Ministry for Foreign Affairs (East Germany)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shortly MFAA, was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic. It had its seat at the former Schinkelplatz ( Street address Marx- Engels-Platz 2) on the Friedrichswerder in Berlin-Mitte right next to the Friedrichswerder church. The building was a white, 145 m long and 44 m high tower, which was built from 1964 to 1967 according to the designs of architect Josef Kaiser, Heinz Aust, Gerhard Lehmann and Lothar Kwasnitza. It was named after the Foreign Minister Otto Winzer popularly known as " winemaker parlors " or " vintners castle".
In 1996 the building was demolished for town planning purposes, to make room for the reconstruction of the historic city plan under the new system Schinkelplatz and reconstruction of the building of the Academy of Architecture.
The State Department was the lead in the diplomatic service of the GDR, represented by the Foreign Minister, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and the numerous State. From the actual political influence of her foreign minister stood behind the respective Central Committee secretary for foreign policy in the Politburo of the SED.
Secretary of State of the GDR
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990
2 Lothar de Maizière exercised the office after the withdrawal of the SPD ( and with it, Markus Meckel's ) from the provisional government and in personal union with the Prime Minister of the GDR.