Ministry for higher education and technical schools in the GDR

The Ministry of Higher and Technical Education (abbreviated: MHF) of the GDR was the authority for the coordination of higher education and technical education in the GDR , which was given ministerial status from 1967 .

Responsibility and duties

By issuing various policy documents and directives, the ministry was responsible for long-term development planning in the entire higher education sector. Taking into account the requirements of the state planning commission and the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry designed the annual student numbers, budget and investments as well as personnel requirements and wage payments. In addition, it also had a decisive influence on the principles and content of university education, research and the qualification of university and technical college cadres.

history

The authority, which during its existence always belonged to the Council of Ministers of the GDR , was founded in 1951, initially without ministerial status, as the so-called “State Secretariat for Higher Education”. In 1958 the name of the authority was changed to "State Secretariat for Higher and Technical Schools". In 1967 the authority was given the name "Ministry for Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR" together with ministerial status.

With the turnaround , the ministry was dissolved. In the Modrow government , the Ministry of Education was from 18 November 1989 under Minister Hans-Heinz Emons as the successor organization.

Publications

The organ of the ministry was the magazine Das Hochschulwesen .

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State Secretaries

• Gerhard Harig ( SED ) (April 22, 1951 to April 26, 1957)
• Wilhelm Girnus (SED) (April 26, 1957–1962)
• Ernst-Joachim Gießmann (SED) (1962–1967)

minister

• Ernst-Joachim Gießmann (SED) (1967–1970)
• Hans-Joachim Böhme (SED) (1970–1989)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rayk Einax: Practiced integration. GDR foreign policy and the friendship treaties of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . In: University in Socialism: Studies on the History of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945–1990). Vol. 1, edited by Uwe Hoßfeld, Tobias Kaiser and Heinz Mestrup, Cologne (and others) 2007, 585–596, here 587.