Central Commission for State Control

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The Central Commission for State Control (ZKK) was an executive body of the SED in the German Democratic Republic . It was founded on May 29, 1948 by the German Economic Commission in the Soviet zone of occupation and converted into the Workers and Peasants Inspection (ABI) in 1963 .

history

The ZKK was conceived as a control body of the planned economy . She soon devoted herself mainly to various forms of white-collar crime, such as B. the compensation transactions, in which the SMAD was partly involved in addition to the administrations and the SED . The ZKK actually took on tasks that were only available to the judiciary. At the end of the 1940s, however, the judiciary was not yet dominated by the SED. In addition, the ZKK arranged show trials against the private sector and cooperatives. B. against the Continental-Gas-Gesellschaft ( Conti affair ), Solvay and others.

The former ZKK (1948–1949 Central Control Commission at the DWK ) and later the ZKSK (1949–1963) was a central state body with the rank of a ministry, acting on its own initiative, on behalf of party and state bodies or on the basis of tips or complaints carried out controls of citizens in the state and economic apparatus. In the first few years in particular, there were direct interventions in criminal prosecution and jurisdiction in coordination with the SED leadership. Subordinate to the headquarters were state control commissions and / or authorized representatives in the districts as well as district control officers, representatives in economic focal points and voluntary people's control committees. The areas of responsibility of the ministries for state security , national defense and foreign affairs as well as the SED and the bloc parties were excluded from controls by the ZKSK . The workers and peasants inspection formed in 1963 followed up on the apparatus of the ZKSK (DC 14).

The chairmen of the Central Commission for State Control were:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Broszat; Hermann Weber (ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 269
  2. ↑ Jutta Braun: The Central Commission for State Control. Economic criminal law and expropriation policy in the founding and early phase of the GDR. In: Dierk Hoffmann; Hermann Wentker (Ed.): The last year of the SBZ. Political course setting and continuities in the process of founding the GDR. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-64506-4 , pp. 169-184
  3. ↑ Federal Archives: Central Commission for State Control (ZKSK)

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