Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Chamber of People's Representatives

Category: Members of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

He was also a member of the People's Chamber ( the GDR's legislature ) from 1971 to 1990, and a member of its presidium from 1971 to 1981.

Despite many protests, Krenz was elected by the People's Chamber to Honecker's other posts as Chairman of the Council of State ( a post equivalent to that of president ) and Chairman of the National Defence Council.

Egon Krenz addressing the People's Chamber | Volkskammer.

The People's Chamber ( Volkskammer )— the lower house of the East German parliament — and an upper house — the States Chamber ( Länderkammer )— were created.

In practice, like most other legislatures in Communist countries, the People's Chamber did little more than rubber-stamp decisions already made by the SED.

During People's Chamber elections, voters were presented with a single list from the National Front, with seats allocated based on a set quota rather than actual vote totals.

The FDJ was intended to be the " reliable assistant and fighting reserve of the Worker's Party ", or Socialist Unity Party of Germany, was a member of the National Front and had representatives in the People's Chamber.

Category: Members of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

As in other parliamentary-democratic systems, provision was also made for two legislative assemblies, the States Chamber ( Länderkammer ) and the People's Chamber ( Volkskammer ), and the election of a prime minister ( Ministerpräsident ) by the party with the largest mandate in the People's Chamber.

A series of amendments known as the Law Toward the Completion of the Constitution were passed by the People's Chamber in March 1954, when the country was formally granted sovereignty by the Soviet Union.

Category: Members of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

Category: Members of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

The Palace of the Republic () in Berlin was the seat of the parliament of the German Democratic Republic, the People's Chamber, and also served various cultural purposes.

It won the first ( and as it turned out, only ) free general elections and became the biggest party in the People's Chamber.

Category: Members of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

Category: Members of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

" storm of the people " or " Folk-Storm "; " People's Army " or " National Militia ") was a German national militia of the last months of World War II.

In fact, the three Western commandants regularly protested the presence of the East German National People's Army ( NVA ) in East Berlin, particularly on the occasion of military parades.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

KdF was also responsible for the creation of the original Volkswagen (" People's Car "), a state-manufactured automobile that was meant to be cheap enough to allow all German citizens to be able to own one.

* National People's Army ( 1956 – 1990 ), armed forces of the former German Democratic Republic

Together with the German National People's Party ( DNVP ), however, he was able to form a slim majority government.

Category: German People's Party politicians

German actions like Kulturkampf, the program of Germanization started to unite and mobilize Polish people in Polish inhabited territories held by Germany including Masuria A Polish-oriented party, the Mazurska Partia Ludowa (" Mazur People's Party "), was founded in 1897.

In the 1920s Masuria remained a heartland of Conservatism with the German National People's Party as strongest party.

Nazi control of the German film industry is the most extreme example of the use of film in the service of a fascist national program and, in 1933, Hitler created the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda and appointed the youthful Joseph Goebbels as its head.

In addition to annexing several occupied countries as ( or into ) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries were converted into Soviet Satellite states within the Eastern Bloc, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.

* Demilitarization of the former Wehrmacht forces and the German arms industry, however, the circumstances of the Cold War soon led to Germany's Wiederbewaffnung including the re-establishment of both the Bundeswehr and the National People's Army resp.

Impressed by the German campaign of 1940 against France, the Soviet People's Commissariat of Defence ( Defence Ministry, Russian abbreviation NKO ) ordered the creation of nine mechanized corps on 6 July 1940.

Rolf Nevanlinna did not participate actively in politics, but in the thirties he was known to sympathise with the right-wing Patriotic People's Movement party and, partly because of his half German ancestry,

The industry grew during German rule and peaked in the 1970s under the People's Republic of Poland.

Frustrated with continued German demands for cessions of territory, Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ( more or less Foreign Minister ), and head of the Russian delegation, on February 10, 1918, announced Russia's withdrawal from the negotiations and unilateral declaration of the ending of hostilities, a position summed up as " no war — no peace ".

Volksmarine ( People's Navy ) was the official designation of the maritime forces of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ).

• Heinz Kessler ( 1920 ), general in the National People's Army, Minister of Defense in the Ministerrat, and representative in the Volkskammer of the German Democratic Republic

The NF was controlled by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and was formed to stand in elections to the East German parliament, the Volkskammer (" People's Chamber ").

In 1949, Götting became General Secretary of the CDU and, after the establishment in the Soviet Zone of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ), began his career as a member of the People's Chamber ( Volkskammer ), the East German legislative body, in which he served for the next forty years.

From 1958 to 1963 he was Vice-President of the Volkskammer and from 1963 to his death he served as member of the Presidium of the Volkskammer ( People's Chamber ).

Honecker attending the People's Chamber | Volkskammer in 1951.

The results claimed a two-thirds majority for the official delegates, two-thirds of which were controlled by the SED In the course of 1949 the newly elected People's Congress created the German People's Council and a Provisional People's Chamber ( Volkskammer ), both with a SED majority.