List of the Central Committee departments and their department heads

The list of the Central Committee departments and their department heads contains an overview of the approximately 40 departments of the Central Committee of the SED .

The departments were assigned to the ten or so Central Committee secretaries . Each department was headed by a department head and his deputy. Each department was divided into sectors with sector managers, (political) employees and instructors. In 1970 the departments still had around 1,000 employees, by 1987 it was 2,000.

The department heads and sector heads did not officially have authority to issue directives to the state ministries (this lay with the Central Committee secretaries), but they usually made the decisions.

Overview

The sorting order follows the "organizational scheme of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED" (status: 1989).

Cadre :
Fritz Müller (1960–90), also from 1979 to 1989 1st Secretary of the SED-GO in the Central Committee

Transport :
Richard Stahlmann (1949–54)
Adolf Baier (1954–65)
Josef Steidl (1965–85)
Julius Cebulla (1985–1989)
Gunter Rettner (1989)

International connections :
Grete Keilson (1950–52)
Peter Florin (1952–66)
Paul Markowski (1966–78)
Egon Winkelmann (1978–80)
Günter Sieber (1980–89)

International politics and economics :
Heinz Geggel (1963–72)
Herbert Häber (1973–85)
Gunter Rettner (1985–89), Deputy. Harry Morgenstern; assigned to the IPW institute of the same name

International information (from 1967):
Manfred Feist (1967–89)

Party organs :
Werner Guse (1959–60)
Horst Dohlus (1960–86, from 1973 also secretary of the Central Committee)
Heinz Mirtschin (1986–89)

Financial administration and party operations :
Karl Raab (1950–82)
Heinz Wildenhain (1982–89)

Management of commercial operations :
Walter Heibich (1958–64)
Günter Glende (1964–89)

Sciences :
Kurt Hager (1952–55)
Johannes Hörnig (1955–89)

Culture :
Egon Rentzsch (1950–53)
Hans Riesner (1957)
Siegfried Wagner (1957–66)
Arno Hochmuth (1966–72)
Hans-Joachim Hoffmann (1971–73)
Peter Heldt (1973–75)
Ursula Ragwitz (1976–89 )

Public education :
Werner Neugebauer (1955–63)
Lothar Oppermann (1963–89)

Health policy (from 1959):
Werner Hering (1959–81)
Karl Seidel (1981–89)

Agriculture :
Rudolf Reutter (1946–1950)
Ernst Hansch (1950)
Walter Krebaum (1950–1951)
Albert Schäfer (1951–1953)
Friedrich Hecht (1953–54)
Franz Mellentin (1954–58)
Wolfgang Parske (1958–59)
Karl Götz (1959)
Bruno Kiesler (1959–81)
Bruno Lietz (1981–82)
Helmut Semmelmann (1982–89)

Agitation and propaganda (until 1963):
Horst Sindermann (1954–63)

Agitation :
Robert Korb (1949–51)
Rudi Singer (1963–66)
Werner Lamberz (1966–71)
Hans Modrow (1971–73)
Heinz Geggel (1973–89)

Propaganda :
Kurt Hager (1949–52) (from 1954 to 1957 part of the Science and Propaganda Department)
Kurt Tiedke (1961–79)
Klaus Gäbler (1979–89)

Friendly parties and organizations :
Irene Köhler (1962–69)
Waldemar Pilz (1969–85)
Karl Vogel (1985–89)

Trade and supply / trade, supply and foreign trade :
Ernst Lange (1953–66)
Hilmar Weiß (1967–89)

Church issues (initially department, later working group):
Willi Barth (1954–77)
Rudi Bellmann (1977–88)
Peter Kraußer (1988–89)
General department (initially department, later working group, integrated into International Relations Department in 1984):
Else Richter (1946–49)
Martha Golke (1949–72)
Werner Albrecht (1972–81)
Ilse Stephan (1981–1984)

Security issues :
Gustav Röbelen (1949–56)
Walter Borning (1956–72)
Herbert Scheibe (1972–85)
Wolfgang Herger (1985–89)
Peter Miethe (1989)

State and legal issues :
Klaus Sorgenicht (1954–89, also member of the State Council)
Günter Böhme (1989)

Youth :
Siegfried Lorenz (1966–76)
Wolfgang Herger (1976–85)
Gerd Schulz (1985–89)

Physical culture and sport / sport (working group until 1965):
Rudolf Hellmann (1960–89)

Planning and finances :
Helmut Sandig (1954–55)
Fritz Müller (1955–60)
Gerhard Schürer (1960–62)
Siegfried Böhm (1962–1966)
Karl Hengst (1966–69)
Erich Wappler (1969–74)
Günter Ehrensperger (1974 -89)

Research and technical development (initially working group):
Hermann Pöschel (1961–89)

Industry / coal, mining, energy and chemistry / basic industry :
Eberhard Arlt (1951–53)
Paul Kraszon (1953–54)
Berthold Handwerker (1955–59)
Günther Wyschofsky (1959–62)
Karl-Heinz Schäfer (1962–65)
Hilmar Tröger (1965–69)
Horst Wambutt (1969–89)

Mechanical engineering and metallurgy :
Heinz Thiele
Friedrich Zeiler (1954–55)
Heinrich Müller (1955–57)
Friedrich Zeiler (1958–61)
Werner Weiß
Fritz Brock (1962–63)
Gerhard Tautenhahn (1964–86, from 1985 also head of the key technology management group )

Construction :
Alfred Schwanz (1954–59)
Gerhard Trölitzsch (1960–89)

Light, food and district-run industry :
Paul Sonnenburg (1958–62)
Gerhard Briksa (1962–72)
Hans-Joachim Rüscher (1972–86)
Manfred Voigt (1986–89)

Railways, traffic and communications / transport and communications :
Günter Mittag (1953–58)
Volkmar Winkler (1958–62)
Hubert Egemann (1962–87)
Dieter Wöstenfeld (1987–89)

Trade unions, social and health services (until 1962):
Fritz Schellhorn (1954–57)
Fritz Rettmann (1957–62)

Trade unions and social policy (from 1962):
Josef Steidl (1962–65)
Fritz Brock (1965–89)

Socialist economic management :
Günther Jahn (1965–66)
Carl-Heinz Janson (1967–89)
- Assigned to the institute of the same name in Berlin-Rahnsdorf: Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management :
  Helmut Koziolek (1966–89), Director

Women :
Edith Baumann (1955–61)
Hilde Krasnogolowy (1959–61)
Ingeburg Lange (1961–89)

literature

Heike Amos: Politics and organization of the SED headquarters 1949–1963: Structure and functioning of the Politburo, Secretariat, Central Committee and Central Committee apparatus . Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6187-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Modrow (Ed.): Das Großes Haus , Berlin 1994, p. 34.
↑ Conspiratorial department, responsible for courier services, etc.
↑ Peter Erler, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Karl Raab . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
↑ Bernd-Rainer Barth: Gustav Röbelen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

[1] Hans Modrow (Ed.): Das Großes Haus , Berlin 1994, p. 34.

[2] Conspiratorial department, responsible for courier services, etc.

[3] Peter Erler, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Karl Raab . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

[4] Bernd-Rainer Barth: Gustav Röbelen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .