Special telephone network of the Council of Ministers of the GDR

The special telephone network of the Council of Ministers of the GDR , also known as R-Netz (government telephone network), was an independent dial-up telephone network of the Council of Ministers of the GDR. It existed and worked completely independently of all other existing telecommunications networks, such as the public telephone network of the German Post Office of the GDR , the special network S1 , officially "The integrated staff network of the party and state leadership of the GDR and the armed organs", the BASA network the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the narrowband radio link of the party and other networks. The group of participants in the R network was determined according to the “nomenclature of subscriber lines” of the chairman of the Council of Ministers, the use of the subscriber lines was function-related.

The administration of the network was under the government's telecommunications office, which was located directly at the office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR . The government's telecommunications office worked closely with all partners in the network, including the MfNV with the main news center in Strausberg.

The Ministry for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR was responsible for the technical implementation and monitoring .

The R-Netz had a clearly defined structure, there were connected:

• Council of Ministers and its ministries, Council of State and People's Chamber as well as the Central Committee of the SED
• State and social organizations
• Chairmen of party and mass organizations
• District ( magistrate or council of the district and SED district management )
• District (council of the district and SED district leadership )
• Important economic companies (central, district or district-managed companies)

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  Leaflet on the use of the R network (1988)

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  Directory of subscribers of the R network (1988)