Modrow government

In the course of the peaceful revolution, the Modrow government formed the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 13./18. November 1989 until the free parliamentary elections on March 18, 1990 . It was determined by the members of the still unfree elected People's Chamber and, as an all-party government, consisted of members of the SED / PDS and the bloc parties and mass organizations in the People's Chamber .

On February 5, 1990, Modrow accepted representatives of the new opposition groups in the central round table as non- portfolio ministers in the government. The government of national responsibility was established by April 12, 1990 . Subsequently, the de Maizière government , which emerged from the Alliance for Germany , took over government affairs and accession negotiations until reunification on October 3, 1990.

Modrow Government - November 18, 1989 to April 12, 1990

Office	Surname	Political party
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Hans Modrow	SED / PDS
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister for the Economy	Christa Luft	SED / PDS
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Local State Bodies	Peter Moreth	LDPD
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Church Affairs	Lothar de Maizière (resigned January 25, 1990, managing director until February 9, 1990)	CDU
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Oskar Fischer	SED / PDS
Minister of the Interior	Lothar Ahrendt	SED / PDS
Minister of Defense	Theodor Hoffmann	SED / PDS
Minister of Finance and Prices	Uta Nickel (until January 24, 1990) Walter Siegert	SED / PDS
Minister for Education and Youth	Hans-Heinz Emons (Minister for Education from November 30, 1989)	SED / PDS
Minister of Culture	Dietmar Keller	SED / PDS
Chairman of the State Planning Commission	Gerhard Schürer (until January 10, 1990) Hans-Joachim Lauck	SED / PDS SED / PDS
Chairman of the Economic Committee (from January 11, 1990)	Karl Grünheid	SED / PDS
Minister for Heavy Industry	Kurt Singhuber	SED / PDS
Minister of Mechanical Engineering	Karl Grünheid (until January 12, 1990) Hans-Joachim Lauck	SED / PDS SED / PDS
Minister for Light Industry	Gunter Halm	NDPD
Minister of Science and Technology	Peter-Klaus Budig	LDPD
Minister for Trade and Supply	Manfred Flegel	NDPD
Minister for Construction and Housing	Gerhard Baumgärtel (resignation January 25, 1990, managing director until February 9, 1990)	CDU
Minister for Foreign Trade	Gerhard Beil	SED / PDS
Minister for Tourism	Bruno Benthien	LDPD
Minister for Health and Social Affairs	Klaus Thielmann	SED / PDS
Minister of Justice	Hans-Joachim Heusinger (until January 10, 1990) Kurt Wünsche	LDPD LDPD
Minister of Post and Telecommunications	Klaus Wolf (resignation on January 25, 1990, managing director until February 9, 1990)	CDU
Minister of Transport	Heinrich Scholz (until February 1990) Herbert Keddi	SED / PDS
Minister for Environment and Water Management	Hans Reichelt (until January 10, 1990) Peter Diederich	DBD DBD
Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Industry	Hans Watzek	DBD
Minister for Labor and Wages	Hannelore Mensch	SED / PDS
Head of the Office for National Security (until January 10, 1990)	Wolfgang Schwanitz	SED / PDS
Government spokesman and head of the press office	Wolfgang Meyer	SED / PDS
State Secretary and Head of the Office for Youth and Sport (from November 30, 1989)	Wilfried Possner	SED / PDS
Minister without Portfolio (from February 5, 1990)	Tatjana Boehm Rainer Eppelmann Sebastian Pflugbeil Gerd Poppe Walter Romberg Klaus Schlüter Wolfgang Ullmann Matthias Platzeck not occupied	UFV DA NF IFM SDP GL DJ GP VL

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• Data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag 1994 to 2003 . Nomos-Verlag, ISBN 978-3832913953 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Because of Modrow's support for reunification, the United Left, which was also represented at the round table, did not participate in the “government of national responsibility”.