German People's Council

The German People's Council in the years 1948 and 1949 a political body in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. Like the German people's congresses was the work of the German People's Council of the public work, in which the SED represented their all-German claim.

First German People's Council

The First German People's Council emerged from the Second German People's Congress, the 17-18. March 1948 met. It consisted of 300 voting members of the SBZ. At the constituent meeting of 100 people were co-opted from the western zones to emphasize the all-German claim.

The organization of the People's Council was similar to that of a parliament (even if it lacked the legitimacy of an election ): It was elected an executive committee and set up committees. It gave its rules of procedure. While the bourgeois parties attached importance to the finding that the People's Council should not be a ( pre-) Parliament, the SED tried to present it as all-German parliament the People's Council.

The selection of the members of the People's Council had been made so that the SED had a large majority. The SED itself turned 153 originating from the SBZ deputies. These were joined by the members of the mass organizations that were SED members for the most part. CDU (55 members) and the Liberal Democratic Party (56 members) possessed 111 mandates. Also in the Bureau and all committees ordered the SED has an absolute majority. The SED also provided the Committee Chairman (up to the Judiciary Committee ( Liberal Democratic Party ) and the Committee for a peace treaty (CDU ) ). Later was added nor the Committee on agricultural issues for the CDU.

Constitutional Committee

In the People's Council, a constitutional committee was formed, which should work out a constitution for the German Democratic Republic under the leadership of Otto Grotewohl (SED ). In doing so, the committee should be based on an already developed in November 1946 draft of the SED. The report drafted by the committee draft was approved by the People's Council on 22 October 1948, formally adopted on 19 March 1949. The proposal was then referred to the Third German People's Congress for approval.

Bodies

Bureau:

  • Chairman: Wilhelm Pieck (SED )
  • Deputy: Wilhelm Külz (LDP )
  • Deputy: Otto Nuschke (CDU )

The Bureau had 20 members (SED 10, LDP 4, CDU 4, no party 2, and 9 other members from the Western zones )

Secretariat:

  • Chairman: Erich Gniffke (SED )
  • Members: Charlotte Bahr
  • Georg Dertinger (CDU )
  • Lieutenant Arthur (LDP )
  • Paul Merker (SED )

Committees:

  • Committee on Peace Treaty Chairman: Otto Nuschke (CDU ), Substitute: Hermann Matern (SED )
  • 21 members (SED 4, CDU 3, LDP 2, fdgb 3, VdgB 1, 2 DFD FDJ 2, Cultural Alliance 2, VVN 2)
  • Chairman: Otto Grotewohl (SED ). Deputy: Reinhold Lobedanz (CDU )
  • 21 members (SED 4, CDU 3, 3 LDP, fdgb 3, VdgB 1, 2 DFD, FDJ second Cultural Association 1, VVN 2)
  • 22 members (SED 4, CDU 3, 3 LDP, fdgb 3, VdgB 1, 2 DFD, FDJ 2, Cultural Alliance 2, VVN 2)
  • Chair: Helmut R. Külz, (LDP ), Substitute: Hilde Benjamin ( SED)
  • 22 members (SED 4, CDU 3, 3 LDP, fdgb 3, VdgB 1, 2 DFD, FDJ 2, Cultural Alliance 2, VVN 2)
  • Chair: Heinrich Deiters ( Cultural Association ) (SED ), Substitute: Horst Brasch (FDJ ) ( SED)
  • 22 members (SED 4, CDU 3, 3 LDP, fdgb 3, VdgB 1, 2 DFD, FDJ 2, Cultural Alliance 2, VVN 2)
  • Chair: Bernhard Goering ( fdgb ) (SED ), Substitute ( VVN )
  • 22 members (SED 4, CDU 5, 3 LDP, fdgb 3, VdgB 1, 2 DFD, FDJ second Cultural Alliance 2, VVN 2)
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