Council of Ministers of the GDR (1958–1963)
The Council of Ministers was confirmed by the People's Chamber on December 8, 1958 and sworn in by the President of the GDR, Wilhelm Pieck, on the same evening. At the start of work, the Council of Ministers consisted of 22 members.
Members of the Council of Ministers (December 8, 1958)
| function | Official | State Secretary | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Political party | Surname | Political party | |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Otto Grotewohl | SED | ||
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Walter Ulbricht | SED | ||
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Heinrich Rau | SED | ||
| Willi Stoph | SED | |||
| Hans Loch | LDPD | |||
| Max Sefrin | CDU | |||
| Lothar Bolz | NDPD | |||
| Paul Scholz | DBD | |||
| Bruno Leuschner | SED | |||
| Chairman of the State Planning Commission | Bruno Leuschner | SED | Anton Ackermann | SED |
| First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission | Kurt Gregor | SED | ||
| Minister for National Defense | Willi Stoph | SED | ||
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | Lothar Bolz | NDPD |
Georg Handke Otto winemaker |
SED SED |
| Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade | Heinrich Rau | SED | Willy Hüttenrauch | |
| Minister of the Interior | Karl Marron | SED |
Hans Jendretzky Herbert Grünstein |
SED SED |
| Minister of Finance | Willy hull | SED | Helmut Sandig | SED |
| Minister for Popular Education | Alfred Lemmnitz | SED | Werner Lorenz | SED |
| Minister for State Security | Erich Mielke | SED | ||
| Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Minister of Agriculture, Registration and Forestry |
Hans Reichelt | DBD | Bruno Skodowski | SED |
| Minister for Trade and Supply | Curt Wach | SED |
Curt-Heinz Merkel Werner Jarowinsky |
SED SED |
| Minister of Health | Max Sefrin | CDU |
Jenny Matern Willi Jahnke |
SED SED |
| Minister of Transport | Erwin Kramer | SED |
Karl Salomon Heino Weiprecht |
SED SED |
| Minister of Post and Telecommunications | Friedrich Burmeister | CDU | Richard Serinek | SED |
| Minister of Construction | Ernst Scholz | SED | Gerhard Kosel | SED |
| Minister of Culture | Alexander Abusch | SED | Erich Wendt | SED |
| Minister of Justice | Hilde Benjamin | SED | Heinrich Toeplitz | CDU |
| State Secretary for Higher Education and Technical Education | Wilhelm Girnus | SED | ||
| Chairman of the Central Committee for State Control | Ernst Wabra | SED | ||
New members of the Council of Ministers
| function | Official | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Appointment as a member of the Council of Ministers |
annotation | |
| Chairman of the Economics Council | Alfred Neumann | July 6, 1961 | according to the decision of the People's Chamber of July 6, 1961 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council | Erich Markowitsch | October 19, 1962 | according to the decision of the People's Chamber of October 19, 1962 |
| Minister for all-round coordination and control of the implementation of the decisions of the Central Committee of the SED and the Council of Ministers in the state apparatus | Willi Stoph | July 14, 1960 | appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers by resolution of the Council of Ministers on July 4, 1962 |
| Minister for the Coordination of Fundamental Economic Questions | Bruno Leuschner | July 6, 1961 | according to the decision of the People's Chamber of July 6, 1961 |
| State Secretary for Research and Technology (Secretary of the Research Council) | Hans Frühauf | July 6, 1961 | according to the decision of the People's Chamber of July 6, 1961 |
| President of the German Central Bank | Rolf Wetzel | from October 19, 1962 | |
| Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission for the Coordination of Long-Term Plans and Annual Economic Plans | Hugo Meiser | July 14, 1960 | With the decision of the People's Chamber on July 6, 1961, the function no longer corresponded to that of a member of the Council of Ministers, the minister was dismissed |
| Deputy of the chairman of the State Planning Commission for the questions of the economic councils | Walter Hieke | July 14, 1960 | With the decision of the People's Chamber on July 6, 1961, the function no longer corresponded to that of a member of the Council of Ministers, the minister was dismissed |
| First deputy to the chairman of the State Planning Commission for Perspective Planning | Gerhard Schürer | February 28, 1963 | by resolution of the 61st meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 28, 1963, confirmed by the People's Chamber on April 17, replaced the office of the previous sole First Deputy |
| First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission for Annual Planning | Karl Grünheid | February 28, 1963 | by resolution of the 61st meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 28, 1963, confirmed by the People's Chamber on April 17, replaced the office of the previous sole First Deputy |
| Chairman of the State Committee for the Collection and Purchase of Agricultural Products | Helmut Koch | on January 12, 1963 | by resolution of the Council of Ministers, confirmed by the People's Chamber on April 17th |
| Members of the Council of Ministers without portfolio | Gerhard Grüneberg | October 19, 1962 | In accordance with the decision of the People's Chamber of October 19, 1962, member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, released from his function as a member of the Council of Ministers by resolution of the Council of Ministers on January 12, 1963, Grüneberg took over activities in the Central Committee of the SED |
| Erich Apel | October 19, 1962 | according to the decision of the People's Chamber of October 19, 1962 | |
| Chairman of the Committee of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection | Heinz Matthes | from May 1963 | |
Personnel changes
| function | Official | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Reason for the replacement |
successor | annotation | |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Walter Ulbricht | Ulbricht was elected Chairman of the State Council in September 1960 | Willi Stoph | But Stoph did not take office until July 4, 1962 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Heinrich Rau | died on March 23, 1961 | ||
| Hans Loch | Loch died on July 13, 1960 | Max Suhrbier | Suhrbier was appointed on March 24, 1961 | |
| Paul Scholz | Released from his position by resolution of the Council of Ministers of February 28, 1963 | - | ||
| - | Margarete Wittkowski | appointed by resolution of the Presidium of the MR on February 9, 1961 | ||
| - | Alexander Abusch | appointed by resolution of the Presidium of the MR on February 23, 1961 | ||
| Chairman of the State Planning Commission | Bruno Leuschner | was appointed Minister for the Coordination of Basic Economic Issues by resolution of the People's Chamber of July 6, 1961 | Karl Mewis | from July 6, 1961, relieved of his function as a member of the Council of Ministers by resolution of the Council of Ministers of February 28, 1963 |
| Erich Apel | from the beginning of February 1963 | |||
| First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission | Kurt Gregor | dismissed from office by decision of the People's Chamber of July 6, 1961 | Rudolf Müller | from July 4, 1962, recalled on February 28, 1963, replaced by two first deputies |
| Minister for National Defense | Willi Stoph | was appointed Minister for the all-round coordination and control of the implementation of the decisions of the Central Committee of the SED and the Council of Ministers in the state apparatus | Heinz Hoffmann | from July 14, 1960 |
| Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade | Heinrich Rau | died on March 23, 1961 | Julius Balkow | from July 6, 1961 |
| Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Minister of Agriculture, Registration and Forestry |
Hans Reichelt | until February 6, 1963 | Karl-Heinz Bartsch | became its chairman when the Agriculture Council was founded |
| Chairman of the Agriculture Council | Karl-Heinz Bartsch | was replaced on February 9, 1963 due to the secret SS past | Georg Ewald | |
| Minister for Trade and Supply | Curt Wach | until July 10, 1959, after a statement by the government hospital, relieved of his function for health reasons | Curt-Heinz Merkel | from September 30, 1959 |
| Minister of Construction | Ernst Scholz | until February 6, 1962, released from office for health reasons | Wolfgang Junker | confirmed on April 17, 1963 by decision of the People's Chamber |
| Minister of Culture | Alexander Abusch | until February 23, 1961, then Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Hans Bentzien | |
| State Secretary for Higher Education and Technical Education | Wilhelm Girnus | Ernst-Joachim Giessmann | from July 4, 1962 | |
| State Secretary for Research and Technology (Secretary of the Research Council) | Hans Frühauf | Herbert Weiz | from July 4, 1962 | |
| Chairman of the Central Committee for State Control | Ernst Wabra | Hans Jendretzky | dissolved from November 1961, with the creation of the Workers and Peasants Inspection in May 1963 | |
| Head of the State Central Administration for Statistics | Heinz Rauch | at one on December 19, 1962 plane crash in Warsaw died | Arno Donda | from July 12, 1963 |
Members of the Council of Ministers at the end of the electoral term
At the end of the electoral period, which ended with the next Volkskammer election on October 20, 1963, the Council of Ministers consisted of 33 members. At this point in time, the DBD was the only bloc party to have no representative in the Council of Ministers.
| function | Official | State Secretary | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Political party | annotation | ||
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Otto Grotewohl | SED | from November 1960, Willi Stoph was in charge of running the business | |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Willi Stoph | SED | ||
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Max Sefrin | CDU | ||
| Lothar Bolz | NDPD | |||
| Bruno Leuschner | SED | |||
| Margarete Wittkowski | SED | |||
| Max Suhrbier | LDPD | |||
| Alexander Abusch | SED | |||
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | Lothar Bolz | NDPD | Otto Winzer (SED) | |
| Minister of the Interior | Karl Marron | SED | Herbert Grünstein (SED) | |
| Chairman of the State Planning Commission (from July 7, 1961 new planning commission) |
Erich Apel | SED | ||
| first deputy chairman of the State Planning Commission | Rudolf Müller | SED | ||
| Deputy of the chairman of the State Planning Commission for the questions of the economic councils | Walter Hieke | SED | ||
| Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission for the Coordination of Long-Term Plans and Annual Economic Plans | Karl Grünheid | SED | ||
| Chairman of the Economics Council | Alfred Neumann | SED | ||
| Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council | Erich Markowitsch | SED | ||
| Minister for National Defense | Heinz Hoffmann | SED | ||
| Minister for the Coordination of Fundamental Economic Questions | Bruno Leuschner | SED | ||
| Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade | Julius Balkow | SED | Willy Hüttenrauch | |
| Chairman of the Agriculture Council | Georg Ewald | SED | ||
| Minister of Finance | Willy hull | SED | Helmut Sandig | |
| Minister for Popular Education | Alfred Lemmnitz | SED | Werner Lorenz (SED) | |
| Minister for State Security | Erich Mielke | SED | ||
| Minister for Trade and Supply | Curt-Heinz Merkel | SED | ||
| Minister of Health | Max Sefrin | CDU | Willi Jahnke (SED) | |
| Minister of Transport | Erwin Kramer | SED |
Karl Salomon (SED) Heino Weiprecht (SED) |
|
| Minister of Post and Telecommunications | Friedrich Burmeister | CDU | Richard Serinek (SED) | |
| Minister of Construction | Wolfgang Junker | SED | ||
| President of the German Central Bank | Rolf Wetzel | SED | ||
| Minister of Justice | Hilde Benjamin | SED | ||
| Minister of Culture | Hans Bentzien | SED | ||
| State Secretary for Higher Education and Technical Education | Ernst-Joachim Giessmann | SED | ||
| State Secretary for Research and Technology (Secretary of the Research Council) | Herbert Weiz | SED | ||
| Chairman of the State Committee for the Collection and Purchase of Agricultural Products | Helmut Koch | SED | ||
| Chairman of the Committee of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection | Heinz Matthes | SED | ||
| Head of the State Central Administration for Statistics | Arno Donda | SED | ||
Governments of the GDR
Provisional government of the GDR (1949–1950) | 1950–1954 | 1954–1958 | 1958–1963 | 1963–1967 | 1967–1971 | 1971–1976 | 1976–1981 | 1981–1986 | 1986–1989 | Modrow government (1989–1990) | De Maizière government (1990)