Economic Council of the GDR

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The Volkswirtschaftsrat der GDR ( VWR ) was a central organ of the GDR's Council of Ministers in the German Democratic Republic .

It was formed in July 1961 by spinning off the Main Industrial Department and the Main Material Supply Department from the State Planning Commission . The purpose of the council should be an independent "central state body" for the management of the central and local industry as well as for the "regulation of the basic questions of the handicrafts and service companies".

As the central organ for the planning and management of the industry, the VWR developed the annual plan for the industry on the basis of the resolutions of the Council of Ministers, the perspective plan , the orientation indicators and the guidelines of the State Planning Commission. It was the task of the VWR to implement the principles of economic policy established by the Central Committee of the SED and the government through its industrial departments, the VVB and the economic councils of the districts .

The individual industrial departments of the VWR were fully responsible for the preparation and balancing of the annual plan for their economic area and directed the VVB, scientific institutes and project planning offices assigned to them, taking into account the responsibility and independence of the VVB. The VWR had the right to issue instructions to the central economic authorities and district economic councils. Alfred Neumann was appointed head of the VWR .

In the course of development it turned out to be inappropriate to direct the grown industry from a centralized body like the VWR. Therefore the Council of Ministers decided on December 22nd, 1965 to dissolve the VWR. As a result of the dissolution, a number of industrial ministries were created or re-established in 1965.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Christian Ludz with the help of Johannes Kuppe: DDR Handbuch . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations in the FRG. 1st edition. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1979, ISBN 978-3-8046-8515-4 , p. 1144 .