List of Volkskammer members (5th election period)

This list provides an overview of all members of the People's Chamber of the GDR in the 5th legislative period (1967–1971).

Composition

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In the 1967 East German general election, according to official information, 99.93%[1] of the voters voted for the proposal of the National Front.

Faction Seats of GDR deputies Seats of Berlin representatives Total seats by party affiliation
SED 110 17 127 275
DBD 45 7 52 52
CDU 45 7 52 54
LDPD 45 7 52 53
NDPD 45 7 52 53
FDGB 60 8 68 -
DFD 30 5 35 -
FDJ 35 5 40 -
Kulturbund 15 3 22 -
Independent 13
Total 434 66 500 500

The election did not influence the strength of the factions. Their size was predetermined.

Presidium

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  • President of the People's Chamber
Johannes Dieckmann (LDPD) Deceased in 1969
Gerald Götting (CDU)
  • Deputy President of the People's Chamber
Hermann Matern (SED) Passed away on January 24, 1971
Friedrich Ebert (SED)
  • Members of the Presidium:
Hermann Kalb (CDU) Until 1969
Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (DFD)
Otto Gotsche (SED)
Ernst Goldenbaum (DBD)
Grete Groh-Kummerlöw (FDGB)
Margarete Müller (SED)
Wolfgang Rösser (NDPD)
Willi-Peter Konzok (LDPD) From 1969
Karl-Heinz Schulmeister (Kulturbund) From May 1969
Werner Engst (FDJ) From May 1969

Source:[2]

Faction Leaders

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  • Faction of the SED
Hermann Matern Passed away on January 24, 1971
Friedrich Ebert
  • Faction of the DBD
Leonhard Helmschrott
  • Faction of the CDU
Wolfgang Heyl
  • Faction of the LDPD
Rudolf Agsten
  • Faction of the NDPD
Wolfgang Rösser
  • Faction of the FDGB
Hans Jendretzky
  • Faction of the DFD
Katharina Kern
  • Faction of the FDJ
Johannes Rech
  • Faction of the Kulturbund
Karl-Heinz Schulmeister

Members of the Volkskammer

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Name[3] Faction Remarks
Alexander Abusch KB
Rudolf Agsten LDPD
Eberhard Alff SED
Kurt Anclam LDPD
Manfred von Ardenne KB
Reiner Arlt SED
Margarete Arnhold LDPD
Klaus-Rüdiger Arnold FDGB
Traute Arnold CDU
Hermann Axen SED
Annemarie Balke FDGB
Julius Balkow SED
Dieter Bartelt SED
Katarina Bartko LDPD
Edith Baumann SED Berlin representative
Helga Baumgärtel CDU
Lilli Becker LDPD
Wilhelm Behnke SED
Monika Berek CDU Berlin representative
Rolf Berger FDGB
Peter Bergner FDJ
Helmut Bernhöft FDGB
Dietrich Besler SED Berlin representative
Helmut Birckner FDGB
Siegfried Birnstengel DBD
Günter Bleisch FDGB Berlin representative
Bernhard Bode FDJ
Siegfried Böhm SED
Ute Börner DBD
Marta-Maria Böttcher NDPD
Walter Boltz DBD Berlin representative
Lothar Bolz NDPD
Friderun Bondzin KB
Bernhard Bott DBD
Alois Bräutigam SED
Hans Brachmann FDJ
Horst Brasch SED
Hella Brock KB
Gerhard Broll SED
Christoph Brückner LDPD
Hermann Budzislawski FDGB
Angelika Bullert FDJ
Kurt Burkhardt DBD
Johannes Chemnitzer SED
Gerhard Clausner SED on May 14, 1970, for Rep. Spitzner moved up
Manfred Clauss SED on December 13, 1968, for Rep. Nice move up
Friedrich Clermont SED
Erich Correns KB
Ursula Czeczot CDU
Franz Dahlem SED
Siegfried Dallmann NDPD
Hans Deckert NDPD
Peter Deistler FDJ
Gerd Delenschke NDPD Berlin representative
Friedrich Dickel SED
Johannes Dieckmann LDPD died on February 22, 1969
Käte Dienstbach FDJ Berlin representative
Herta Dippe FDGB
Regina Dittmar DFD
Horst Döll NDPD
Ursula Dörner DFD
Marianne Dorn NDPD
Konrad Dorow FDGB Berlin representative
Heinz Dreblow SED
Lothar Dreher CDU Berlin representative
Sigrid Dünnhaupt DBD
Rosemarie Dürrschlag FDJ
Paul Eberle LDPD Berlin representative
Friedrich Ebert SED
Harry Eckardt FDGB
Ernst Eichhorn SED
Klaus Elsner DBD Berlin representative
Gottfried Engelmann LDPD on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Thürmer moved up
Werner Engst FDJ
Albert Enke FDGB
Elisabeth Erdmann NDPD
Luise Ermisch SED
Georg Ewald SED
Manfred Ewald SED
Heinz Fahrenkrog FDGB
Herbert Fechner SED Berlin representative
Werner Feist LDPD
Kurt Fenske SED
Otto Fiedler DBD
Horst Fischer NDPD
Manfred Flegel NDPD
Rosemarie Flesch CDU
Peter Florin SED
Friedhelm Foerster NDPD Berlin representative
on August 13, 1968, for the deputy Löhr moved up
Erich Franz NDPD
Anna-Maria Freyer DFD
Paul Fröhlich SED deceased on September 19, 1970
Gisela Fuchs DFD
Hans-Peter Fürch FDJ
Otto Funke SED
Heinrich Gäbe SED
Ernst Gallerach SED
Heinz Gattung FDGB
Paul Geisler FDGB deceased on April 2, 1971
Peter Gerdum FDJ
Manfred Gerlach LDPD
Horst Gessner LDPD
Joachim-Ernst Gierspeck LDPD
Utta Gießner FDJ
Olga Glanz LDPD
Renate Glitza DFD
Rudi Glück LDPD Berlin representative
Horst Göring DBD Berlin representative
Willi Görß FDGB
Gerald Götting CDU
Ernst Goldenbaum DBD
Otto Gotsche SED
Erich Grabowski DBD
Willi Grandetzka DBD
Günther Grewe CDU
Grete Groh-Kummerlöw FDGB
Roberta Gropper FDGB Berlin representative
Manfred Grossman FDGB
Gerhard Grüneberg SED
Erich Grützner SED
Marie Gunder DBD
Wolfgang Guttke FDGB
Klaus Gysi KB
Hildegard Haase DBD
Karin Haback FDJ Berlin representative
Susanne Häber DBD
Heinz Hahne CDU
Kurt Hager SED
Werner Hager SED
Ruth Hahn DFD
Walter Halbritter SED
Willy Hallbauer SED on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Kiess moved up
Wolfram Haller CDU
Irmgard Haltinner SED Berlin representative
Gero Hammer NDPD Berlin representative
Roland Hammermüller DBD
Emmy Handke DFD Berlin representative
Brunhilde Hanke SED
Siegfried Hanusch FDGB
Werner Hartleib FDGB
Gertrud Hartmann DBD
Walter Hartung NDPD
Herbert Hasenbein FDGB
Edeltraud Haupt CDU
Kurt Haupt CDU
Walter Hauschild FDGB
Hildegard Heine SED
Horst Heinrich NDPD
Brunhilde Heinrichs SED
Günther Heinze FDGB
Leonhard Helmschrott DBD
Waltraut Hennig LDPD
Anneliese Hennlich CDU
Hartmut Henschel FDJ
Lieselott Herforth FDGB
Herbert Hertzsch FDGB
Fritz Herzberg FDGB
Hans-Joachim Heusinger LDPD
Wolfgang Heyl CDU
Inge Hieblinger DFD
Heino Hinze KB
Werner Hölzel LDPD
Friedrich Höpfner LDPD
Elisabeth Höpner FDGB
Anni Hoffmann SED
Heinz Hoffmann SED
Heinz-Rudolf Hoffmann CDU Berlin representative
Christa Hojer CDU
Christine Holfeld FDJ
Horst Holinski FDGB
Witho Holland LDPD Berlin representative
Ilse Holtzbecher CDU
Heinrich Homann NDPD
Erich Honecker SED
Margot Honecker SED
Fritz Hopf LDPD
Heinz Hoßfeld FDGB
Claus Howitz DBD
Claus-Jürgen Huch NDPD
Max Hübner FDGB
Wilfried Ihle FDGB
Helene Ilse FDGB
Gisela Jänsch SED
Günther Jahn FDJ
Gudrun Jakob FDJ
Werner Jarowinsky SED
Christa Jauch LDPD
Hans Jendretzky FDGB
Hans-Rainer John KB Berlin representative
Hertha Jung DFD
Karl Kaatz LDPD
Erich Kärger DBD
Susanne Kahlert DFD
Siegfried Kaiser FDGB Berlin representative
Hermann Kalb CDU
Werner Kalweit SED
Susi Kammerath SED Berlin representative
Werner Karwath CDU
Karl Kayser KB
Ruth Kellermann NDPD
Katharina Kern DFD
Heinz Kessler SED
Wulf-Peter Keuerleber FDJ
Gustav Kiesewetter LDPD
Bruno Kiesler SED
Kurt Kieß SED deceased on December 30, 1970
Friedrich Kind CDU
Franz Kirchner CDU
Rudolf Kirchner FDGB
Ruth Kirsch SED
Hermann Kirschstein FDGB
Helmtraut Klara DFD Berlin representative
Günther Kleiber SED
Gottfried Klepel CDU
Heinz Kliemt LDPD on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Suhrbier moved up
Wilfried Klöser FDGB
Claus-Dieter Knöfler LDPD
Hans Koch KB
Michael Köhler FDJ
Erwin Körber DBD Berlin representative
Lothar Kolbe CDU
Willi-Peter Konzok LDPD
Edda Kramer DFD
Erwin Kramer SED
Klaus Kraßmann NDPD
Martin Kraul KB
Johanna Krause DBD
Otto Krauss LDPD deceased on May 1, 1971
Rosemarie Krautzig CDU Berlin representative
Kurt Krenz SED
Walter Kresse SED
Horst Kreter NDPD Berlin representative
Werner Krolikowski SED
Bernhard Kromolski FDGB Berlin representative
Karsta Krüger FDJ
Liesbeth Krüger SED Berlin representative
Franz Kühlmann CDU
Gerhard Kühn LDPD Berlin representative
Rudolf Kühn FDJ
Hermann Kühne DBD
Joachim Kuehne FDGB
Hanna Kuner DFD Berlin representative
Traude Kunz SED
Gerhard Kupke SED
Alfred Kurella SED
Hannelore Kutschenreuter FDJ
Inge Kutter SED
Ursula Kutzner CDU
Werner Lamberz SED
Heinz Landgraf DBD
Elfriede Lange FDGB
Gerhard Lange CDU
Ilse Lange FDGB
Ingeburg Lange SED
Wolfgang Lange DBD
Marga Legal DFD Berlin representative
Hannelore Lehmann SED
Harri Leupold LDPD Berlin representative
Walburga Liedler DBD Berlin representative
Gerhard Lindner LDPD
Horst Linke DBD
Ruth Lisofsky FDGB
Johannes Löhn LDPD
Jonny Löhr NDPD Berlin representative died on July 15, 1967
Günter Loose SED
Ilse Lorenz DBD
Siegfried Lorenz FDJ
Werner Lorenz KB
Gerhard Lotz CDU
Johanna Ludwig NDPD
Heinz Lüder NDPD
Wolfgang Lungershausen SED
Hans Luthardt NDPD
Paul Luzemann FDGB
Günter Mähl NDPD Berlin representative
Boto Märtin DBD
Hans-Jürgen Mannweiller KB
Hermann Matern SED deceased on January 24, 1971
Alfred Mattheß FDGB Berlin representative
Heinz Matthes SED
Günter Mauritz SED
Heinrich Meier NDPD
Hella Meier FDJ
Renate Meißner NDPD
Werner Mennicke SED
Else Merke DBD
Charlotte Mewes DFD
Gerhard Rudolf Meyer KB Berlin representative
Erich Mielke SED
Gudrun Miethig CDU
Günter Mittag SED
Lore Mix DFD
Hans Modrow SED Berlin representative
Siegfried Mohr SED on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Matern moved up
Hans-Dietrich Möller NDPD
Günter Morge LDPD
Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt DFD
Erich Mückenberger SED
Emma Müller FDGB
Gerhard Müller NDPD
Inge Müller DFD
Jochen Müller FDJ Berlin representative
Joachim Müller FDGB
Heinz Müller SED Berlin representative
Herbert Müller DBD
Margarete Müller FDGB
Margarete Müller SED
Walter Müller SED
Gerhard Münch NDPD
Harald Naumann CDU
Konrad Naumann SED Berlin representative
Gudrun Nause DFD
Wolfgang Neefe NDPD
Heinz Neukrantz FDGB
Alfred Neumann SED
Anni Neumann FDGB
Erika Neumann FDGB
Gisela Neumann DFD
Leane Neumann FDJ
Adolf Niggemeier CDU
Edeltraut Nitz DBD
Albert Norden SED
Rose Nyland-Distler KB
Herbert Ott LDPD
Friedrich Otto NDPD
Martha Pässold DBD
Walter Parey FDGB on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Geisler moved up
Heike Pemsel CDU
Hans Günter Petzold CDU Berlin representative
Susanne Pfannenberg CDU
Roland Pfeffer NDPD
Ludwig Pfeiffer NDPD
Paul Pflock LDPD
Waltraud Piehl DFD
Sieglinde Pietsch DBD
Alois Pisnik SED
Arthur Ploetz SED
Rolf Poche SED
Hans-Joachim Pohl Culture Association
Klaus Polifka FDJ
Rudolf Porschitz NDPD
Fritz Preller FDGB
Alois Proksch CDU
Margot Pschebizin FDGB
Otto Püllmann LDPD on September 24, 1969, for Rep. Dieckmann moved up
Wolfgang Pusch FDJ on May 12, 1969, for Rep. Scheyok moved up
Max Putze SED
Bernhard Quandt SED
Jürgen Quinger FDJ
Erich Rätsch SED
Helga Rateitzak FDGB
Wolfgang Rauchfuss SED
Helene Rausche LDPD
Eberhard Rebling KB Berlin representative
Johannes Rech FDJ faction leader
Herbert Recknagel CDU
Ursula Redel FDJ
Hans Reichelt DBD
Anni Rein SED
Manfred Rentsch NDPD
Fritz Rick CDU Berlin representative
Walter Riedel CDU
Karl Rieke SED
Hans Rietz DBD
Hans Rodenberg SED
Ilse Rodenberg NDPD Berlin representative
Fritz Rösel FDGB
Wolfgang Rösser NDPD
Paul Roscher SED
Marianne Roß DBD
Ewald Roßbach DBD
Harald Rost SED
Christian-Wilhelm Rowoldt NDPD
Dorothea Rudolph NDPD
Otto Rühle NDPD deceased on April 6, 1969
Heike Samland CDU
Christa Samrowski FDJ
Gertrud Sasse LDPD
Paul Saul SED
Lilli Schäfer FDGB
Willi Schäfer DBD
Peter Schejok FDJ Resignation of mandate on May 12, 1969
Horst Schewe SED
Waldemar Schilling FDGB
Gregor Schirmer KB
Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher DFD
Liselotte Schlecht SED Berlin representative
Otto Schlegelmilch FDGB
Frank Schliephake FDGB
Paula Schlitter DFD
Ursula Schlosser DFD
Elfriede Schmidt DFD
Waldemar Schmidt SED Berlin representative
Maria Schneider FDGB
Bernhard Schnieber CDU
Karl-Heinz Schniebs DBD Berlin representative
Gerty Scholer FDJ
Otto Schön SED deceased on September 15, 1968
Edith Schoenfelder FDJ
Georg Scholz LDPD
Paul Scholz DBD
Erhard Schrader DBD
Max Schreiber FDGB
Bernd Schröder FDJ
Ingeborg Schubert DFD
Manfred Schubert SED
Gerhard Schürer SED
Hans Schuldt CDU
Karl-Heinz Schulmeister KB
Margarete Schulz SED Berlin representative
Rudolph Schulze CDU
Horst Schumann SED
Gustav-Adolf Schur FDJ
Erika Schweder NDPD
Max Sefrin CDU
Hans Seigewasser SED
Anneliese Seume NDPD
Max Seydewitz SED
Rolf Sieber FDGB
Heinz Siebert DBD
Gustav Siemon NDPD
Rosemarie Sievert LDPD
Hans-Heinrich Simon NDPD
Horst Sindermann SED
Erna Sirch LDPD
Heinz Sock LDPD
Winfried Sonntag SED
Klaus Sorgenicht SED
Osmar Spitzner SED deceased on November 24, 1969
Gerd Staegemann NDPD
Luitpold Steidle CDU
Manfred Steiner DBD
Ursula Steinert CDU
Werner Steuwer LDPD
Albert Stief SED
Willi Stoph SED
Paul Strauß SED
Hans Stubbe KB
Klaus-Dietrich Sturm SED on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Moved up happily
Max Suhrbier LDPD deceased on January 16, 1971
Siegfried Tannhäuser SED
Hannelore Templiner FDGB Berlin representative
Bruno Thalmann LDPD Berlin representative
Ilse Thiele DFD
Kurt Thieme SED Berlin representative
Liselotte Thoms-Heinrich DFD Berlin representative
Annelie Thorndike KB
Walter Thürmer LDPD died on February 24, 1971
Hans-Manfred Thurm CDU
Harry Tisch SED
Werner Titel DBD
Heinrich Toeplitz CDU
Gottfried Torbicki NDPD
Herbert Trebs CDU
Harry Trumpold LDPD
Fritz Tschetschorke DBD
Erich Uhlich SED MP until 1968
Walter Ulbricht SED
Paul Ullmann CDU
Hans Ulrich NDPD
Johannes Unger FDGB
Rolf Unger LDPD
Paul Verner SED
Ursula Völkner DFD
Anni Vogt CDU
Roland Voigtlander DBD
Gerhard Wagner LDPD
Herbert Walkowski NDPD on September 24, 1969, for Rep. Rühle moved up
Rosel Walther NDPD
Herbert Warnke SED
Irma Wattenbach DFD
Hans Watzek DBD
Christine Wedegärtner FDJ
Margit Wegener NDPD
Wolfgang Weichelt SED
Johannes Weidauer NDPD
Ingrid Weigelt DFD
Susanne Weigert FDJ
Marta Weigt DFD
Gerhard Weiss SED
Herbert Weiz SED
Regina Wenck SED Berlin representative
Ruth Wendt SED
Josef Wenig FDGB
Margaret Werner SED Berlin representative
Monika Werner SED
Rudi Werner DBD
Harald Werthmann LDPD Berlin representative
Günter Wiedemann LDPD
Hans Wiesner SED
Lothar Wilczek CDU
Karin-Christiane Wilhelm CDU
Richard O. Wilhelm LDPD
Lisbeth Windisch DFD
Otto Winzer SED
Irmgard Wisor FDJ
Lothar Witt FDJ Berlin representative
Karl-Heinz Wittig NDPD
Werner Wittig SED
Günter Wolf FDGB
Werner Wollschläger FDJ Berlin representative
Werner Wolter DBD
Kurt Wünsche LDPD
Werner Wünschmann CDU
Marianne Wunderlich FDGB
Günter Wutzler KB
Stephan Zagrodnik DBD
Gisela Zepp DFD
Herbert Ziegenhahn SED
Erwin Ziesmann DBD
Ute Zipfel NDPD
Friedrich Zirpel LDPD
Johann Zuber FDGB
Hermann Zweigler LDPD

Literature

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  • Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (Ed.) Die Volkskammer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik: 5. Wahlperiode. Berlin, Staatsverlag der DDR, 1967.
  • Günther Buch: Namen und Daten wichtiger Personen der DDR. 3rd revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West)/Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7.

Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Liste der Mitglieder der Volkskammer der DDR (5. Wahlperiode); see its history for attriSEDion.

References

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  1. ^ Archived (Date missing) at wahlen-98.de (Error: unknown archive URL)
  2. ^ See Herbst, Andreas / Ranke, Winfried / Winkler, Jürgen: So funktionierte die DDR. Band 2: Lexikon der Organisationen und Institutionen M-Z. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994
  3. ^ if known