3rd Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic

The following overview lists the ministers and state secretaries of the 3rd Council of Ministers of the GDR from December 8, 1958, to October 7, 1963.

Fourth cabinet of Otto Grotewohl Cabinet Grotewohl IV
3rd government of the German Democratic Republic
Date formed	8 December 1958 (1958-12-08)
Date dissolved	7 October 1963 (1963-10-07)
People and organisations
Head of government	Otto Grotewohl
No. of ministers	22
History
Predecessor	Grotewohl III
Successor	Grotewohl V

Ministries

The government consisted of:

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party
Chairman	Otto Grotewohl	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
First Deputy Chairman	Walter Ulbricht	8 December 1958	12 September 1960		SED
Deputy Chairman	Heinrich Rau	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
	Willi Stoph	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
	Hans Loch	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		LDPD
	Max Sefrin	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		CDU
	Lothar Bolz	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		NDPD
	Paul Scholz	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		DBD
	Bruno Leuschner	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry	Hans Reichelt	8 December 1958	7 February 1963 replaced by Agricultural Council		DBD
Ministry of Construction	Ernst Scholz	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry of Finance	Willy Rumpf	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Lothar Bolz	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		NDPD
Ministry of the Interior	Karl Maron	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry of Justice	Hilde Benjamin	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry for Post and Telecommunications	Friedrich Burmeister	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		CDU
Ministry of Public Education	Alfred Lemmnitz	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Minister of State Security	Erich Mielke	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade	Heinrich Rau	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry of Transport	Erwin Kramer	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Ministry of Health	Max Sefrin	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		CDU

Committees

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party
Chairman of the State Planning Commission	Bruno Leuschner	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
	Karl Mewis	6 July 1961	12 January 1963		SED
	Erich Apel	12 January 1963	7 October 1963		SED
First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission	Kurt Gregor	8 December 1958	6 July 1961		SED
	Rudolf Müller	6 July 1961	7 October 1963		SED
	Karl Grünheid	March 1963	7 October 1963		SED
Chairman of the Agricultural Council	Karl-Heinz Bartsch	7 February 1963	9 February 1963		SED
	Georg Ewald	9 February 1963	7 October 1963		SED
Chairman of the Central Committee for State Control	Ernst Wabra	8 December 1958	7 October 1963		SED
Chairman of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection	Heinz Matthes	14 May 1963	7 October 1963		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.