbund Member of the SED
Josef Little FDGB
Otto Werner DBD
Wilhelm Werner NDPD
Harald Werthmann LDPD Berlin representative
Hans Wiedemann CDU
Georg Wiesemüller CDU Berlin representative
Horst Willim FDGB Member of the SED
Hans-Joachim Winkler FDGB Member of the SED
Martha Winkler SED
Otto winemaker SED
Else Witt DFD on August 29, 1956, successor was introduced for her
Margarete Wittkowski SED
Hans-Werner Woiczik FDJ
Richard Wolf SED Berlin representative
Fritz Wolff LDPD
Ernst Wollweber SED
Herbert Worch DBD
Kurt wishes LDPD
Joseph Wujciak CDU
Alfred Wunderlich NDPD
Alfred Zeidler LDPD on May 22, 1957 for the Abg. Göcks moved up
Gerhart Ziller SED Death by suicide on December 14, 1957
Max Zimmermann VdgB on January 18, 1956, notice of expiry of the mandate
Max Zipfel CDU
Alfred Zirnstein DBD
Arnold Zweig Kulturbund

Remarks

  1. The parliamentary group was made up of representatives from the VdgB and the Association of Consumer Cooperatives.
  2. [FDGB-Lexikon http://library.fes.de/FDGB-Lexikon/rahmen/lexikon_frame.html ]

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  • People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (Ed.) "Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic" , Berlin, Kongress Verlag, 1957.
  • Rita Pawlowski: Our women stand by their husbands. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1950 to 1989. trafo Verlag Berlin, 2008
  • People's Chamber of the GDR Minutes of the meetings of the People's Chamber in the 3rd electoral period 1954–1958