National Council of the GDR for the maintenance and dissemination of the German cultural heritage
The National Council of the GDR for the maintenance and dissemination of the German cultural heritage, or mostly for short "Erberat", was a body that was composed of the chairmen of the state organs (except the GDR Council of Ministers ) and the heads of important cultural, scientific and social institutions. Overall, had the GDR - Ministers subordinate institution 25 members; the respective minister of culture held the chair. This body was constituted on September 18, 1980, in the house of the Council of Ministers of the GDR in Berlin.
The tasks of the Hereditary Council consisted primarily of planning and organizing anniversaries and memorial days . Thus the committee was an important propaganda role in the cultural policy of the SED to: With its help, the importance of the national heritage should be underlined and the socialist national culture be further pronounced.
Among other things, the following projects were planned and initiated by the inheritance council:
- Planning a theater museum
- Popular scientific presentation on the life and work of the Weimar classics
- Establishment of 48 new museums between 1980 and 1985
- Research into the operational history of combines and individual branches of industry
- Initiatives for the preservation, development and use of material evidence of production history and technical monuments
One of the last major resolutions of the “National Council for the Care and Dissemination of German Cultural Heritage ” comprised a five-year “honor cycle”, beginning in 1987 with Arnold Zweig's 100th birthday and ending with Johannes R. Becher's 100th birthday in 1991 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.nd-archiv.de/ausgabe/1980-09-19
- ^ Homeland GDR. Adventures. Considerations. Findings. Documents, including Dieter Götze: "Nothing should be lost to us", Ed. Horst Jäkel, GNN-Verlag Schkeuditz 2015, p. 176 ff., ISBN 978-3-89819-416-7