Ministry for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunication of the GDR ( MPF ) was responsible for the operation of the post office as well as the radio and telecommunication facilities in the GDR . It was founded with the GDR on October 7, 1949 and dissolved in the course of German reunification in 1989/1990 or incorporated into the Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications . The Ministry was headed by the Minister of Post and Telecommunications , represented by a State Secretary . The minister issued orders and implementing provisions to supplement the laws .

history

Letter from the Central Post Office to the union, 1948

The Ministry had a forerunner immediately after the Second World War , the Central Administration for Post and Telecommunications in the Soviet Zone of Germany , founded by the Soviet military administration in Germany SMAD with the "Order No. 17" , from 1948 German Economic Commission (DWK), head office Post and Telecommunications (HVPF) called. Its president was Wilhelm Schröder ( KPD , then SED ).

The central administration tried to set up a regular postal service during the politically charged occupation. Big politics even played a role in smaller delivery problems. On January 26, 1948, for example, the union official Hans Jendretzky complained to his colleague Schröder from the central administration, an inadvertent deal with Potsdam, Schopenhauerstr. 22, instead of 27, addressed letter to the local board of the FDGB was returned with the note to the sender: "Occupied by Russians". In the letter, Jendretzky urged mail carriers to avoid this because of the "effect of such notes on residents of the western zones".

With the founding of the GDR in 1949, the Soviet-controlled main administrations resulted in ministries and thus also the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the GDR. The first minister was the trade unionist and post office specialist Friedrich Burmeister , the last was Emil Schnell . The first exploratory talks that led to the dissolution of the ministry took place in December 1989 between GDR Post Minister Klaus Wolf and FRG Post Minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling .

Minister for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR

• Friedrich Burmeister ( CDU ) (1949–1963)
• Rudolph Schulze (CDU) (1963-1989)
• Klaus Wolf (CDU) (November 1989 – April 1990, during the Modrow government)
• Emil Schnell ( SPD ) (April 1990 to August 1990)

See also

• History of the Post

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SMAD Order No. 17: Establishment of the German central administration. Order No. 17 of the Supreme Chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany concerning the establishment of German central administrations in the Soviet occupation zone of July 27, 1945. Retrieved March 24, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Federal Archives To the Central Administration, Dr. Schröder, January 26, 1948
3. ↑ Hans Hübner: The Minister for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR , in: Das Archiv 2/2012, published by the German Society for Post and Telecommunication History , p. 54 ff. ISSN  1611-0838