Central organ of state power

A central organ of state power in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was an institution whose factual, personal and functional competence extended to the entire state territory.

The most important central organs of the GDR were:

• the People's Chamber

• the Council of Ministers

• the National Defense Council

• the supreme court of the GDR

• the Attorney General of the GDR

The central organs of state power also included the organs of the Council of Ministers:

• the ministries

• the State Planning Commission

• the State Secretariats

• central offices u. a.

In accordance with the prevailing doctrine of state rule in the GDR (i.e. democratic centralism ), the local organs of state power were bound by the decisions of the central organs in the form of their statutory provisions.