List of members and candidates of the Central Committee of the SED after VI. Party congress
This list gives an overview of those on the VI. SED party congress (January 15-21, 1963) 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 | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Abusch | 1957 | Central Committee member | Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
| Heinz Adameck | 1963 | Central Committee member | Director of German television broadcasting | |
| Hans Albrecht | 1954/1963 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the Council of the Frankfurt / Oder District | |
| Erich Apel | 1958/1960 | Politburo candidate | Chairman of the State Planning Commission Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
Died by suicide on December 3, 1965 |
| Hermann Axen | 1949 | Politburo candidate | Editor-in-chief of the SED central organ New Germany | |
| Julius Balkow | 1963 | Central Committee member | Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade | |
| Kurt Barthel | 1950/1954 | Central Committee member | writer | |
| Karl-Heinz Bartsch | 1963 | Politburo candidate | Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Registration and Forestry | Expelled from the party on February 9, 1961 because of a concealed SS past |
| Bruno Baum | 1958 | Central Committee member | Secretary for economics of the SED district leadership in Potsdam | |
| Edith Baumann | 1946 | Central Committee member | ||
| Hugo Baumgart | 1954 | Central Committee member | Fitter in the Karl Liebknecht factory in Magdeburg | |
| Bruno Beater | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Minister for State Security, Major General | |
| Hilde Benjamin | 1954 | Central Committee member | Minister of Justice | |
| Helene Berg | 1954/1958 | Central Committee member | Member of the editorial board of the magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism | |
| Rolf Berger | 1963 | Central Committee member | Deputy Chairman of the Federal Board of the FDGB | |
| Fritz Bonisch | 1954 | Central Committee member | Plant manager of the Geiseltal lignite works | |
| Alois groom | 1958 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Erfurt | |
| Edith Brandt | 1954 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Wittenberg | |
| Horst Brasch | 1963 | Central Committee member | Vice-President and Chairman of the Bureau of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front | |
| Willi Bredel | 1954 | Central Committee member | President of the German Academy of the Arts | died on October 27, 1964 |
| Otto Buchwitz | 1946 | Central Committee member | Honorary President of the DRK of the GDR | died on July 9, 1964 |
| Max Burghardt | 1954/1959 | Central Committee member | President of the German Cultural Association | |
| Renate Credo | 1963 | Central Committee member | Plant manager VEB Kali-Chemie Berlin | |
| Franz Dahlem | 1946-1953 / 1957 | Central Committee member | 1. Deputy State Secretary for Higher Education and Technical Education | |
| Fritz Dallmann | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairman of the LPG Priborn | |
| Ernst Diehl | 1963 | Central Committee member | Lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED | |
| Johannes Döhler | 1963 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the LPG Dahlen | |
| Rudolf Dolling | 1958 | Central Committee member | GDR ambassador to the GDR | |
| Horst Dohlus | 1950/1963 | Central Committee member | Head of the party organs department of the Central Committee | |
| Friedrich Ebert | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | Lord Mayor of East Berlin | |
| Luise Ermisch | 1954 | Central Committee member | Operations manager at VEB clothing factory in Mühlhausen | |
| Hans-Georg Ernst | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chief of Military District III of the NVA, Major General | |
| Georg Ewald | 1963 | Politburo candidate | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Neubrandenburg | |
| Manfred Ewald | 1963 | Central Committee member | President of the DTSB | |
| Kurt Eydam | 1954 | Central Committee member | Master in the VEB module Karl-Marx-Stadt | |
| Werner Felfe | 1954/1963 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district | |
| Martin Fischer | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Smelter in the Freital stainless steel plant | |
| Peter Florin | 1954/1958 | Central Committee member | Head of the Foreign Policy and International Relations Department of the Central Committee | |
| Paul Fröhlich | 1954/1958 | Member of the Politburo | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Leipzig | |
| Gerhard Frost | 1954/1958 | Central Committee member | 2. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Halle | |
| Otto Funke | 1958/1963 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl | |
| Ernst Gallerach | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Deputy of the plant manager VEB Carl Zeiss Jena | |
| Heinz Geggel | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of department in the Central Committee | |
| Michael Gehring | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Minister of Health | |
| Walter Gorrish | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | writer | |
| Otto Gotsche | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Secretary of the State Council of the GDR | |
| Otto Grotewohl | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR | died on September 21, 1964 |
| Gerhard Grüneberg | 1958 | Candidate of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee Member of the Politburo |
Minister and member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the GDR | elected a member of the Politburo at the 15th Central Committee meeting on September 15, 1966 |
| Bernhard Grünert | 1954 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the LPG Worin | |
| Lea Grundig | 1963 | Central Committee member | Graphic artist and painter | |
| Kurt Hager | 1950/1954 | Member of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee |
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| Werner Hager | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of Research at VVB Mineral Oils and Organic Raw Materials Halle | |
| Gerhard Heidenreich | 1950/1963 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in the MfS | |
| Gotthard Heinrich | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Registration and Forestry | |
| Horst Heintze | 1963 | Central Committee member | Secretary in the FDGB federal board | |
| Eva Hempel | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Adolf Hennecke | 1954 | Central Committee member | Research assistant in the State Planning Commission | |
| Richard Herber | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Party secretary of the party organization at the Central Committee of the SED and Central Committee department head | |
| Hans-Joachim Hertwig | 1954 | Central Committee member | Secretary of the central management of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann | |
| Werner Heynisch | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Director of the Institute for Industrial and Civil Engineering in Leipzig | |
| Johannes Hörnig | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Science Department at the Central Committee of the SED | |
| Heinz Hoffmann | 1950/1954 | Central Committee member | Minister for National Defense | |
| Gerda Holzmacher | 1950 | Central Committee member | Chair of the District Party Control Commission Gera | |
| Erich Honecker | 1946 | Member of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee |
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| Margot Honecker | 1950/1963 | Central Committee member | Deputy Minister for Popular Education | |
| Hans Jackel | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Director of the Mathematical Institute of the University of Mechanical Engineering Karl-Marx-Stadt | |
| Werner Jarowinsky | 1963 | Candidate of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee |
1. Deputy Minister for Trade and Supply | |
| Hans Jendretzky | 1946-1953 / 1957 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the Central Commission for State Control | |
| Heinz Juch | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Member of the Central Party Control Commission | |
| Peter Kamps | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Graduate engineer and chief designer at VEB Bergmann-Borsig | |
| Karl Kayser | 1963 | Central Committee member | General director of the Leipzig City Theater | |
| Katharina Kern | 1946 | Central Committee member | Head of Department in the Ministry of Health | |
| Heinz Keßler | 1946 | Central Committee member | Deputy Minister for National Defense | |
| Hans Kiefer | 1954 | Central Committee member | 2. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin | died on December 29, 1966 |
| Rainer Knolle | 1958 | Central Committee member | 2. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Gera | |
| Bernard Koenen | 1946 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Halle | died on April 30, 1964 |
| Wilhelm Koenen | 1946 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the GDR Interparliamentary Group | died on October 19, 1963 |
| Gerhard Kosel | 1958 | Central Committee member | President of the German Building Academy | |
| Erwin Kramer | 1954 | Central Committee member | Minister of Transport | |
| Werner Krolikowski | 1963 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Dresden | |
| Karl Kruger | 1954 | Central Committee member | Instructor at the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Freital | |
| Werner Krußk | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | District school council in Schwarzenberg | |
| Alfred Kurella | 1958 | Central Committee member | ||
| Karl Kuron | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1st chairman of the FDGB district board in Erfurt | |
| Werner Lamberz | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Member of the office of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Erich Lange | 1963 | Central Committee member | Director of the Ehrenberg High School | |
| Ernst Lange | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Trade, Supply and Foreign Trade Department of the SED Central Committee | |
| Inge Lange | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the working group women of the Central Committee | |
| Marianne Lange | 1963 | Central Committee member | Head of department at the party college Karl Marx | |
| Rudolf Lappe | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Professor at the TU Dresden | |
| Walter Lassak | 1963 | Central Committee member | Party secretary in the VEB combine harvester plant in Weimar | |
| Robert Lehmann | 1958 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann | |
| Bruno Leuschner | 1950 | Member of the Politburo | Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | died on February 10, 1965 |
| Bruno Lietz | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Secretary for Agriculture of the SED district leadership in Rostock | |
| Lorenz Lochthofen | 1963 | Central Committee member | Plant manager VEB Büromaschinenwerk Sömmerda | |
| Siegbert Löschau | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Plant manager of the VEB Leuna-Werke Walter Ulbricht | |
| Hans Dieter Mäde | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Artistic director, director and dramaturge | |
| Martin Margrave | 1963 | Central Committee member | Main director of the VVB control engineering, device construction and optics | |
| Karl Marron | 1954 | Central Committee member | Minister of the Interior | |
| Hans-Joachim Marschner | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Commander of the first missile unit of the NVA, lieutenant colonel | |
| Hermann Matern | 1946 | Member of the Politburo | Deputy to the President of the People's Chamber | |
| Heinz Matthes | 1963 | Central Committee member | Secretary for the economy of the SED district leadership in Dresden | |
| Heinz Meier | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Secretary in the central board of IG Metall | |
| Frido Meinhardt | 1954 | Central Committee member | Secretary of the Works Party Organization of the Eastern Ironworks Combine | |
| Karl Mewis | 1950/1954 | Central Committee member | ||
| Ernst Hermann Meyer | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Professor of Music at the HUB | |
| Erich Mielke | 1950 | Central Committee member | Minister for State Security | |
| Hans-Peter Minetti | 1958 | Candidate of the Central Committee | DEFA actor | |
| Günter noon | 1958/1962 | Candidate of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee Member of the Politburo |
elected a member of the Politburo at the 15th Central Committee meeting on September 15, 1966 | |
| Hans Modrow | 1958 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Köpenick | |
| Erich Mückenberger | 1950 | Member of the Politburo | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt / Oder | |
| Margarete Müller | 1963 | Politburo candidate | Chairwoman of the LPG Kotelow | |
| Fritz Mueller | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Central Committee's Management Issues Department | |
| Fritz Mueller | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairman of the Central Board of the Land and Forestry Union | |
| Konrad Naumann | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Werner Neugebauer | 1954 | Central Committee member | Head of the Department of Popular Education at the Central Committee | |
| Alfred Neumann | 1954 | Member of the Politburo | Chairman of the Economics Council | |
| Gerhart Neuner | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the German Central Pedagogical Institute | |
| Albert North | 1955 | Member of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee |
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| Wolfgang Oerter | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Sector Head in the Ministry of Health | |
| Alois Pisnik | 1950 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg | |
| Anton Plenikowski | 1954 | Candidate of the Central Committee | State Secretary and Head of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers | |
| Hermann Poeschel | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the research, technical development and investment policy working group at the Central Committee | |
| Günter Prey | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Director of the Guben man-made fiber combine | |
| Bernhard Quandt | 1958 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Schwerin | |
| Karl Rieke | 1963 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the LPG Rogäsen | |
| Hans Rodenberg | 1954 | Central Committee member | Deputy Minister for Culture | |
| Kurt Rödiger | 1963 | Central Committee member | Chief Director of VVB Kali Erfurt | |
| Robert Rompe | 1958 | Central Committee member | Director of the 2nd Physics Institute at the HUB | |
| Paul Roscher | 1963 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Gera | |
| Erich Rübensam | 1954/1963 | Central Committee member | Deputy Head of the Agriculture Department of the Central Committee | |
| Willy hull | 1950/1963 | Central Committee member | Minister of Finance | |
| Helmut Sakowski | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | writer | |
| Wolfgang Schirmer | 1954 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the DAW | |
| Otto Schön | 1950 | Central Committee member | Head of the Politburo Office of the Central Committee of the SED | |
| Helmut Scholz | 1950/1963 | Central Committee member | Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Transport | died on March 20, 1967 |
| Walter Schröder | 1954 | Central Committee member | Director of the special workshop at MTS Anklam | |
| Gerhard Schürer | 1963 | Central Committee member | Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission | |
| Horst Schumann | 1958/1959 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ | |
| Heinz Schwarz | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairman of the District Economic Council of the Halle district | |
| Kurt Seibt | 1950/1954 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Potsdam | |
| Horst Sindermann | 1958/1963 | Politburo candidate | Head of the agitation department of the Central Committee | |
| Willi Skibinski | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairman of the LPG Oschersleben | |
| Horst Sölle | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | State Secretary and Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade | |
| Frieda Sternberg | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairwoman of the LPG Bennewitz | ||
| Albert Stief | 1960/1963 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district management in Cottbus | |
| Willi Stoph | 1950 | Member of the Politburo | 1. Deputy to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR | |
| Hermann Storch | 1958 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the union management in VEB Kalikombinat Ernst Thälmann in Merkers | |
| Paul Strauss | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Master in VEB Housing Combine Rostock | |
| Josef quarrel | 1963 | Central Committee member | Attorney General of the GDR | |
| Use Thiele | 1954 | Central Committee member | Chairwoman of the federal executive committee of the DFD | |
| Kurt Thieme | 1958 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Mitte | |
| Karl Thoma | 1958 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chairman of the LPG Berlstedt | |
| Kurt Tiedke | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee | |
| Harry table | 1963 | Central Committee member | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Rostock | |
| Herbert Traut | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Chief Director of VVB Glas Großbreitenbach | |
| Walter Ulbricht | 1946 | 1st Secretary of the Central Committee Member of the Politburo |
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| Maxim Vallentin | 1963 | Central Committee member | Director of the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin | |
| Paul Verner | 1950 | Member of the Politburo Secretary of the Central Committee |
1. Secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin | |
| Waldemar Verner | 1954/1963 | Central Committee member | Head of the Political Headquarters of the NVA | |
| Günther Waak | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Director of VEG Staven | |
| Elisabeth Walther | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Plant manager VEB Strumpfwerke Esda | |
| Hans Warnke | 1946 | Central Committee member | Head of the Rostock port administration | |
| Herbert Warnke | 1949 | Member of the Politburo | Chairman of the Federal Board of the FDGB | |
| Friedrich Wehmer | 1954 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the central board of the VdgB | died on February 7, 1964 |
| Herbert Weiz | 1958 | Central Committee member | State Secretary in the State Secretariat for Research and Technology | |
| Rudi Wekker | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Head of the Technology Sector in the Electrical Engineering Department of the National Economic Council | |
| Josef Little | 1954 | Central Committee member | Director of Labor at SDAG Wismut | |
| Friedrich Wesselburg | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Operations director at VEB Walzwerk Hettstedt | |
| Otto winemaker | 1950 | Central Committee member | State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| Erich Wirth | 1950/1954 | Central Committee member | Head of the district cabinet for innovation in the Dresden district | |
| Heinz Wittig | 1958/1959 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the LPG Kauern | |
| Johann Wittik | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Deputy Chairman of the Economics Council | |
| Margarete Wittkowski | 1954/1958/1963 | Central Committee member | Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
| Christa Wolf | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Writer | |
| Ernst Wolf | 1958 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the Berlin Economic Council | |
| Hanna Wolf | 1954/1958 | Central Committee member | Director of the Karl Marx party college at the SED Central Committee | |
| Ernst Wulf | 1958/1963 | Central Committee member | Chairman of the LPG Schulenberg | |
| Günter Wyschofsky | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission | |
| Herbert Ziegenhahn | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | 1. Secretary of the SED district leadership Dessau | |
| Max Zimmering | 1963 | Candidate of the Central Committee | writer |
Changes
Compared to 1958, the Central Committee was enlarged from 155 to 181 functionaries. 16% of the Central Committee members were elected to the Central Committee for the first time. 87% of the candidates for the Central Committee were newly elected. 36% of the members and candidates elected in 1958 were not re-elected.
Overview of the not re-elected members and candidates of the Central Committee
statistics
| category | number | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Central Committee members | 121 | |
| new ZK members | 29 | |
| Central Committee candidates | 60 | |
| new ZK candidates | 52 | |
| Candidates appointed to the Central Committee | 13 | |
| Central Committee members not confirmed again | 38 | |
| Central Committee candidates not confirmed again | 19th |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 22, 1963 p. 3
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 .
