4th Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic

The following overview lists the ministers and state secretaries of the 4th Council of Ministers of the GDR from 14 November 1963, to 14 July 1967.

Fifth cabinet of Otto Grotewohl Cabinet Grotewohl V
4th government of the German Democratic Republic
Date formed	14 November 1963 (1963-11-14)
Date dissolved	21 September 1964 (1964-09-21)
People and organisations
Head of government	Otto Grotewohl
No. of ministers	22
History
Predecessor	Grotewohl IV
Successor	Stoph I

Ministries

The government consisted of:

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party
Chairman	Otto Grotewohl	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
First Deputy Chairman	Willi Stoph	14 November 1963	24 September 1964		SED
Deputy Chairman	Alexander Abusch	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
	Erich Apel	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
	Margarete Wittkowski	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		LDPD
	Max Sefrin	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		CDU
	Lothar Bolz	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		NDPD
	Paul Scholz	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		DBD
	Bruno Leuschner	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry of Construction	Wolfgang Junker	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry of Finance	Willy Rumpf	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Lothar Bolz	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		NDPD
Ministry of the Interior	Friedrich Dickel	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry of Justice	Hilde Benjamin	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry for Post and Telecommunications	Rudolph Schulze	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		CDU
Ministry of Public Education	Margot Honecker	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Minister of State Security	Erich Mielke	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Minister for Foreign Trade	Julius Balkow	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry of Transport	Erwin Kramer	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Ministry of Health	Max Sefrin	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		CDU

Committees

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party
Chairman of the State Planning Commission	Erich Apel	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Chairman of the People's Economic Council	Alfred Neumann	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Chairman of the Agricultural Council	Georg Ewald	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED
Chairman of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection	Heinz Matthes	14 November 1963	21 September 1964		SED

Sources

• Herbert Hömig (1985), "Loch, Hans", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 14, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 742–743; (full text online)
• Wer war wer in der DDR?
• Carl Steinhoff: erster DDR-Innenminister : Wandlungen eines bürgerlichen Sozialisten / Lutz Maeke
• "BIOGRAPHISCHE DATENBANKEN". election.de (in German). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
• Gesetz über die Regierung der DDR: Online-Veröffentlichung, retrieved 10 January 2018
• Gesetz über die Bildung eines Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit: http://www.verfassungen.de/de/ddr/mfsbildung50.htm Online-Veröffentlichung, retrieved 10 January 2018.