New economic system of planning and management

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The New Economic System of Planning and Management (NÖS or NÖSPL), adopted on July 15, 1963, was a state program to reform the planned economy in the GDR . It provided for elements such as performance bonuses for workers and greater independence for companies (decentralization). As a result, labor productivity rose by seven percent in 1964.

From 1963, the NÖS was largely developed by Erich Apel , Günter Mittag , Wolfgang Berger , Helmut Koziolek and Herbert Wolf . It was by the resolutions of the VI. SED party congress under Walter Ulbricht approved in January 1963, although it was controversial within the SED . Its guidelines were adopted at the economic conference of the Central Committee of the SED on June 24 and 25, 1963 and approved by the GDR State Council on July 15. From 1967 the reform efforts were modified and were now called the Economic System of Socialism (ÖSS).

Both the NÖSPL and the ÖSS were successful from an economic point of view, but also led to an upgrading of decentralized units, such as management, at the expense of the central administration and economists at the expense of political officials. This led to increasing criticism within the SED, as the party's claim to absolute power was at risk. In particular, however, the reforms were viewed critically by the Soviet Union under Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , although the new system was based on Lenin's ideas on the New Economic Policy (NEP).

Economic policy was a key reason why Erich Honecker was able to replace Ulbricht as the first man in the state in 1971 with the support of the Soviet Union. With the 8th party congress of the SED , a new economic policy course was taken that reversed the reforms. The new guideline was the unity of economic and social policy proclaimed by Honecker .

See also

literature

  • Claus Krömke: The new economic system of planning and management of the national economy and the changes of Günter Mittag (booklets on GDR history 37) Helle Panke, Berlin 2008.
  • Jörg Roesler : The New Economic System - Change of Decoration or Paradigm Change? (Booklets on GDR history 3) Helle Panke, Berlin 1993.
  • "... an exciting period in the economic history of the GDR". Emergence and demolition of the new economic system in the 1960s. Contribution to a workshop (Pankower lectures 23/1 and 23/2) Helle Panke, Berlin 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German stories: The "New Economic System" of the GDR , queried on June 24, 2010
  2. ↑ Uwe Wesel : History of the law: From the early forms to the present. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-54716-4 . No. 308 (p. 516).
  3. ^ Deutsches Historisches Museum: Chronik 1963 , accessed on June 24, 2010