Council of Ministers of the GDR (1967–1971)

The Council of Ministers was in office from July 13, 1967 to November 26, 1971.

On July 13, 1967, the newly formed Council of Ministers of the GDR met for its constituent session. At the suggestion of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Willi Stoph, the Council of Ministers decided to set up the Presidium, which included the Chairman, the 12 Deputies of the Chairman, the Minister of Finance Siegfried Böhm and the Chairman of the Agriculture Council Georg Ewald.

Members of the Council of Ministers

Office	Surname	Political party	State Secretary	Political party
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Willi Stoph	SED	Rudolf Rost	SED
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Alfred Neumann from June 26, 1968 Horst Sindermann from May 14, 1971	SED SED
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Alexander Abusch Julius Balkow Kurt Fichtner Manfred Flegel Wolfgang Rauchfuß Gerhard Schürer Max Sefrin Werner Title Gerhard Weiss Herbert Weiz Kurt Wünsche Günther Kleiber from June 24, 1971	SED SED SED NDPD SED SED CDU DBD SED SED LDPD SED
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Otto winemaker	SED	Günter Kohrt	SED
Minister of the Interior	Friedrich Dickel	SED	Herbert Grünstein	SED
Minister of Defense	Heinz Hoffmann	SED
Minister of Finance	Siegfried Boehm	SED	Horst Kaminsky	SED
Minister for Popular Education	Margot Honecker	SED	Werner Lorenz	SED
Minister of Culture	Klaus Gysi	SED	Horst Brasch	SED
Chairman of the State Planning Commission	Gerhard Schürer	SED
Minister for Materials Management	Alfred Neumann until June 26, 1968 Erich Haase	SED SED
Minister for Primary Industry	Klaus Siebold	SED	Wolfgang Mitzinger (from 1968)	SED
Minister for Ore Mining and Metallurgy	Kurt Singhuber	SED	Otto Menzel	SED
Minister for Chemical Industry	Günther Wyschofsky	SED	Karl-Heinz Schäfer (until 1969) Karl Kaiser (from 1969)	SED SED
Minister of Electrical Engineering and Electronics	Otfried Steger	SED	Karl Nendel	SED
Minister for Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering	Gerhard Zimmermann	SED	Hans Frenzel	SED
Minister for Processing Machinery and Vehicle Construction	Rudi Georgi	SED	Walter Boehme	SED
Minister for Light Industry	Johann Wittik	SED	Karl Bettin	SED
Minister for District Managers and the Food Industry	Erhard Krack	SED	Udo-Dieter Wange	SED
Minister of Science and Technology	Günter Prey	SED	Klaus Stubenrauch (from 1969)	SED
Minister for Trade and Supply	Günter Sieber	SED	Kurt Lemke Kurt Bernheier (from 1968)	SED SED
Minister of Construction	Wolfgang Junker	SED	Karl Schmiechen	SED
Minister for Foreign Trade	Horst Sölle	SED	Dieter Albrecht Horst Scholtz (until 1969) Gerhard Beil (from 1969)	SED SED SED
Chairman of the Committee of the Workers and Peasants Inspection	Heinz Matthes	SED
Minister of Health	Max Sefrin	CDU	Michael Gehring († 1969)	SED
Minister of Justice	Kurt wishes	LDPD	Hans Ranke	SED
Minister of Post and Telecommunications	Rudolph Schulze	CDU	Richard Serinek	SED
Minister of Transport	Erwin Kramer until December 14, 1970 Otto Arndt	SED	Heino Weiprecht	SED
Chairman of the Agriculture Council	Georg Ewald	SED
Minister for State Security	Erich Mielke	SED
Minister for Higher and Technical Education	Ernst-Joachim Gießmann until September 16, 1970 Hans-Joachim Böhme	SED	Günter Bernhardt (from 1967) Hans-Joachim Böhme (from 1968)	SED SED
Minister for the Direction and Control of District Councils	Fritz Scharfenstein	SED
Head of the Office of Prices	Walter Halbritter	SED

See also

• Political system of the GDR
• Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic

Individual evidence

1. ^ Constituent meeting of the Council of Ministers . In: Neue Zeit , July 15, 1967, p. 1 u. 2.