List of abbreviations (DDR)

The list of GDR-typical abbreviations , which is understood as an alphabetical collection, contains abbreviations for terms that come from governmental and non-governmental institutions, everyday things and various areas of society. The abbreviations represent a part of the linguistic usage in the GDR .

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

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• AAK - Foreign Trade Accounting Office Berlin (1949)
• AAK - Field Work Command (in prison)
• AASK - Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee from 1963, the successor organization to the "Committee for Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa" ​​founded in 1960
• AB - plant construction
• AB - work area
• AbA - General conditions for connecting railways
• ABAO - work and fire protection order
• ABF - Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Faculty : Faculty for workers and peasants' children to acquire university entrance qualifications from 1949
• ABI - Workers and Peasants Inspection : from 1963 onwards it was subordinate to the Central Committee of the SED and the Council of Ministers of the GDR
• ABUS - state-owned company for the equipment of mining and heavy industry based in Merseburg, Oberaltenburg 4 (1953)
• ABV - Section authorized representative of the People's Police who served as a contact person for a specific, limited (residential) area
• ACZ - Agrochemical Center , facility that provided LPG's technology and material for fertilization and pest control
• ADGV - General German Deaf Association, founded in Halle in 1957, renamed GSV in 1973
• AdK - Academy of Arts (Berlin)
• AdL - Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR from 1972 to 1991
• ADMV - General German Motorsport Association of the GDR from 1957 to 1990
• ADN - General German News Service , the first news agency in Germany founded in 1946
• AdW - Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1972
• AE - measure for the unit of work in agriculture - this was used to measure the share of the performance of each member of a cooperative in the total product produced and thus the basis for the income of the work performance
• ÄBK - Medical Advisory Commission
• AeO - Working Group of Former Officers from 1958 to 1971
• AF - Workers' Festival (1959–1988)
• AfdE - Committee for German Unity from 1954
• AfEP - Office for Inventions and Patents
• AfG - Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED from 1976 to 1990
• AfI - Office for Information from 1949 at the Prime Minister of the GDR - later press office at the chairman of the MR
• AfNS - Office for National Security - Successor to the MfS until December 14, 1989
• AfP - Office for prices at the MR from 1965 to 1989
• AfS - Office for Standardization from 1954 to 1973 - then merged into the ASMW
• AG - working group
• AGB - Labor Code of the GDR
• AG BKK - Working group in the area of ​​commercial coordination (KoKo) from 1983 in the MfS
• AGCK - Working Group of Christian Churches in the GDR from 1970
• AGL - departmental union leadership in large companies, AGL-he was the chairman of the AGL.
• AGM - working group of the minister in the MfS
• AGO - departmental union organization
• AGO - Labor Court Code
• AGP - Association of Production Cooperatives
• AHB - foreign trade company in the GDR
• AIF - Office for Industrial Design , which awarded special awards for products: SL = top design achievement, GL = good design achievement
• AJA - Working Group of Young Authors
• AK - Current camera - news broadcast of the DFF
• LFS - labor unit - a male / female person who works at least 2100 hours per year. This applied to persons> 16 years and <65 years.
• AKG - evaluation and control group
• AKh - labor hour - one hour of manual labor of a fully capable AK
• ALB - General Terms and Conditions of Delivery and Services - Provisions in statutory regulations on the principles of the design of contractual conditions or between contractual partners
• ALCID - VVB ALCID Radebeul from 1948 to 1952 for companies in the inorganic chemistry, the tasks were then taken over by the VVB of the inorganic-chemical industry
• ANG costs - operational costs for technologically-related rejects, rework and guarantee obligations for products and services
• AöB - General Public Libraries
• A-Plan - a research plan of the AdW
• APO - departmental party organization - a basic organization of the SED
• APW - Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR from 1970 to 1991
• ASAO - Occupational Health and Safety Order
• ASB - occupational health and safety regulations
• ASG - Army Sports Association
• ASK - Army Sports Club
• ASMW - Office for Standardization, Metrology and Goods Testing
• ASPR - Automated systems of plan calculations
• ASR - Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR from 1972 in Potsdam-Babelsberg until 1990
• AST - task
• ASTM - Laboratory for Technical Microbiology of the AdW
• AStR - Labor Income Tax Directive
• ASV - Army Sports Association "Forward" from 1956
• ASVO - Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance of December 1, 1977 (Journal of Laws of I / 1977 No. 36 p. 405)
• ATG - Autotransportgemeinschaften - Entrepreneurs in the commercial goods traffic belonged to the ATGs, which steered the use of the goods traffic by trucks. In addition, there were ATG district offices in the districts of the GDR
• ATV - General tariff regulations for cargo traffic as part of the DBGT
• A&V - buying and selling, second-hand shop
• AWA - Establishment for the protection of the performance and reproduction rights in the field of music
• AWG - workers' housing cooperative
• AWS - planted silage
• AWH - workers' dormitory for housing workers, for example in industrial construction
• awig - Agricultural Society of the GDR (1960–1990)
• AZKW - Office for Customs and Control of Goods Movement

B.

Pause gymnastics in the operation of the vocational school VEG Wilmersdorf in the district Angermünde

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• BA - Mining Academy
• BAF - Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg
• BAO - Fire Protection Order, most recently effective through the Fire Protection Code of Conduct of June 8, 1982 (Journal of Laws of I / 1982 No. 29 p. 532)
• Baukema - VEB Kombinat "Baukema" Leipzig (Baukema: construction machines, complete systems and earthmoving machines)
• BBB - dredging, towing and salvage shipping company until 1991
• BBK - Berlin Bishops' Conference
• BBS - company vocational school
• BBZ - career counseling center
• BDA - Association of German Architects, from 1952, renamed BdA from 1971
• BdA - Association of Architects of the GDR from 1971
• BdDB - Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig - from 1946 as an association of publishers and booksellers in the GDR
• BDP - District Directorate of the DP
• BDS - Bund Deutscher Segler in the professional association of the DTSB from 1958
• BDVP - District Authority of the German People's Police (BDVP (B) - with company protection Wismut)
• BE - Unit (s) of the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR
• BEK - Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR from 1969
• BEK - Company development and construction office
• BFD - Bezirksfilmdirektion (organization for the distribution of films for cinemas)
• BfN - Office for Innovation in Companies and Combines
• BG - Biological Society of the GDR (1959–1990)
• BGL - company union management
• BGO - company union organization
• BGW - VEB Berliner Glühlampenwerk "Rosa Luxemburg", part of VEB Narva
• BHG - Rural trading cooperative , facility for the sale of agricultural products, tools and building materials
• BHT coke - high temperature lignite coke
• BHuG - banks for trade and commerce 1946 to 1952, then taken over by DBB
• BHZ - Berlin Food Trade Center, based in Berlin, Wallstrasse 23-24 (1953)
• BIK - Brandenburg Industrial Office (1949)
• BK - Berlin Conference (Catholic Christians from European States), from 1964
• BKdAW - district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters
• BKG - District Coordination Group (of the MfS)
• BKV - company collective agreement
• BKW - brown coal works
• BL - management
• BLN - Bank for Agriculture and Food Industry, from 1968
• BLWR - District Economic Council
• BMK - construction and assembly combine
• BMSR technology - industrial measurement , control and regulation technology
• BOK - Berlin Ordinarienkonferenz (of the Roman Catholic Church in the GDR)
• BP - operating price as a component of the industrial price (IAP), which was based on the calculations of industrial prices.
• BPK - District Planning Commission, from 1961
• BPKK - District Party Control Commission
• BPL - party leadership
• BPO - company party organization
• BPS - District Party School
• BR - Library Council
• BS - Construction soldier , member of the building units of the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR
• BSG - company sports association
• BSI - District School Inspection
• BSV - Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in the GDR, from 1957
• BT - District Day
• BTI - District Animal Breeding Inspectorate
• BUT - inland port handling tariff
• BuV - Federal Executive of the FDGB
• BV - Library Association of the GDR
• BV - District Board
• BVfS - District Administration for State Security (also only BV )
• BWR - District Economic Council, from 1963
• BZ - Berliner Zeitung
• BZA - Biological Central Institute of the DAL with the central office in Berlin-Kleinmachnow and the institutes in Aschersleben and Naumburg
• BZF - brake cylinder grease "Boluskol"

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• CFK - Christian Peace Conference in the GDR 1958–1992
• CG - Chemical Society of the GDR
• CKB - VE Chemical Combine Bitterfeld

D.

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• DA - service instructions
• DABA - German Foreign Trade Bank from 1966
• DAG - German Astronautical Society
• DAHA - German Foreign Trade Berlin - an institution under public law from 1949 to 1951, then as DIA
• DAL - German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin (founded by the establishment resolution of the government of the GDR on January 11, 1951, Journal of Laws of p. 29); Renamed AdL in 1972
• DAMG - German Office for Weights and Measures (1949)
• DAMW - German Office for Material and Goods Testing
• DANAT - data storage for nature conservation at the Institute for Landscape Research and Nature Conservation Halle
• DARAG - German foreign and reinsurance stock corporation
• DASR - German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg until 1972
• DAV - German Angler Association
• DAW - German Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1946 to 1972
• DB - German Library Leipzig
• DBB - Deutsche Bauernbank until 1965, then as an agricultural bank, from 1968 BLN
• DBD - Democratic Peasant Party of Germany
• DBGT - German inland waterway freight tariff
• DBO - German building regulations
• DBV - German Basketball Association
• DBSV - German Billiards Sports Association of the GDR from 1958
• DBSV - German Archery Association of the GDR from 1959
• DBV - German Boxing Association from 1958
• DBV - German Basketball Association of the GDR from 1958
• DBV - German Directory of Books
• DCV - German Caritas Association in the GDR from 1946
• DdZ - Documentation of Time - a magazine published by the German Institute for Contemporary History ; German Fertilizer Center (1949)
• DE - service unit (police or MfS)
• DEFA - DEFA - Deutsche Film AG
• DEGT - German rail freight tariff from July 1, 1958
• DELV - German Ice Skating Association of the GDR from 1958
• DEPT - German rail passenger, luggage and express freight tariff
• DER - German travel agency from 1957, renamed VEB travel agency of the GDR from 1964
• DERUTRA AG - German-Russian Transport AG (1949–1954)
• DETT - German railway animal tariff until June 1, 1958, then replaced by DEGT
• DEWAG - German advertising and advertising company - a centrally managed company for the entire GDR that existed from 1945
• DfA - implementation instructions
• DFD - Democratic Women's Association of Germany
• DFF - German television radio of the GDR
• DFV - German Fistball Association of the GDR from 1958 - also: German Fencing Association from 1958, German Badminton Association from 1958, German Football Association of the GDR from 1958
• DGP - German Border Police from May 1952
• DGS - German large silver rabbit as a valuable rabbit breed
• DGSV - German Deaf Sports Association of the GDR from 1958
• DGV - German Weightlifting Association from 1958
• DHB - Deutsche Handelsbank (1956-2001) ; Deutsche Handelsbank AG
• DHfK - German University for Physical Culture
• DHSV - German Hockey Sports Association from 1958
• DHV - German handball association from 1958
• DHZ - German trading center
• DIA - German domestic and foreign trade - a state-owned trading company of the GDR
• DIAMAT - Dialectical Materialism
• DIB - German Investment Bank 1948–1968
• DIZ - German Institute for Contemporary History
• DJV - German Judo Association from 1958
• DK - diesel fuel; Decimal classification in the documentation system of the IfD
• DKSV - German Canoe Sports Association from 1958
• DKT - German motor vehicle tariff
• DKV - German bowling association from 1958
• DL - a term for long-term performance sows with> 100 piglets in the pig performance book (SL)
• DLH - Deutsche Lufthansa (renamed Interflug on September 18, 1958 )
• DLK - service combine
• DLO - Service career regulations
• DLZ - German teacher newspaper
• DMH - Urgent Medical Aid, later renamed SMH
• DNA - German Standards Committee (1949)
• DNB - German Central Bank from 1948 to 1968 - Successor: State Bank of the GDR
• DOLV - German Orienteering Association (1990)
• DP - Deutsche Post 1945–1990
• DPA - German identity card, replaced by PA in the 1970s
• DPT - German railway passenger, luggage and express goods tariff in internal traffic in the GDR
• DPV - German Equestrian Association from 1961
• DPZI - German Central Pedagogical Institute from September 1, 1949
• DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn
• DRK - German Red Cross in the GDR
• DRSV - German Cycling Association of the GDR from 1958, German Rowing Sports Association from 1958, also: German Rugby Association from 1958
• DRV - German Wrestling Association from 1958, German Roller Sports Association from 1958
• DS - German Sports Committee 1948–1957
• DSB - German State Library Berlin
• DSBV - German sledge and bobsleigh association from 1958
• DSF - Society for German-Soviet Friendship ; Organization that should intensify the contact and friendship with the Soviet Union
• DSG-HB - German Seed Trading Companies - formed in 1956 from the German Seed Trading Center (DSG-HZ)
• DSLV - German Skier Association from 1958
• DSM - VEB German ship brokerage
• DSMF - German Sports Association - Modern pentathlon from 1959
• DSR - VEB Deutsche Seereederei from 1952 in Wismar
• DSRK - German Ship Revision and Classification
• DSSV - German Swimming Association from 1958
• DSVB - German Sports Association for Volleyball from 1958
• DSU - German shipping and transshipment companies
• DSV - German Chess Association
• DSV - German Writers' Association (1950–1973)
• DSV - German Rifle Association of the GDR (1958–1990)
• DSVB - German Volleyball Sports Association of the GDR from 1958
• DT64 - youth radio station of the GDR
• DTSB - Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund , central mass organization responsible for sport in the GDR
• DTV - German Tennis Association from 1958, also: German Gymnastics Association from 1958
• DTTV - German Table Tennis Association from 1958
• DV - service regulation
• DVA - German Administration Academy until 1953
• DVA - German Insurance Company (1952–1969), renamed in 1969 to “State Insurance of the GDR”
• DVdI - German Administration of the Interior
• DVfL - German Association for Athletics of the GDR
• DVfV - German Association for Disabled Sports of the GDR from 1959
• DVJ - German Administration for Justice
• DVK - German People's Congress
• DVP - German People's Police
• DVR - German People's Council
• DVV - German Administration for National Education from 1945 to 1947
• DVZG - German Central Administration for Health Care, formed by order of the SMAD of July 27, 1945 and incorporated into the DWK in June 1947.
• DWBO - German Association for Hiking, Mountaineering and Orienteering (from 1970)
• DWBV - German Hikers and Mountaineers Association (until 1970)
• DwE - German white precious pig
• DWI - German Economic Institute Berlin (1949–1971) - the tasks were taken over in 1971 by the IPW
• DWK - German Economic Commission from 1946 a steering body of the centrally managed economy
• DZA - German Central Archives (1949–1973)
• DZfPH - German magazine for philosophy
• DZVV - German Central Administration for National Education (see DVV )

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• EAW - Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert"
• EC product group
• EgH - monochrome yellow cattle - a name for a special breed of cattle (Franconian cattle, Glan-Donnersberger cattle, Lahn cattle, Limpurger cattle) for keeping in low mountain ranges in central Germany
• EGO - Calibration Fee Regulation
• EGT - natural gas route
• EKB - Electrochemical Combine Bitterfeld
• EKM - VVB of the energy and power machine construction based in Halle
• EKO - Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost
• EKRI - Standard Accounts Framework for Industry (1949) - Published in: ZVOBl. No. 58, p. 564 of November 26, 1948
• EKRL - Standard Accounting Framework for Agriculture (1949)
• EKU - Evangelical Church of the Union (Federation of Protestant Churches of the GDR)
• EL - Einstein Laboratory for Theoretical Physics of the AdW
• ELG - purchasing and supply cooperative of the craft from 1946
• ELN - product and service nomenclature - a key number made up of eight digits for all products and services produced domestically and imported from abroad
• EMAU - Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
• ENTSCH - mold oil "demolition"
• EOS - Extended Oberschule - School facility with the final goal of Abitur
• ESER - Uniform system of electronic computing technology
• ESP - Introduction to Socialist Production - School subject, included economics and technical physics; belonged together with productive work (PA) and technical mark (TZ) to the class day in socialist production (UTP)
• ET - electrical engineering
• ETT - Uniform Transit Tariff, a directory of prices for international freight transport by rail for the passage of certain socialist countries
• EV - preliminary investigation
• EVB - energy supply company
• EVP - retail sales price - also end consumer price or retail price , usually already printed on the goods by the manufacturer, since in the GDR there were only fixed prices that were set by the price office . Formerly the final consumer price VEP.
• EW - single-family home - standardized homes in different variations

F.

FDGB rest home "Solidarity" in Heringsdorf 1952

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• FAS - research institute for shipbuilding, hydraulic engineering and foundation engineering with departments in Berlin-Karlshorst and Potsdam
• FB - mobile library
• FDGB - Free German Trade Union Confederation
• FDJ - Free German Youth
• FE-AO - debt collection arrangement
• R / D - research and development
• Ffo - Frankfurt (Oder)
• FFSV - Flight and Parachute Sports Association of the GDR from 1987
• FGB - Family Code
• FGLB - gas pipeline construction ( formerly based in Leipzig (Engelsdorf) and Mittenwalde)
• FGS - fishing vehicle and equipment station in a contractual relationship with the FPG
• FIA - Research Institute for Processing of AdW
• FIFT - Research Institute for Textile Technology in Karl-Marx-Stadt
• FK - Forum of Criminology
• FKS - Research Institute for Physical Culture and Sport in Leipzig
• FL - heifer production - description of a milk production of so-called first-born cows at the first milk delivery (lactation)
• FLEI - flight price with domestic discounts for Interflug trips
• FPG - Fisheries production cooperative for sea and coastal fishermen
• FR - specialization
• FSCT - Research Center for Chemical Toxicology of the AdW
• FSHF - Research Center for High Pressure Research of the AdW
• FSPP - Research Center for Informational Photochemistry and Photophysics of the AdW
• FStW - radio patrol car
• FSU - Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• FSWF - Research Center for Vertebrate Research of the AdW
• FV - professional associations of the Chamber of Technology
• FWE - feed value unit - an evaluation of the feed with regard to the usable energy in the feed for the fat formation capacity to be achieved in the animal body, measured in kilocalories (kcal)
• FZR - voluntary supplementary pension insurance - pension insurance for incomes over 600 marks monthly earnings or 7200 marks annual earnings
• FZR-VO - Ordinance on the voluntary supplementary social insurance pension insurance of November 17, 1977 (Journal of Laws of I / 1977 No. 35 p. 395)

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• GAN - general contractor
• GAP - wholesale selling price, which was calculated from the industrial selling price (IAP) and the wholesale margin
• Garkreba - guarantee and credit bank in Berlin, house bank of the Soviet occupying power (until 1956)
• GAV - Social Work Assets, Data Collection of Skilled Occupations in order to enable administrative secondments in the event of a labor shortage (1975)
• GAZ - complete directory of foreign magazines
• GB - Community Library
• GBA - Labor Code of 1961, see Labor Code
• GBH - Society for business advice for trade in the GDR
• DG - Director General
• GDBH - Society of German Miners and Smelters
• GewB - commercial library
• GG - Geographical Society of the GDR (1953–1990)
• GGG - Law on Social Courts of March 25, 1982 (Journal of Laws of I / 1982 No. 13 p. 269)
• GGW - Society for Geological Sciences of the GDR (1954–1990)
• GH - Society for the entire hygiene of the GDR (1954–1990)
• GHB - wholesalers
• GHG - wholesale company
• GISAG - VEB Kombinat foundry plant construction and cast products Leipzig
• GKA - utility cost analysis , an analytical method for determining product manufacture from R / D to product sales
• GKS - A secret matter of command
• GKT - Freight Transport Tariff , a directory of transport prices
• GKT - Rubber Combine Thuringia (Gotha, Waltershausen, Tabarz)
• GK beet - green-headed beet as a special breed of sugar beet
• GKV - Secret college template
• GLD - joint line service of VEB DSR in Rostock with foreign shipping companies
• GMG - Design Law, cf. Design Act (law relating to copyright in designs) of January 11, 1876, which continued to be valid in the GDR
• GMS - Social Employee Security of the MfS
• Gene. - Comrade - salutation within the SED and in the army, otherwise almost exclusive salutation in the police and the MfS
• Genex - Gift Service and Small Exports GmbH - mail order business for goods mainly produced in the GDR, which were only available for foreign currency and could only be sent to recipients in the GDR from the "non-socialist economic area"
• GNH - Society "Neue Heimat" - Association in the GDR for the connection with citizens of German origin abroad (1964–1989)
• GNU - Society for Nature and Environment in the Kulturbund of the GDR from 1980
• GöV - Law on local people's representations of January 17, 1957, amended on July 4, 1985 (Journal of Laws of I / 1985 No. 18 p. 213)
• GO - basic organization of the SED
• GOL - basic organization management of the FDJ , z. B. at a school
• GPG - Horticultural Production Cooperative
• GPKK - Territory Party Control Commission
• GpmB - Society for Physical and Mathematical Biology of the GDR (1972–1990)
• GSM - Society for Sports Medicine of the GDR (from 1963)
• GSM - Society for Stenography and Typing of the GDR (1960–1990)
• GSP - VEB Gas Combine Black Pump
• GSSD - Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany (1945–1990)
• GST - Society for Sport and Technology - pre-military organization in which young people were prepared for service in the army.
• GSV - Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the GDR (1957–1990)
• GTMS - gas turbine motor ship
• GuG - history and society
• GVP - restaurant sales price - was calculated: GVP = EVP + restaurant surcharge depending on the price level
• GVS - Secret classified information
• GVVG - regional associations of nationally owned goods
• GWR - Society for Space Research and Space Travel of the GDR (1960–1990)

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• HA - main department
• HABW - Weimar University of Architecture and Construction
• HAN - main contractor
• HB - main library
• HBVO - Ordinance on the appointment and status of university lecturers at scientific universities (Hochschullehrer-VO) of November 6, 1968 (Journal of Laws of II / 1968 No. 127 p. 997), last amended on February 19, 1985 (Journal of Laws I / 1985 No. 7 p. 81)
• HdJT - House of Young Talents , the central clubhouse of the FDJ in Berlin (1954–1990)
• HdL - Teacher's House in Berlin (1964–1990)
• HFF - University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg (1954–1990)
• HF salaries - performance-related salaries for teachers at universities and technical schools
• HfÖ - University of Economics "Bruno Leuschner" in Berlin-Karlshorst (1956–1990)
• HfV - University of Transportation in Dresden
• HFW - higher education and technical schools
• HG - Historians Society of the GDR (1958–1990)
• HGL - House party line - the inhabitants of larger apartment buildings were used as collective considered
• H.Gr.S. - Bright, large silver rabbits as one of the best fur and meat breeds of rabbits bred
• HHI - Heinrich Hertz Institute for Atmospheric Research and Geomagnetism of the AdW
• HiO - emphasis in the original
• HO - Trade Organization - retail store of the State Trade Organization
• HPS - Higher Police School
• Capt. - Captain
• HSDVP - University of the German People's Police
• HSG - University Sports Association
• HSW - higher education
• HUB - Humboldt University of Berlin
• HV - Headquarters - a department at state institutions
• HV - main board
• HVA - Headquarters Training in the MdI
• HVA - Headquarters Enlightenment in the Stasi
• HVAS - HV for work and social welfare of the DWK
• HVDVP - Headquarters of the German People's Police in the MdI
• HVF - HV for finance of the DWK
• HVGP - HV of the border police
• HVDGP - HV of the border police
• HVHV - HV for trade and supply of the DWK
• HVIA - HV for interzonal and foreign trade of the DWK
• HVLF - HV for agriculture and forestry of the DWK
• HVS - main administration security in the MfS
• HVV - HV for traffic of the DWK
• HW - main residence

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• IÄK - Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies of the AdW
• IAG - Institute for General History of the AdW
• IAM - Information Recording Materials
• IaR - Institute for Applied Radioactivity of the AdW
• IAP - industrial tax, which is calculated for consumer goods from the sum of the operating price (BP) + a product-dependent tax or the operating price and an addition of product-dependent support (BP> IAP). The following generally applies to means of production: IAP = BP
• iba - International Book Art Exhibition
• IBP - Institute for Biochemistry of Plants of the AdW
• IBT - Institute for Biotechnology of the AdW
• ICT - Institute for Chemical Technology of the AdW
• IDFF - International Women's Democratic Federation
• IDH - Inner German Trade
• IFA - Industry Association for Vehicle Construction
• IfA - Institute for Automation of the AdW
• IfD - Institute for Documentation of the DAW in Berlin
• IFE - Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy of the AdW
• IfG - Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED from 1951 to 1976
• IfH - Institute for High Energy Physics of the AdW
• IfL - Institute for Teacher Education
• IfL - Institute for Lightweight Construction (Dresden)
• IfM - Institute for Opinion Research at the Central Committee of the SED (1964–1978)
• IfM - Institute for Oceanography of the AdW
• Ifo. - information
• IGG - Institute for Geography and Geoecology of the AdW
• IHP - Institute for Semiconductor Physics of the AdW
• IfR - 1. Institute for Law of the AdW, 2. Institute for Mineral Raw Material and Storage Management Dresden
• IG - industrial union
• iga - name of the GDR International Horticultural Exhibition in Erfurt (1961–1990)
• I-GL - Basic engineering subjects
• IHB - industrial and commercial bank of the GDR from 1967 to 1974 - the tasks of the IHB were then taken over by the state bank of the GDR.
• IHK - industrial and commercial office (1949)
• IHM - Mittweida Engineering College
• IHS - Engineering College (1969–1990)
• IHZ - Zwickau Engineering College
• I.-I. or II - Industrie-Institut - a special facility for management cadres without admission requirements to university studies
• IIB - Institute for International Relations - from 1964 an institution at the German Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where GDR diplomats were trained
• IIR - Institute for Computer Science and Computing Technology of the AdW
• IKB - Institute for Cultural Buildings, central architecture and technology office for new construction and maintenance of cultural facilities at the MfK
• IKF - Institute for Cosmos Research of the AdW
• ILID - Institute for Agricultural Information and Documentation of the DAL - worked within the framework of the RGW with the international AGROINFORM system
• ILKA - VEB Kombinat Luft- und Kältetechnik Dresden
• ILZ - Institute for Lending and Central Catalogs of the German State Library
• IM - means of information
• IM - Unofficial employee of the MfS or the DVP
• IMB - Unofficial employee of the MfS with enemy connections
• IMB - International Music Library in the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (VKM) from 1956 in Berlin
• IMath - (Karl-Weierstrass-) Institute for Mathematics of the AdW
• IMech - Institute for Mechanics of the AdW
• IML - Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED (1949–1990)
• IMS - Unofficial employee of the MfS for security
• INH - Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research of the AdW
• INT - Institute for Telecommunications
• IÖF - Institute for Ecosystem Research of the AdW
• IPF - Institute for Post and Telecommunications of the DP
• IPG - Inter-Parliamentary Group
• I-Plan - institute plan
• IPoC - Institute for Polymer Chemistry of the AdW
• IPW - Institute for International Politics and Economics (1971–1990)
• IRS - industrial robot control
• IsI - Institute for Stable Isotopes of the AdW
• ISS - Institute for Sociology and Social Policy of the AdW
• ISV - Institute for Sorbian Folk Research of the AdW
• ISW - Institute for Socialist Economic Management of Post and Telecommunications of the DP
• ISW - Institute for Socialist Economic Management of the TH Merseburg
• IT - engineering subjects
• ITA - Engineering-Technical Foreign Trade Berlin
• ITP - Institute for Polymer Technology of the AdW
• ITSR - Institute for Theory of State and Law of the AdW
• ITW - Institute for Theory, History and Organization of Science of the AdW
• ITSR - Institute for Theory of State and Law
• IV - Industrial Administration
• IWF - Institute for Active Substance Research of the AdW
• IWG - Institute for Economic History of the AdW
• IWIM - Institute for Scientific Information in Medicine
• IWP - industrial goods production
• IZEB - Railway Construction Information Center

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• JfG - Yearbook for History from 1967
• JGG - Youth Courts Act of February 29, 1952
• JHS - Law School of the MfS
• JHVO - Ordinance on the tasks and functioning of the youth welfare organs (Youth Welfare Regulation) of March 3, 1966 ( Journal of Laws of II / 1966 No. 34, p. 215)
• JP - Young Pioneers - The children's organization of the FDJ (1948–1989)
• JSchVO - Youth Protection Ordinance of September 15, 1955
• JW - Young World magazine
• JWG - Yearbook for Economic History
• JuMo - youth fashion department store and shops in which primarily fashion for young people was offered

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• K 1 - Working area 1 of the criminal police (investigations using secret service methods)
• K 5 - Department 5 of the criminal police (as political police until 1949)
• KAP - Cooperative Plant Production Department
• KB - district library (without local loan)
• KB - Kulturbund der DDR (1945-1990)
• KD - district office in the area of ​​the MfS
• KdAW - Committee of the Antifascist Resistance Fighters in the GDR
• KdgH - mutual aid fund (1951–1990) as union support in emergencies for members of the BGL
• KdT - Chamber of Technology (1946–1990)
• KEL - District Operations Command, a subdivision of the NVR
• KFA - complex research task
• KfA - Chamber for Foreign Trade
• KfL - district operation for agricultural engineering - successor operations of the machine-tractor stations
• KfS - Coordination Office for Standardization
• KfS - Committee for State Security at the Council of Ministers of the USSR ( KGB )
• KGBH - Domestic Consumer Goods
• KGD - Concert and Guest Performance Directorate - (state artist agency at district level) (1953–1990)
• KiB - children's library in the network of state general libraries
• KiKo - child combination , crèche and kindergarten in one building complex
• KIM - Combine Industrial Mast -; Mass poultry farming, correspondingly KIM eggs, an abbreviation in advertising also interpreted as “delicious, always fresh from the market”
• KIZ - Culture and Information Center of the GDR as foreign information institutions of the League of Peoples Friendship of the GDR
• KJS - Children's and Youth Sports School - Special school for promoting young talent in high-performance sports
• KK - Conflict Commission (1953–1990), also: KKO
• KK - kerbloch index card (the kerbloch index card generally also marginal hole index card )
• KKL - Conference of Evangelical Church Leaders in the GDR
• KL - district management
• KLB - circular play operation
• KMS - Karl-Marx-Stadt , also known as KMStadt as an abbreviation
• KMU - Karl Marx University Leipzig
• KNE - Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik
• KOG - Cooperation Community , a horizontally organized cooperation between farms in agriculture
• KOM - bus, coach
• Koko - Commercial Coordination - a foreign trade authority of the GDR under the supervision of the MfS (1966–1990)
• COM - bus
• KPKK - District Party Control Commission
• KPP - control pass point
• KRG - Control Council Act
• KS - chain tractor - the name of a range of machines for soil cultivation in agriculture
• KTA - Motor Vehicle Technology Office
• KuA - Art and Antiques GmbH (1973–1989)
• KuK - Art and Antiques GmbH, a company of KoKo
• KVP - Barracked People's Police
• KWO - Kombinat VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree "Wilhelm Pieck" Berlin
• KWU - municipal commercial enterprise (from 1946, converted to VEB by 1952 at the latest, comparable to in-house operation )
• KWV - Municipal Housing Administration - municipal companies for the administration and management of apartments (1958–1990).

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• LA - State Archives
• LA - Active learning in company vocational schools
• LAG - camp working group of the KdAW
• LB - State Library
• LDPD - Liberal Democratic Party of Germany
• LEW - VEB Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke Hans Beimler Hennigsdorf
• LHA - State Main Archives
• LID - control center for information / documentation
• LKG - Leipziger Kommissions- und Großbuchhandel GmbH
• LKM - VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg
• LNF - Agricultural land (also just called LN)
• LO - designation for motor vehicles of the Robur brand (type designation L (truck) - O (petrol engine))
• LN - performance mark in the assessment of animals with LP in animal breeding
• LP - credit points, an assessment measure in animal breeding
• LP - performance test in plant breeding
• LPG - Agricultural Production Cooperative
• LPG / VEG-P - a specialized LPG / VEG for plant production
• LPG / VEG-T - a specialized LPG / VEG for animal production
• LPKK - State Party Control Commission (up to the establishment of the districts, the states in the GDR still existed)
• LPO - Performance test regulations for horse performance tests
• LRS - State Government of Saxony (before the establishment of the districts)
• LS - loamy sand as a type of soil
• LSK / LV - Air Force / Air Defense of the NVA
• LT - loamy clay as a type of soil
• LuG - Agricultural and Horticultural Exhibition of the GDR (until 1960)
• LuHB - State and University Library
• LVO - Interlibrary Loan Regulations in Libraries of the GDR (Order on the interlibrary loan system of the libraries of the GDR - Interlibrary loan regulations - of October 1, 1965 - Gbl. Part II, No. 106 of October 25, 1965, pp. 741-748)
• LVO - National Defense Object
• LVO - Ordinance on deliveries and services to the armed organs - Delivery Ordinance
• LWR - Council of Agriculture
• LZPZ - long-term target programs of cooperation in production branches

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View into the exhibition hall 1; on the XIII. Central knife of the masters of tomorrow 1970

• MA - Medical Academy
• MAD - Medical Academy Dresden
• MAH - Ministry of Foreign Trade (1973–1990), see MAI
• MAI - Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade (1949–1967)
• MAK accounting - a material, equipment and consumer goods accounting within a company
• MALF - Ministry of General Machinery, Agricultural Machinery and Vehicle Construction
• Malimo - stitched fabric ; Made-up word from the name of the inventor Mauersberger , his place of residence Limbach-Oberfrohna and the fabric type Molton - fabric .
• MAW - Ministry of Foreign Trade (1967–1973), see MAI
• MPA - Mastprüfungsanstalt - a puddle institute for fattening performance testing of pigs
• MAS - machine rental station , forerunner of the MTS in the 1950s
• MAS - Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare
• MBau - Ministry of Construction
• MCI - Ministry of Chemical Industry
• MdF - Ministry of Finance (1949–1990)
• MdI - Ministry of the Interior (1949–1990)
• MdJ - Ministry of Justice (1949–1990)
• MDN - Mark of the German Central Bank
• MDV - Medical Service of Transport in the GDR
• MdVR - Member of the German People's Council
• MDZ - Methodological Diagnostic Centers
• MEE - Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
• MeG - Meteorological Society of the GDR (1957–1990)
• MEGA - Marx-Engels Complete Edition of the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• MELS - Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute (later renamed IML)
• MEW - Marx-Engels-Werke - collected writings by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• MF - microfilm (s) / microfiche
• MfAA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1949–1990)
• MfAM - Ministry of Foreign Trade and Material Supply (1949), see MAI
• MfB - Ministry of Construction (1949–1990)
• MfC - Ministry of Chemical Industry (1965–1989)
• MfDG - Museum of German History (1952–1990)
• MfG - Ministry of Health (1949–1990)
• MfGuK - Ministry of Glass and Ceramics (1972–1989)
• MfHV - Ministry of Trade and Supply (1949–1990)
• MfK - Ministry of Culture (1954–1990)
• MfL - Ministry of Light Industry (also: MLI)
• MfLFN - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management (1973–1990)
• MfM - Ministry of Materials Management (1965–1990)
• MfNV - Ministry of National Defense (1956–1990)
• MFS - motor ferry
• MfS - Ministry for State Security (1950–1989)
• MfUW - Ministry of Environmental Protection and Water Management (1972–1990)
• MfV - Ministry of Popular Education (1950–1989)
• MfV - Ministry of Transport (1949–1990)
• MfWT - Ministry of Science and Technology (1967–1990)
• MfWV - Ministry of Machine Tool and Processing Machinery
• MGK - Ministry of Glass and Ceramics Industry
• MG - Melioration cooperative , companies for cultivating and maintaining the value of agriculturally used soils through melioration measures
• MGDDR - Mathematical Society of the GDR (1962–1990)
• MHD - Meteorological and Hydrological Service - the weather service of the GDR
• MHF - Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Education (1967–1989)
• MIZ - Music Information Center of the VKM
• MKE - Ministry of Coal and Energy
• Foot and mouth disease - foot and mouth disease
• ML - common abbreviation among students for the social theory of Marxism-Leninism and the corresponding subject, which was part of all fields of study.
• ML - Mast performance book
• ML - additional designation for pigs that were taken into account in the fattening performance test
• MLP - fattening performance test for pigs
• ml WA - Marxist-Leninist Weltanschauung, abbreviation used in partner search advertisements by SED members
• MLFN - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management
• MLU - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• MLW - Medical and Laboratory Works [Berlin / Babelsberg / Potsdam / Dresden / Leipzig]
• MMA - Military Medical Academy in Bad Saarow-Pieskow from 1981 to 1990
• MMK - Military all-around
• MMKV - Military All-Around Association of the GDR (1987–1990)
• MMM - Fair of the Masters of Tomorrow - Youth Research Competition
• MOGEVUS - Molecular basics of development, inheritance and control processes
• MOSV - GST Motorsport Association since 1987
• MPF - Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (1949–1990)
• M-Plan - Ministerial Plan
• MR - Council of Ministers of the GDR
• MRB - Council of Ministers decisions
• MSAB - Ministry of Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering
• MSK - Union of Employees of the State Bodies and Municipal Services from 1963
• MSV - Model Sports Association of the GDR from 1987
• MTS - machine-tractor station
• MuFuTi - multifunctional table - usually a dining or coffee table with manual height adjustment and the possibility of extending the table in the middle; Made known throughout Germany through the film Sonnenallee
• MVN - material consumption standard
• MVT - mechanical process engineering
• MWT - Ministry of Science and Technology
• MZ - Methodical Center for Scientific Libraries and Information and Documentation Facilities of the MHF

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• NARVA - N itrogenium , AR gon , VA kuum , from 1963 name for the VEB Berliner Glühlampenwerk "Rosa Luxemburg" , in 1969 merged into the large combine VEB Narva, combine of the nationally owned lighting industry
• NAW - National Construction
• NBG - New Bach Society in Leipzig (1900–1990)
• NBI - Neue Berliner Illustrierte
• ND - New Germany Newspaper
• ndl - magazine new german literature
• NDPD - National Democratic Party of Germany
• NEG - VEB Nachrichtenelektronik Greifswald
• NF - National Front of the GDR (1949–1990)
• NF - New Forum
• NFG - National Research Centers and Memorials of Classical German Literature in Weimar (1953–1993)
• NKM - VEB Numerik Karl-Marx-Stadt
• NMG - National Memorials and Memorials (1958–1990)
• Economic System - New Economic System , also NÖSPL and NÖPL named
• NÖSPL - New economic system of planning and management, see NÖS , also only NÖPL
• NSA - Non-Socialist Abroad
• NSW - Non-Socialist Economic Area - mostly used as a synonym for capitalist countries
• NSW-RK - travel cadre for the non-socialist economic area
• NT - non-technical subjects
• NTM - NTM series for the history of natural sciences, technology and medicine
• NVA - National People's Army
• NVO - (Neuerer-VO) Ordinance on the promotion of the activities of innovators and rationalizers in the innovator movement of December 22, 1971 (Journal of Laws of II / 1972 No. 1 p. 1)
• NVR - National Defense Council (1960–1990)

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• OB - Senior Librarian
• OBR - Senior Library Council
• OD - object service center in the area of ​​the MfS
• OdF - Victims of Fascism
• OfL - organization of volunteer air raid workers
• OG - Supreme Court of the GDR
• OGL - local union leadership
• OGO - local union organization, a rather rare institution of the FDGB
• OGS - Fruits, Vegetables and Table Potatoes - Wholesale of fruits, vegetables and table potatoes
• OHS - Officers College
• OibE - officer on special duty
• OM - Official Employee
• OPK - Operative Personal Control
• OSL - Lieutenant Colonel
• ÖSS - Economic System of Socialism
• ORSTA - VEB ORSTA-Hydraulik Leipzig (combine for hydraulics and pneumatics)
• OV - Operative process, a procedure of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR for "enemy processing"
• OvD - officer on duty
• OWG - Act to Combat Administrative Offenses of January 12, 1968 (Journal of Laws of I / 1968 No. 3 p. 101)
• ÖWK - ecological forest condition control for forest condition and forest damage assessment.

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• P2 - a panel type
• PA - Abbreviation for the school subject “ productive work ”, teaching subject, student work in companies, usually every fortnight, one day, from the 7th grade, but also for identity cards
• PaG - Parasitological Society of the GDR (1961–1990)
• PAO - pricing arrangement typically used for industrial and consumer prices prior to 1967. From 1967 these were implemented as supplementary provisions to existing determinations.
• PatG - Law on Legal Protection for Inventions (Patent Act) of July 31, 1963 (Journal of Laws of I / 1963 p. 121), amended on October 27, 1983 (Journal of Laws of I / 1983 No. 29 p. 284)
• PB - Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED (1949–1989)
• PBA - Political Advisory Committee of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
• PCK - Petrochemical Combine in Schwedt (Oder)
• PDAVO - Production and Service Tax Regulation
• PdVP - Presidium of the People's Police
• PF - PO Box
• PG - Physical Society of the GDR (1952–1990)
• PGA - Production Level Worker
• PGB - Production Cooperative of Inland Fishermen from 1952
• PGH - Production Cooperative of the Crafts (1952–1990)
• PGO - party group organizer, head of a party group of the SED
• PH - University of Education
• PHS - "Karl Marx" party college at the SED Central Committee (1946–1989)
• PHV - Main Political Administration of the National People's Army
• PI - Pedagogical Institute
• PK Department - Political Culture Department
• PKE - passport control units - they wore the uniform of the border troops, but were subordinate to the MfS.
• PKK - Party Control Commission of the SED (1948–1989)
• PKO - a body responsible for coordinating prices in the industry
• PKT - Passenger and motor vehicle tariff in internal traffic in the GDR
• PKZ - a 12-digit personal code for all people living in the GDR (1970–1990)
• PLAT - special oil "Platinol"
• PM 12 - temporary identity card , also a replacement document for a confiscated identity card, for example for those released from prison and those who are politically unpopular. PM 12 owners were exposed to arbitrary harassment by the People's Police, Transport Police and State Security and their freedom of movement within the GDR was restricted.
• PM 18 - Permission to sail on the waters of the GDR. A new permit to be applied for annually in order to be able to navigate the inner sea waters of the GDR.
• PM 19 - Authorization to cross the sea border. Permission to be applied for annually to be able to cross the sea border of the GDR (3-mile limit).
• PMR - Presidium of the Council of Ministers
• POS - Polytechnic High School , type of school with classes from the 1st to the 10th school year
• POZW - Political-operational cooperation
• PrAO - price arrangement (1949)
• PrEV - price calculation regulation (1949)
• PrK - Price Control (1949)
• PrVOBl. - Price regulation sheet
• PSF - post office box
• P-special prints - price special prints
• PT - plan carrier
• PTI - Physikalisch-Technische Institut der AdW
• PTS - inspection department for technical ship equipment of the DAMW in Stralsund
• PUT - Underground Political Activity
• PV - party executive
• PV - Political Administration of the National People's Army, formerly the PHV
• PVO - Price Ordinance - also: PrVO (1949) - until 1954. From 1954 replaced by a price arrangement in the course of the industrial price reform
• PwF - Production Cooperative for Working Fishermen (1964)
• PwP - production cooperative of working fur breeders
• PwZ - production cooperative of working ornamental fish breeders
• PZV - postal newspaper sales

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• Q3A - a type of prefabricated house in the GDR

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• RA - Reichsbahn-Amtmann, a rank with the Deutsche Reichsbahn (others, all starting with R , listed here only as examples)
• RAW - Reichsbahn repair shop
• Rba - Reichsbahnamt
• RBD - Reichsbahndirektion, later Rbd
• RBI - Radio Berlin International
• RBO - Reichsbahn salary regulations
• RdB - Council of the District
• RdK - Council of the District
• RdS - City Council
• RE-AO - Invoice Collection Arrangement
• REWI-Verband - Auditing and trade association of consumer cooperatives (1949)
• RGW - Comecon
• RFT - radio and telecommunication technology , combine of radio equipment manufacturers
• RK - Revision Commission of the SED (1954–1989)
• RKV - framework collective agreement
• RL - Register for continuous performance animals from January 1, 1947 (replaced the German Cattle Performance Book - DLRB - from 1937 to 1945)
• RL - ring line (set up for telephone conferences)
• RLN - Council for Agricultural Production and the Food Industry. An institution of the Agriculture Council from 1968 to organize cooperation between agriculture and the food industry more closely. In 1971, the RLN-Z marked the move towards central production management. The RLN-B were the subordinate institutions.
• RMW - Council for Medical Science (1962–1990)
• ROA - Reichsbahn-Oberamtmann, a rank with the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• ROR - Reichsbahn-Oberrat, a rank with the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• ROS - Reichsbahn-Obersekretär, a rank with the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• RPE - Representative Productivity Survey
• RR - Reichsbahn-Rat, a rank with the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• RS - wheeled tractor - an abbreviation for a series of tractors in the GDR
• RSV - Radiosportverband der DDR from 1987
• RTS - repair technology base / station, predecessor of MTS

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Collection of old materials from students

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• SAAS - State Office for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection, founded in 1973
• SAB - systematics for general education libraries
• SAG - Soviet joint-stock company
• SAÖB - State general education public library
• SAW - Saxon Academy of Sciences (in Leipzig) (1846–1990)
• SB - City Library
• SB - municipality
• SBB - City and District Library
• SBBI - State Bureau for the Appraisal of Investments
• SBBM - City District Mayor
• SBL - City District Management
• SBW - Socialist Business Administration
• SBZ - Soviet Zone of Occupation
• SC - sports club
• SchrVP - series of publications of the People's Police
• SDAG - Soviet-German stock corporation, z. B. SDAG bismuth
• SED - Socialist Unity Party of Germany - the "State Party" in the GDR
• SERO - short for VEB Kombinat secondary raw material acquisition and secondary raw materials
• SEZ - sports and recreation center , sports and leisure complex in Berlin
• SFDR - special telecommunications service network of the government under the leadership of the MfS
• SfS - State Secretariat for State Security
• SFT - State Secretariat for Research and Technology
• SG - sports community
• SGB - Socialist wholesale company
• SGD - Pig Health Service - a veterinary facility for preventive measures against pig diseases
• SGL - school union leadership
• SGO - School Union Organization
• Sh - tractor hour - an hour of use of a tractor in agriculture
• SHD - Sea Hydrographic Service of the GDR in Rostock with branches in Warnemünde and Peenemünde
• SHGD - Sheep Flock Health Service - a veterinary facility for monitoring sheep flocks
• SHS - special university
• SIAT - Socialist International Division of Labor
• SIK - Saxon Industrial Office (1949)
• Siko - Security Commission of the Politburo of the SED
• SIV - Selective Information Processing
• SKB - City and District Library
• SKDA - Sports Committee of Friendly Armies - the Army Sports Association "Forward" was a founding member of the SKDA (founded in Moscow in March 1958)
• SKET - VEB heavy mechanical engineering combine "Ernst Thälmann" in Magdeburg
• SKK - Soviet Control Commission
• SKL - VEB Heavy Machinery "Karl Liebknecht"
• SKV - State Health Insurance
• SL - a register for pig performance (formerly: German pig performance book - DSLB)
• SMA - pig fattening facility , but also Soviet military administration
• SMAD - Soviet Military Administration in Germany
• SMD - Sports Medical Service (1963–1990)
• SMH - Fast Medical Help - translation of the Russian "скорая медицинская помощь" ; in West German "ambulance service" or "first aid"
• SNB - Soviet News Office - an institution of the SMAD in the GDR
• SPK - State Planning Commission (1950–1990)
• SpoWa - Abbreviation for "SPOrt- und WAnderartikel", or SPOrtWAren, or SPORTartikel WArenhaus, a department store or sports sales department of large department stores in every major city, in which primarily sportswear (core brand Germina ) and camping supplies, but also clothing for young and Thälmann pioneers and FDJler was sold
• SSV - Maritime Sports Association of the GDR from 1987
• StAB - State General Library
• Stabü even stability - common among students abbreviation for the school subject civics
• StAG - Law on the Public Prosecutor of 7 April 1977 (Journal of Laws of I / 1977 No. 10 p. 93)
• Sta-Ge-Fi - State Administration-Healthcare-Finance Union
• StAV - State Archives Administration of the GDR (1949–1990), from 1953 called State Archives Administration of the MdI
• Stakuko - State Commission for Art Affairs was a State Secretariat of the GDR from 1951 to 1953 and was merged with the Ministry of Culture .
• Stasi - see MfS Ministry for State Security (1950–1989)
• StB - City Library
• StEG - Criminal Law Amendment Act of December 11, 1957
• StFB - State Forestry Company
• StPB - permanent production advice , a body of the union from 1958 as a committee of the BGO
• StPO - Criminal Procedure Code of the GDR
• StVE - penal institution
• StVG - State Contracting Court of the GDR (1951–1990)
• SU - Soviet Union
• SUT - seaport handling tariff
• SV - Sports Association
• SV - Social Insurance (1947–1990)
• SV DVP - Sports Association of the German People's Police from 1950
• SVA - Shipbuilding Research Institute in Potsdam
• SVG - State Contracting Court
• SVO - Ordinance on compulsory social insurance for workers and employees of November 17, 1977 (Journal of Laws of I / 1977 No. 35 p. 377)
• SVT - system process engineering
• SW - Socialist Economic Area - the area of ​​the socialist countries of Comecon
• SWO - Freshwater Road Code
• SZS - State Central Administration for Statistics (1952–1990) in Berlin

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• TAKRAF - opencast mining equipment, cranes and conveyor systems ( VEB Schwermaschinenbau-Kombinat Leipzig )
• TAN - technical work standard
• Tebele - textile-clothing-leather
• TEWA - VEB Technische Eisenwaren Chemnitz (1953)
• TGL - technical standards, quality regulations and delivery conditions : counterpart to the western DIN standards
• TH - Technical University
• THD - Veterinary Hygiene Service, specialist staff for slaughter animal and meat inspection, incorporated into the districts' state-owned meat combines from 1969-1990
• THI - Technical University of Ilmenau
• THI - Tierzucht-Hauptinspektion - a state institution for the promotion of animal breeding based in Berlin (AO on the statute of the THI from May 25, 1960, Journal II, No. 18/1960; effective 1954 to 1962, successor institution: VVB Tierzucht Paretz , regulated by resolution of the Council of Ministers of the GDR of September 15, 1962)
• THLM - Technical University Leuna-Merseburg
• TI - Animal Breeding Inspection (facility for the implementation of official animal breeding tasks in the territory, realized 1954 - 1958 by 5 branch offices and 1959 - 1970 by 14 district offices; successor from 1971: VEB Tierzucht as a merger of TI, VEB insemination and testing stations of the respective district )
• TKBA - animal carcass disposal facility
• TKO - Technical Control Organization, regulated in the ordinance on the development and safeguarding of products of December 1, 1983 (Journal of Laws I / 1983 No. 37 p. 405) and the ordinance on the technical control organization in the combines and companies of December 21, 1983 March 1986 (Journal of Laws of I / 1986 No. 12 p. 159)
• TN - daily norm as a measure of performance in agriculture
• TMV - Daughter-Mother Comparison in Animal Breeding
• TOM - technical and organizational measures within a company
• TÖZ - technical-economic objective. a methodical objective in the operational plan
• Trapo - transport police, they performed police duties on railway systems
• Trh - tractor lesson - an hour of use of a tractor in agriculture
• TSE - Animal Disease Compensation - a state institution for compensation after the ordered killing of sick animals
• TSK - Territorial-Specific Forces (MfS)
• TSV - Diving Association of the GDR from 1987
• TU - Technical University
• TÜ - Technical Supervision - GDR equivalence to TÜV
• TUD - Technical University of Dresden
• TVA - tariff and traffic indicator
• TVO - Transport Ordinance
• TW - engineering sciences
• TWK - technical and scientific indicators
• TZ - technical drawing (subject in 7th and 8th grade)
• TZB - Central Technical Library

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• UB - University Library
• USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• UGL - University Union Management
• UNALOG - Universal low pressure analog and logic system for pneumatic controls
• U organ - investigative organ
• UPP - fixed plan price that was valid from January 1, 1955 to December 31, 1967 for certain products. From January 1, 1968 the UPP was replaced by the constant prices. These were in turn replaced from January 1, 1976 by constant plan prices.
• UTP - “Class day in socialist production” introduced in 1958 - also “class in technical production” - for pupils from the 7th grade; consisted of the subjects ESP (introduction to socialist production, comparable to economics) and PA (productive work), which usually took place alternately on one day every two weeks; From the 11th grade onwards at the EOS it is called WPA (Scientific and Practical Work)
• UuLB - University and State Library

V

Fur warehouse of a state-owned collection and purchase company in Leipzig

The community of Ochsensaal in the district of Oschatz is known to be exemplary in the delivery of agricultural products (ZB-Illner, December 16, 1953, Ochsensaal is now part of the community of Dahlen (Saxony) )

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• VA - Pre-military training (also VMA)
• VASA - Saxony-Anhalt Insurance Company (1949)
• VAVO - Consumption Taxes Ordinance
• VBE - full employment unit, also: VbE
• VBK - Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (1950–1990); Association of Berlin Consumer Cooperatives (1949)
• VBV - Union of Administration-Banks-Insurance from 1950–1958
• VD - a service for the advance notice of new editions in bookshops
• VDE - administration and service facility
• VdF - Association of Freethinkers of the GDR (from 1989) - from June 1990 as "German Freethinkers Association eV"
• VdgB - Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (1946–1990)
• VDJ - Association of Journalists in the GDR
• VDJD - Association of Democratic Jurists in Germany (1948–1949): from 1949 Association of Jurists of the GDR (VdJ) until 1990
• VdK - Association of Performing Artists; Association of consumer cooperatives of the GDR (1972–1999) - Before:
  • VDK - Association of German Consumer Cooperatives (from 1949)
• VdN - Persecuted by the Nazi regime (1949–1990)
• VDP - Association of the German Press - also: VdDP (1949)
• VE - Volkseigen
• VEAB - state-owned collection and purchase company - purchase points for products from private individuals, mostly fruit and vegetables from their own garden, but also animal products such as eggs and poultry and skins. There were also drug registration companies that were responsible for buying wild and garden herbs, but above all medicinal plants.
• VEB - state-owned company - see also Kombinat
• VEB (B) - state-owned company (district management)
• VEB (G) - State-owned company (managed by the municipality)
• VEB (K) - state-owned company (district management)
• VEB (Ö) - publicly owned company (locally managed)
• VEB (St) - state-owned company (city-run)
• VEB (Z) - state-owned company (central management)
• VEG - national estate (from 1949, before that provincial estate, state estate or national estate)
• VEG (Z) - Nationally owned property (centrally managed, i.e. directly subordinated to VVB Seed and Planting Material or VVB Tierzucht)
• VEH - publicly owned trade, e.g. B. VEH Modern Art (from 1963)
• VELK / DDR - United Evangelical Churches in the GDR
• VEM - Trademark Association for Electromechanical Engineering , also VEB Elektromotoren Wernigerode
• VEP - retail or consumer price; later end consumer price (EVP) - see also retail sales price
• Responsible - Responsible, responsible or responsible person (corresponds to a kind of "lead management" in the course of the process, but the "responsible" person had to be responsible for the result even in the case of insufficient / missing preparatory work)
• VESTA - VVB VESTA Leipzig from 1948 to 1951. The name resulted from the production of (raw) iron and steel products
• VEV - publicly owned publishing house
• VfA - Administration for Foreign Trade of the SMAD (1949)
• VfAA - publisher for agitation and visual media
• VFF - Association of Film and TV Makers in the GDR (1967–1990)
• VFK - Association for Crystallography
• VG - Contract Act of February 25, 1965 (Journal of Laws of I / 1965 p. 107)
• VH - Arrested (r)
• VHZ - publicly owned trading center
• VK - supply office of the state material supply (e.g. VK synthetic fiber Karl-Marx-Stadt, VK tearing spider Karl-Marx-Stadt, VK industrial textiles Dresden, VK clothing fasteners Schmölln)
• VK - Pre-registration register (also: VKR) - a register in animal breeding
• VK - traffic police
• VKA - People's Control Committees as a sub-grouping of the ABI
• VKM - Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (1952–1990)
• VKSK - Association of allotment gardeners, settlers and small animal breeders (1959–1990)
• VM - value mark
• VMA - pre-military training (also VA)
• VMI - National Economic Mass Initiative - paid voluntary work, e.g. B. to beautify the living environment
• VO - regulation
• VOB - Association of Organizational Enterprises (1945–1990) - Business enterprise of a party in the GDR
• VP - People's Police
• VPB - People's Police Readiness
• VPG - Volkspolizeigesetz - Law on the tasks and powers of the German People's Police of June 11, 1968
• VPKA - Volkspolizeikreisamt (majority accordingly VPKÄ - Volkspolizeikreisamt)
• VPR - People's Police Station
• VPS - schools of the DVP
• VR - People's Republic
• VS - People's Solidarity (1945–1990)
• VSTA - pre-study institute
• VSV - Ordinance on compulsory social insurance
• VSV - Administration of the Prison System
• VT - process engineering
• VT - Association of Theater Professionals in the GDR (1966–1990)
• VTA - loading and transport unit
• VuM - rulings and notifications
• VVB - Association of State-Owned Enterprises (1948–1990)
• VVEAB - an association of the VEAB of a district
• VVG - Association of People's Own Goods from 1949
• VVN - Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime (1947–1953)
• VVO - Patriotic Order of Merit
• VVS - Confidential classified information
• VVV - a general assembly of shop stewards of a state enterprise
• VVW - Association of People's Own Shipyards, from 1948 on the Mecklenburg coast
• VW Plan - National Economic Plan
• VWR - National Economic Council from 1961 to 1965
• VZ - supply center; central facility for trade, services, culture and gastronomy within a heavily populated residential area

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• WAB - water supply and sewage disposal company
• WAB - Scientific general library of the district
• WAO - Scientific Work Organization. Was introduced in the GDR from 1971, and implemented in companies from April 1973 by an order (AO).
• WB - science area
• WBA - Residential District Committee of the National Front
• WBDJ - World Federation of Democratic Youth
• WBK - Military District Command (NVA)
• WBK - Housing Combine
• WBS 70 - Housing system 70 , uniform panel construction type from 1970
• WBU - waterway operation and maintenance
• WE - apartment unit
• WF - VEB factory for television electronics Berlin
• WGB - Scientific device construction
• WGB - World Trade Union Confederation
• WGV - Scientific Society for Veterinary Medicine of the GDR (1954–1990)
• WIB - Scientific industrial company
• WIZ - Scientific Information Center of the AdW
• WK - Scientific Communism
• WKG - Scientific Communism Social Studies - Teaching subject at Hoch- u. Technical schools (from 1970)
• WKK - Military District Command (NVA)
• WKSV - Military Combat Sports Association of the GDR from 1987
• WMW - machine tools and tools , state foreign trade company for the sale of the named products, registered trademark for such
• WPA - Scientific and practical work (EOS school subject)
• WPO - Housing Party Organization of the SED
• WPT - Scientific Productive Activity
• WPU - Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock
• WR - Scientific Council
• WtB - goods daily need
• WTG - Scientific and technical societies in the KdT
• WTK - Scientific-Technical Concept
• WTZ - Scientific and Technical Center of the VVB
• WTZ - Scientific-Technical Cooperation
• WZ FSU - Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• WZ HUB G - Scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Social Sciences series
• WZ KMU G - Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University Leipzig, social and linguistic series
• WZ MLU G - Scientific journal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, social and linguistic series

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• Z-37 - an agricultural aircraft imported from Czechoslovakia from 1968
• Z-Plan - Central Research Plan
• Zafir - Central Committee on Industrial Accounting (1949)
• ZAIG - Central evaluation and information group in the MfS
• ZAG - Central assembly group
• ZAK - Central Working Groups for Research and Technology in the Research Council of the GDR
• ZAK - Central article catalog of the economy of the GDR
• ZAM - Central Institute for Occupational Medicine (1961–1990)
• ZB - Central Library
• ZBE - inter-company facility , a combination of different facilities for cooperation z. B. in agriculture, the facilities can also be outside of the farms
• Z-BfN - Central office for innovator movement, available in central institutions of the state and the economic management
• ZBL - Zentralblatt - Official publication for administrative instructions of the government. There were also various magazines in the GDR that had the term “Zentralblatt” in their title.
• ZBN - Central inventory record in the ZStAM
• ZBO - inter-company building organization
• ZBS - Central Training Center of the AdW
• ZDK - Central Conference of Delegates
• ZE - traction unit in agriculture for evaluating the tractive force of individual animals
• ZEK - Central Development and Design Office
• Zentrag - Central printing, purchasing and auditing company (1945–1990)
• ZER - Central Residential Register in cooperation with the Central Personal Database of the MdI
• ZFB - Central Specialized Library
• ZfB - Central Journal for Libraries
• ZfG - Journal of History
• ZfI - Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research
• ZfK - Central Institute for Nuclear Research of the AdW
• ZFP - Central Research Plan
• ZFT - Central Office for Research and Technology
• ZFW - Central Institute for Solid State Physics and Materials Research of the AdW (status: 1990)
• ZGE - Intermediate Cooperative Institutions in Agriculture
• ZGE - Zuchtgartenelite - a harvest for preservation in the breeding of plant varieties in seed farms
• ZGID - Center for Social Science Information and Documentation of the AdW
• ZHB - Central Institute for Higher Education (1982–1990)
• ZI - Central Institute
• ZIAC - Central Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of the AdW
• ZIAGA - Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the AdW
• ZIAP - Central Institute for Astrophysics of the AdW
• ZIB - Central Institute for Libraries Berlin
• ZIE - Central Institute for Nutrition of the AdW
• ZIE - Central Institute for Electron Physics of the AdW (status: 1990)
• ZIfSW - Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management at the Central Committee of the SED
• ZIG - Central Institute for the History of the AdW
• ZIGK - Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plant Research of the AdW
• ZIHKF - Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research of the AdW (also: ZIHK)
• ZIHSB - Central Institute for Higher Education
• ZIID - Central Institute for Information and Documentation (1966–1990)
• ZIIS - Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research of the AdW
• ZIJ - Central Institute for Youth Research of the AdW (1960–1990)
• ZIK - Central Institute for Cancer Research of the AdW
• ZIL - Central Institute for the History of Literature of the AdW
• ZIM - Central Institute for Molecular Biology of the AdW
• ZIMET - Central Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy of the AdW
• ZIOC - Central Institute for Organic Chemistry of the AdW
• ZIPC - Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the AdW
• ZIPE - Central Institute for Earth Physics of the AdW
• ZIPh - Central Institute for Philosophy of the AdW
• ZIS - Central Institute for Welding Technology in Halle (1952–1990)
• ZISW - Central Institute for Linguistics of the AdW
• ZIW - Central Institute for Economics of the AdW
• ZK - Central Committee of the SED
• ZKG - Central Coordination Group in the MfS
• ZKI - Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes of the AdW
• ZKK - Central Control Commission at the DWK (1949)
• ZKK - Central Disaster Commission at the MR of the GDR
• ZKSK - Central Commission for State Control at the Council of Ministers of the GDR
• ZLA - Central Training Institute
• ZLF - central laboratory for telecommunications technology, central development and testing facility for telecommunications systems
• ZLGID - Central Management for Social Science Information and Documentation of the AdW
• ZLID - Central control center for information / documentation
• ZMD - Central Medical Service
• ZOS - Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy of the AdW
• ZOS - Central Operational Staff
• ZPA - Central Party Archive of the SED
• ZPD - Central Office for Primary Documentation, subordinate to the SZS
• ZPKK - Central Party Control Commission
• ZRK - Central Revision Commission in various institutions, including the SED
• ZSfK - Central School for Combat Groups in Schmerwitz near Wiesenburg / Mark
• ZStAM - Central State Archives in Merseburg
• ZStPB - Central StPB set up in larger companies
• ZSW - Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management at the Central Committee of the SED (1965–1990)
• ZV - civil defense of the GDR (1970–1990)
• ZV - Central Board
• ZVA - Newspaper Sales Office (in Berlin)
• ZVG - Central Contracting Court
• ZVGes - central administration for health care
• ZVOBL - Central Ordinance Sheet of the DWK
• ZwB - branch library
• ZWG - Center for Scientific Device Construction of the AdW
• ZWK - Central Goods Office in the MfHV. After 1965 there were six independent goods accounts after the dissolution of the ZWK: daily goods (WtB); Fruit, vegetables, table potatoes (OGS); Household goods, technology, shoes and leather goods, furniture, cultural goods, sporting goods and the textile and haberdashery wholesale department.

See also

• List of brand names and products in the GDR

Web links

• Abbreviations of the GDR
• Federal Archives: Abbreviations from the holdings of the parties and mass organizations of the GDR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac} The Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the Former State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic (ed.): Local election falsification on 7 May 1989 in the former GDR districts of Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) and Leipzig . Berlin 2014, pp. 73–75.