Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics in the House of the Electrical Industry (building on the left), 1972

The Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics was a central organ of the Council of Ministers for guidance and control in the planning of the electro-technical and electronic industry in the GDR from 1966 to 1990.

The Ministry was founded on February 1, 1966 with a Council of Ministers resolution of December 22, 1965 and the Council of State's decree on the further development and simplification of state management activities in the 2nd stage of the New Economic System of Planning and Management of January 14, 1966. The seat of the ministry was in the house of the electrical industry at Alexanderplatz 6 in Berlin.

The legal predecessor of the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics was the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Scientific Device Construction of the National Economic Council .

With the decision on the establishment and dissolution of ministries and central state organs of December 21, 1989 (Journal of Laws of I No. 26, p. 272 ​​of December 29, 1989), the Ministry of Mechanical Engineering formed on January 1, 1990 became the legal successor to the dissolved ministry for electrical engineering and electronics.

Minister of the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

• Otfried Steger 1966–1982
• Felix Meier from 1982 to March 1990

Deputy Minister

• Karl Nendel from 1965 (afterwards State Secretary)
• Günther Kleiber 1966–1971
• Gerhard Merkel 1966–1969
• Helmut Weihrauch 1966–1973
• Uwe Boegelsack 1984–1987

function

The Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics was the central guidance and control body of the GDR Council of Ministers for the planning and management of the electrotechnical and electronic industry.

Subordinate companies

The following companies were directly subordinate to the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics:

• VEB Kombinat Robotron , Dresden
• VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik Leipzig , later Berlin
• VEB Kombinat Elektroenergieanlagenbau, Leipzig
• VEB Carl Zeiss Jena
• VEB Kombinat automation plant construction, Berlin
• VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt
• Kombinat VEB Electronic Components, Teltow
• Combine VEB NARVA “Rosa Luxemburg” , Berlin
• Kombinat VEB Keramische Werke, Hermsdorf / Thuringia
• Kombinat VEB Kabelwerk Oberspree “Wilhelm Pieck”, Berlin
• Combine VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert"
• VEB Kombinat Elektromaschinenbau Dresden
• Kombinat VEB Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke Hans Beimler Hennigsdorf
• VEB Kombinat Radio and Television, Staßfurt
• VEB Kombinat Fahrzeugelektrik Ruhla
• Combine VEB Elektrogerätewerk Suhl
• Kombinat VEB Pentacon , Dresden
• VE foreign trade company electrical engineering export-import, Berlin
• VE foreign trade company Heim Elektric Export-Import, Berlin
• VEB Elektro-Consult Berlin

Areas of responsibility

The Ministry's industrial sector included:

• heavy current, BMSR and communication systems construction,
• the high and low voltage industry,
• the cable industry,
• technical ceramics,
• of electrical engineering ,
• the data processing equipment and office machine industry ,
• the electronic component industry ,
• the electronic communications equipment and measuring equipment industry,
• the photo, cinema and optical industries,
• scientific equipment manufacturing,
• the electrotechnical and electronic consumer goods industry ,

Web links

• Federal Archives DG 10 - Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics