List of members of the party executive committee of the SED
This list of the members of the SED party executive covers the period from the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED from 1946 to 1950. On the III. At the Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , a Central Committee based on the Soviet model was elected for the first time, replacing the party executive that had previously been in office. To continue, see the → members of the Central Committee navigation bar at the end of this illustration.
Composition of the party executive between the 1st and 2nd party congress of the SED
The board was elected at the unification convention on April 21 and 22, 1946 . He is to be regarded as the forerunner of the later Politburo and the Central Committee of the SED .
Central Secretariat
The division of labor was determined at the 1st meeting of the SED party executive on April 23, 1946.
Member of the Secretariat | managed departments | Stay during the 2nd World War | Remarks |
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Anton Ackermann (KPD) | Agitation Culture Promotion and Training Sports Popular Education |
Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Franz Dahlem (KPD) | Cadre youth party organs |
Vest emigrant, concentration camp inmate | |
Max Fechner (SPD) | State and legal issues youth economy |
Concentration camp inmate | |
Erich W. Gniffke (SPD) | Financial administration and party operations cadres, party organs, business department |
inner German, social democratic resistance | |
Otto Grotewohl (SPD) | General policy | inner German, social democratic resistance | |
August Karsten (SPD) | Financial management and party operations business department |
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Katharina Kern (SPD) | Women | inner German, social democratic resistance | |
Helmut Lehmann (SPD) | Health Policy, Labor and Social Welfare |
inner German, social democratic resistance | |
Hermann Matern (KPD) | Chairman of the SED regional association of Greater Berlin | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Otto Meier (SPD) | Agitation culture sports popular education |
inner German, social democratic resistance | |
Paul Merker (KPD) | Health Policy Labor and Social Welfare Agriculture |
Western emigrant | still in Mexico at the time of the election |
Wilhelm Pieck (KPD) | General policy | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Elli Schmidt (KPD) | Women | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Walter Ulbricht (KPD) | Security issues, state and legal issues, economy |
Moscow squad, NKFD member |
Remaining board
Surname | previous party | Regional association | Stay during the 2nd World War | Remarks |
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Martha Arendsee | KPD | Berlin | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Edith Baumann | SPD | Berlin | working in Berlin | |
Johannes R. Becher | KPD | Berlin | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Walter Biering | KPD | Province of Saxony | ||
Willy Boepple | KPD | Western zones; Mannheim | Wehrmacht member | |
Bruno Boettge | SPD | Province of Saxony | Air raid police | |
Erich Braun | SPD | Western zones; Hildesheim | ||
Hans Brede | SPD | Western zones; Kiel | ||
Willi book | SPD | Western zones; Braunschweig | ||
Albert Buchmann | KPD | Western zones; Stuttgart | Concentration camp inmate | |
Otto Buchwitz | SPD | Saxony | Prison inmate | |
Kurt Bürger | KPD | Mecklenburg | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Friedrich Ebert | SPD | Brandenburg | working | |
Werner Eggerath | KPD | Thuringia | Prison inmate | |
Max Fank | SPD | Mecklenburg | Wehrmacht, conscripted | |
Walter Fish | KPD | Western zones; Frankfurt / M. | West emigrant (Switzerland) | |
August Friedel | SPD | Saxony | working | |
Bernhard Goering | SPD | Berlin | working | |
Gustav Gundelach | KPD | Western zones; Hamburg | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Karl Hauser | KPD | Western zones; Frankfurt / M | ||
Ernst Heilmann | SPD | Western zones; Flensburg | resigned from office in August 1946 | |
Gertrud Hentsch | SPD | Saxony | ||
Ernst Hoffmann | SPD | Berlin | Penal Battalion 999, americ. Captivity | |
Heinrich Hoffmann | SPD | Thuringia | working | |
Erich Honecker | KPD | Berlin | Prison inmate | |
Hans Jendretzky | KPD | Berlin | employed, prison inmate | |
Willi Jesse | SPD | Mecklenburg | employed, emigrant from the west (Denmark, Sweden) | arrested by Soviet organs in July 1946 |
Fritz Jungmann | SPD | Province of Saxony | ||
Heinz Keßler | KPD | Berlin | Wehrmacht member, Moscow cadre, NKFD member | |
Bernard Koenen | KPD | Province of Saxony | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Wilhelm Koenen | KPD | Saxony | Western emigrant (England) | |
Olga grains | KPD | Saxony | Concentration camp inmate | |
Karl Litke | SPD | Berlin | working | |
Ernst Lohagen | KPD | Saxony | Concentration camp inmate | |
Georg Lotz | KPD | Thuringia | working | |
Erich Lübbe | SPD | Berlin | Concentration camp inmate | |
Hans Mahle | KPD | Berlin | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Albert Meier | SPD | Saxony | ||
Hanna Melzer | KPD | Western zones; Ruhr area | Prison inmate | |
Carl Moltmann | SPD | Mecklenburg | working | |
Gustav Müller | SPD | Western zones; Rhineland | ||
Kurt Mueller | KPD | Western zones; Hanover | Concentration camp inmate | |
Fritz Nickolay | KPD | Western zones; Saarbrücken | Interned, Western emigrant (France) | |
Hugo Paul | KPD | Western zones; Dusseldorf | employed, prison inmate | |
Hermann Prübenau | SPD | Province of Saxony | Wehrmacht member, prisoner of war | |
Max Reimann | KPD | Western zones; Ruhr area | Concentration camp inmate | |
Maria Rentmeister | KPD | Berlin | Prison inmate | |
Paul Roch | KPD | Brandenburg | working | |
Robert Rompe | KPD | Berlin | working | |
Emma Sachse | SPD | Thuringia | employed, concentration camp inmate | |
Willy Sägebrecht | KPD | Brandenburg | Prison and concentration camp inmates | |
Yella Schaar | SPD | Western zones; Heidelberg | February 1947 left the party | |
Hermann Schlimme | SPD | Berlin | employed, prison inmate | |
Waldemar Schmidt | KPD | Berlin | Prison inmate | |
Heinrich Schramm | KPD | Western zones; Bremen | Prison inmate | |
Fritz Sperling | KPD | Western zones; Munich | West emigrant (Switzerland) | |
Paul Szillat | SPD | Brandenburg | working | |
Gottlieb Teichert | SPD | Western zones; eat | ||
Stanislaw Trabalski | SPD | Saxony | employed, concentration camp inmate | |
Fritz Wagner | SPD | Thuringia | Wehrmacht member, americ. Captivity | |
Paul change | KPD | Berlin | Moscow squad, NKFD member | |
Hans Warnke | KPD | Mecklenburg | Concentration camp inmate | |
Oskar Wegener | SPD | Brandenburg | Duty to serve, concentration camp inmate | |
Richard Weimann | SPD | Berlin | ||
Antonie Wohlgemuth | SPD | Berlin | working | |
Hermann Zilles | KPD | Western zones; Cologne |
Composition of the party executive between II. And III. Party congress of the SED
The executive committee was elected at the Second Party Congress from September 20 to 24, 1947.
Central Secretariat
The division of labor was determined at the 1st meeting of the SED party executive on September 25, 1947.
Member of the Secretariat | managed departments | Remarks |
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Anton Ackermann (KPD) | Agitation Culture Promotion and Training Sports Popular Education |
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Walter Beling (KPD) | Financial administration and party operations | |
Otto Buchwitz (SPD) | Admission to the ZS by decision of the ZS of November 9, 1948 | |
Franz Dahlem (KPD) | Cadre youth party organs |
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Friedrich Ebert (SPD) | ||
Max Fechner (SPD) | State and legal issues youth economy |
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Erich W. Gniffke (SPD) | Financial administration and party operations cadres, party organs, business department |
Escape to the West Zone on October 28, 1948 |
Otto Grotewohl (SPD) | General policy | |
Hans Jendretzky (SPD) | General policy | co-opted as successor to Hermann Matern on October 18th |
August Karsten (SPD) | Financial management and party operations business department |
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Katharina Kern (SPD) | Women | |
Wilhelm Koenen (KPD) | Admission to the ZS by decision of the ZS of November 9, 1948 | |
Helmut Lehmann (SPD) | Health Policy, Labor and Social Welfare |
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Hermann Matern (KPD) | Chairman of the SED regional association of Greater Berlin | Retired on October 18, 1948, election as chairman of the ZPKK |
Otto Meier (SPD) | Agitation culture sports popular education |
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Paul Merker (KPD) | Health Policy Labor and Social Welfare Agriculture |
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Wilhelm Pieck (KPD) | General policy | |
Elli Schmidt (KPD) | Women | |
Walter Ulbricht (KPD) | Security issues, state and legal issues, economy |
Small Secretariat of the Politburo
The small secretariat was created by resolution of the 16th meeting of the party executive on January 24, 1949.
Member of the Secretariat | managed departments | Remarks |
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Alexander Abusch | from March 1950 | |
Hermann Axen | agitation | from October 1949 |
Edith Baumann | Financial administration and party operations women youth sports |
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Franz Dahlem | Work office of the KPD in the Central Committee of the SED Western Commission |
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Fred Oelßner | Agitation (only 1949) culture propaganda popular education sciences |
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Horst Sindermann | from October 1949 | |
Willi Stoph | from February 1950 in an advisory capacity | |
Walter Ulbricht | Kader Security Issues State and Legal Issues Economic Policy (until Oct. 1949) Church Issues |
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Paul Verner | from February 1950 in an advisory capacity | |
Paul Wessel | Health Policy Economic Policy (from October 49) |
until February 1950 |
Remaining board
Surname | previous party | Regional association | Remarks |
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Alexander Abusch | KPD | co-opted by resolution of the 21st board meeting | |
Gerda Bauer | KPD | Berlin | |
Edith Baumann | SPD | Berlin | |
Walter Biering | KPD | Saxony-Anhalt | |
Johannes R. Becher | KPD | co-opted by resolution of the 21st board meeting | |
Paul Bismark | SPD | Brandenburg | |
Bruno Boettge | SPD | Saxony-Anhalt | Excluded at the end of 1948 |
Albert Buchmann | KPD | Western zones; Stuttgart | retired in January 1949 |
Otto Buchwitz | SPD | Saxony | |
Kurt Bürger | KPD | Mecklenburg | |
Emmi Damerius | KPD | Saxony | |
Heinrich Deiters | KPD | co-opted by resolution of the 21st board meeting | |
Adolf Deter | KPD | Berlin | |
Kurt Dielitzsch | SPD | Western zones; Dortmund | retired in January 1949 |
Gerhart Eisler | KPD | co-opted by resolution of the 34th board meeting in July 1949 | |
Walter Fish | KPD | Western zones; Frankfurt / M. | retired in January 1949 |
August Friedel | SPD | Saxony | |
Bernhard Goering | SPD | Berlin | |
Gustav Gundelach | KPD | Western zones; Hamburg | retired in January 1949 |
Erich Guth | SPD | Mecklenburg | |
Karl Hauser | KPD | Western zones; Frankfurt / M | Resignation from the party in April 1948 |
Robert Hensel | SPD | Berlin | |
Ernst Hoffmann | SPD | Berlin | |
Friedel Hoffmann | SPD | Berlin | |
Heinrich Hoffmann | SPD | Thuringia | |
Oskar Hoffmann | KPD | Western zones; Wuppertal | retired in January 1949 |
Erich Honecker | KPD | Berlin | |
Hans Hubert | Western zones; Hanover | Resignation from the party in early 1948 | |
Hans Jendretzky | KPD | Berlin | |
Fritz Jungmann | SPD | Saxony-Anhalt | |
Hildegard Kaiser | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
Heinz Keßler | KPD | Berlin | |
Franz Klupsch | SPD | Western zones; Dortmund | retired in January 1949 |
Bernard Koenen | KPD | Province of Saxony | |
Wilhelm Koenen | KPD | Saxony | |
Olga grains | KPD | Saxony | |
Paul Kohlhöfer | SPD | Western zones; Frankfurt / M. | retired in January 1949 |
Erich Kops | KPD | Thuringia | |
Werner Krauss | KPD | co-opted by resolution of the 21st board meeting | |
Josef Ledwohn | KPD | Western zones; Herne | retired in January 1949 |
Karl Litke | SPD | Berlin | |
Ernst Lohagen | KPD | Saxony | |
Carl Moltmann | SPD | Mecklenburg | |
Kurt Mueller | KPD | Western zones; Hanover | retired in January 1949 |
Fritz Nickolay | KPD | Western zones; Saarbrücken | retired in January 1949 |
Otto Niebergall | KPD | Western zones; Mainz | retired in January 1949 |
Fred Oelßner | KPD | Berlin | |
Hermann Prübenau | SPD | Saxony-Anhalt | |
Gertrud Rast | KPD | Western zones; Kiel | retired in January 1949 |
Heinrich Rau | KPD | co-opted by resolution of the 34th board meeting in July 1949 | |
Max Reimann | KPD | Western zones; Ruhr area | retired in January 1949 |
Maria Rentmeister | KPD | Berlin | |
Robert Rompe | KPD | Berlin | |
Emma Sachse | SPD | Thuringia | |
Willy Sägebrecht | KPD | Brandenburg | |
Robert Schenk | KPD | Western zones; Lübeck | retired in January 1949 |
Hermann Schlimme | SPD | Berlin | |
Elli Schmidt | KPD | Berlin | |
Karl Schmidt | KPD | Thuringia | |
Heinrich Schramm | KPD | Western zones; Bremen | retired in January 1949 |
Fritz Sperling | KPD | Western zones; Munich | retired in January 1949 |
Paul Szillat | SPD | Brandenburg | |
Hans Venedey | SPD | Western zones; Constancy | retired in January 1949 |
Kurt Vieweg | KPD | Berlin | co-opted with the resolution of the 1st party conference in January 1949 |
Fritz Wagner | SPD | Thuringia | |
Paul change | KPD | Berlin | |
Hans Warnke | KPD | Mecklenburg | |
Herbert Warnke | KPD | Berlin | co-opted with the resolution of the 1st party conference in January 1949 |
Max Weber | Saxony | ||
Richard Weimann | SPD | Berlin | |
Otto winemaker | KPD | Berlin |
See also
- List of candidates for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
- List of the members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED
literature
- Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 .
- Andreas Malycha, Peter Jochen Winters: The SED. History of a German party. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59231-7 ( Beck'sche series 1944).
Individual evidence
- ^ Lecture by Karl Wilhelm Fricke on June 5, 2011 in Halle at the conference of former Vorkuta prisoners, document page 5 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.