List of the members and candidates of the Central Committee of the SED after the III. Party congress
This list gives an overview of the III. SED party congress (July 20–24, 1950) elected members and candidates of the SED Central Committee. The 1st Secretary, the members and candidates of the Politburo and the Secretaries of the Central Committee were elected from among its members.
Members and candidates of the Central Committee
| Surname | Member since | Status within the ZK | full-time position at the time of the party congress |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anton Ackermann | 1946 | Politburo candidate | State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR, head of the Institute for Economic Research |
excluded from the Central Committee at the 17th Central Committee meeting (January 22-23, 1954) |
| Hermann Axen | 1949 | Secretary of the Central Committee | Head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department at the SED Central Committee | |
| Kurt Barthel | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | writer | |
| Gerda Bauer | 1947 | Central Committee member | ||
| Edith Baumann | 1946 | Secretary of the Central Committee, responsible for youth and sport | ||
| Georg Baumann | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the VdgB state board of Thuringia | |
| Johannes R. Becher | 1946 | Central Committee member | President of the PEN Center Germany, writer | |
| Hertha Bergmann | 1950 | Central Committee member | Secretary in the SED district leadership in Zwickau-Land | |
| Walter Biering | 1946 | Candidate of the Central Committee | farmer | |
| Erich Birnbaum | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Machine master at the Rostock Warnow shipyard | |
| Kurt Boehme | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the SED area leadership in Wismut | |
| Werner Bruschke | 1950 | Central Committee member | Prime Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Otto Buchwitz | 1946 | Central Committee member | President of the Saxon state parliament, senior president of the People's Chamber | |
| Kurt Bürger | 1946 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED state leadership in Mecklenburg | died on July 28, 1951 |
| Franz Dahlem | 1946 | Member of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee for Western Labor |
Removed from his party functions at the 13th Central Committee meeting (May 13-14, 1953) and thus excluded from the Central Committee | |
| Adolf Deter | 1947 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1st chairman of the FDGB district board in Berlin | |
| Horst Dohlus | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the SED object management in Wismut in Oberschlema | |
| Friedrich Ebert | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | Lord Mayor of East Berlin | |
| Max Fechner | 1947 | Central Committee member | Minister of Justice | at the 15th Central Committee meeting (July 24-26, 1953) excluded from the party and thus from the Central Committee |
| Margot Feist-Altenkirch | 1950 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership Brandenburg / Havel | |
| Margot Feist | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairwoman of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann | |
| Lena Fischer | 1950 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Köpenick | at the 13th Central Committee meeting (May 13-14, 1953) from the party and thus excluded from the Central Committee |
| Eduard Götzl | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Party secretary of the Maxhütte Unterwellenborn | |
| Otto Grotewohl | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | Prime Minister of the GDR | |
| Kurt Hager | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the party training and propaganda department at the SED Central Committee; Professor for Dialectical u. historical materialism at the HUB | |
| Helmut Hartwig | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 2. Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Gerhard Heidenreich | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Head of the Cadre Department of the Central Committee of the SED | |
| Rudolf Herrnstadt | 1950 | Politburo candidate | Editor-in-chief of the SED central organ New Germany | excluded from the Central Committee at the 15th Central Committee meeting (July 24-26, 1953) |
| Ernst Hoffmann | 1946 | Central Committee member | 2. Secretary of the SED regional leadership for Greater Berlin | |
| Heinz Hoffmann | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Minister of the Interior; Head of Training Headquarters; General Inspector | |
| Gerda Holzmacher | 1950 | Central Committee member | Secretary in the SED regional management in Thuringia | |
| Erich Honecker | 1946 | Politburo candidate | 1. Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Hans Jendretzky | 1946 | Politburo candidate | 1. Secretary of the SED regional leadership for Greater Berlin | |
| Katharina Kern | 1946 | Central Committee member | Head of the Mother and Child Department in the Ministry of Health | |
| Heinz Keßler | 1946 | Central Committee member | Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Rudolf Kirchner | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of Department for Labor and Social Policy in the FDGB Federal Board | |
| Bernard Koenen | 1946 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED regional leadership in Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Wilhelm Koenen | 1946 | Central Committee member | Head of the Secretariat of the Provisional People's Chamber | |
| Walter Krebaum | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Head of the Agriculture Department at the Central Committee of the SED | Excluded from the party and thus also from the Central Committee at the 9th Central Committee meeting (July 8, 1952) |
| Adolf Kupke | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Farmer; Deputy Chairman of the VdgB State Board Brandenburg | |
| Hans Lauter | 1950 | Secretary of the Central Committee, responsible for culture | ||
| Fritz Lange | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Central Commission for State Control | |
| Helmut Lehmann | 1946 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the Central Board of Social Insurance in the GDR | |
| Bruno Leuschner | 1950 | Central Committee member | State Secretary and 1st Deputy Minister for Planning | |
| Friedrich Leutwein | 1950 | Central Committee member | Rector of the Bergakademie Freiberg | |
| Karl Litke | 1946 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of Department in the Ministry of Labor and Health | |
| Ernst Lohagen | 1946 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED regional leadership in Saxony | excluded from the Central Committee at the 8th Central Committee meeting (February 21-23, 1952) |
| Hermann Matern | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | Chairman of the Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK9 of the SED) | |
| Karl Mewis | 1950/1952 | Candidate of the Central Committee Member of the Central Committee |
Secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED state leadership in Mecklenburg | confirmed as a member of the Central Committee at the 8th Central Committee meeting (February 21-23, 1952) |
| Erich Mielke | 1950 | Central Committee member | State Secretary and Deputy Minister for State Security | |
| Carl Moltmann | 1946 | Central Committee member | President of the state parliament of Mecklenburg | |
| Erich Mückenberger | 1950 | Politburo candidate | 1. Secretary of the SED regional leadership in Thuringia | |
| Gerhard Neukranz | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the FDJ regional leadership in Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Fred Oelßner | 1947 | Member of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee, responsible for propaganda |
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| Wilhelm Pieck | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | President of the GDR | |
| Alois Pisnik | 1950 | Central Committee member | Secretary in the SED state executive committee for Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Heinrich Rau | 1950 | Member of the Politburo | Minister of Planning | |
| Willy hull | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance | |
| Erich Rutha | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Wedding | |
| Willi Sägebrecht | 1946 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED state leadership in Brandenburg | |
| Karl Schirdewan | 1953 | Central Committee member | Head of the Western Department at the Central Committee of the SED | co-opted into the Central Committee at the 15th Central Committee meeting (July 24–26, 1953) |
| Hermann Schlimme | 1946 | Central Committee member | 2nd chairman of the FDGB board for Greater Berlin | |
| Elli Schmidt | 1946 | Politburo candidate | Chairwoman of the federal executive committee of the DFD | |
| Otto Schön | 1950 | Secretary of the Central Committee | 2. Secretary of the SED regional leadership in Saxony | |
| Helmut Scholz | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Train driver, activist | |
| Gretl Schuster | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | ||
| Kurt Seibt | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Secretary of the SED state leadership in Brandenburg | |
| Kate Selbmann | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Women's Department at the Central Committee of the SED | |
| Karl Steinhoff | 1949 | Central Committee member | Minister of the Interior of the GDR; Professor of Administrative Law at the HUB | |
| Wolfgang Steinke | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of department in the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Willi Stoph | 1950 | Secretary of the Central Committee | Head of the Office for Economic Affairs at the GDR Council of Ministers | |
| Paul Sztop | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Neubauer | |
| Walter Ulbricht | 1946 | 1st Secretary of the Central Committee Member of the Politburo |
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| Fritz Uschner | 1950 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 2. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg | at the 13th Central Committee meeting (May 13-14, 1953) from the party and thus excluded from the Central Committee |
| Paul Verner | 1950 | Secretary of the Central Committee, responsible for all-German issues | ||
| Kurt Vieweg | 1949 | Secretary of the Central Committee, responsible for agricultural issues | ||
| Paul change | 1946 | Central Committee member | Minister for Popular Education | |
| Hans Warnke | 1946 | Central Committee member | State Secretary in the Interior Ministry of the GDR | |
| Herbert Warnke | 1949 | Secretary of the Central Committee; Chairman of the Free German Trade Union Federation | ||
| Otto winemaker | 1950 | Central Committee member | State Secretary and head of the private chancellery of the President of the GDR Wilhelm Pieck | |
| Erich Wirth | 1950/1952 | Candidate of the Central Committee Member of the Central Committee |
Lathe operator | confirmed as a member of the Central Committee at the 8th Central Committee meeting (February 21-23, 1952) |
| Wilhelm Zaisser | 1950 | Member of the Politburo | Minister for State Security | excluded from the Central Committee at the 15th Central Committee meeting (July 24-26, 1953) |
| Gerhart Ziller | 1953 | Secretary of the Central Committee for Economic Policy, Minister for Heavy Machinery of the GDR | co-opted into the Central Committee at the 15th Central Committee meeting (July 24–26, 1953) | |
Individual evidence
- ^ ND of January 24, 1954 p. 1
- ↑ a b c ND of May 16, 1953 p. 1
- ↑ a b c d e ND of July 28, 1953 p. 1
- ↑ DY 30 / IV 2/2/219 Protocol No. 119 of the Politburo
- ↑ a b c ND of February 24, 1952 p. 1
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 .
