The motive for setting the date of 3 October as the possible Day of Unity was decided by the Volkskammer ( GDR Congress ) on the impending economical and political collapse of the GDR.

The decision on the date was finally made on 22 August by the GDR's Minister-President, de Maiziere, at a special session of the Volkskammer, which began at 9 pm.

After a heated debate, the President of the Volkskammer, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, announced the results at 2: 30 am on 23 August:

When the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, which was freely elected on March 18, 1990 for the first time, is disbanded in the process of the German reunification, another 7 seats are added as 7 members of the 21-member Volkskammer faction of the Green Party, elected by their peers, enter the Bundestag.

The parliament of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ), the Volkskammer, enacted on 13 February 1960 the " Law on the Formation of the National Defense Council of the GDR ", which established a council consisting of a chairman and at least 12 members.

In December, the East German Volkskammer eliminated the SED monopoly on power, and the entire Politbüro and Central Committee — including Krenz — resigned.

The freely elected representatives of the Volkskammer held their first session on 5 April, and East Germany peacefully evolved from a communist to a democratically elected government.

From its founding in 1949 until the first free elections on 18 March 1990, all members of the Volkskammer were elected on a slate controlled by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ), called the National Front.

All parties were expected to respect democratic centralism, and the most dissent in voting ever shown by the Volkskammer to the SED were fourteen nays and eight abstentions on the part of CDU representatives in a vote on liberalising abortion laws.

Gysi served as its chairman starting in 1990, and in March 1990 was elected to the Volkskammer in the first free election of that body, serving there until it was dissolved upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.

Article 51 stated that the members of the Volkskammer were to be elected in universal, equal, and secret elections based on the relative majority principle.

As a result, the 1968 constitution was amended by the Volkskammer on 27 September 1974 to delete the reference to the German nation and to further increase the emphasis on solidarity and friendship with the Soviet Union.

The NDPD was recognized by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany on 16 August 1948 and later sent 52 delegates to the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, as part of the National Front.

On 23 August 1990, the Volkskammer ratified the treaty on German reunification, which was later then also confirmed by the Bundestag in Bonn.

Just prior to German reunification in October 1990, the structure was found to be contaminated with asbestos, and was closed to the public on 19 September 1990, by decree of the Volkskammer.

Regular annual parties in this building were also the " Sportlerball " and the " Ball der Jugend ". During the night of 22 – 23 August 1990, the Volkskammer decided in the Palace of the Republic the declaration on the accession of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) to the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG ) with effect from 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the GDR joined the FRG.

Its deputies, like all other parties, consistently voted for the government proposals in the Volkskammer, The only exception was the March 9, 1972 vote on the abortion law, when there were 14 ' nays ' and 8 absentees among the CDU deputies.

Götting, himself a Volkskammer chairman in the 1970s, carried on and elaborated the pro-government line.

On 1 December 1989, the GDR parliament ( Volkskammer ) rescinded the clause in the GDR Constitution giving the SED the leading role in the country's politics.

In theory, the Volkskammer was the highest organ of state power in the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ).

In April 1990, the democratic forum Runder Tisch ( Round Table ) developed a proposal for a new GDR constitution to reflect the democratic changes that swept across the GDR following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, however, by that time, the newly freely-elected Volkskammer ( parliament ) was moving in the direction of outright unification with the Federal Republic, and so the draft constitution went nowhere.

A few weeks later, the first freely elected parliament of the GDR, the Volkskammer, passed a resolution which recognized the GDR's responsibility for the Holocaust and asked " Jews around the world for forgiveness ".

Following the establishment of the GDR in 1949, Stoph became a member of the central committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) and member of the Volkskammer in 1950.

The emblem was officially abolished on 31 May 1990, by a decision of the GDR Parliament ( Volkskammer ).

He also acted as the president ( chairman ) of provisional People ’ s Chamber and People ’ s Chamber ( Volkskammer ), the parliament of the GDR, a place which he held until his death.

In 1954, Wollweber became a delegate to the Volkskammer and a member of the SED ’ s Central Committee, but in 1956 his influence began to wane when he clashed with Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker on issues ranging from East Germany ’ s policies towards Poland to the estimate of the number of anti-Communist groups within the GDR.

He became a delegate of the Cultural Union in the GDR Parliament ( Volkskammer ) in 1950.

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.

After the establishment of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) on 7 October 1949, he became a member of the Volkskammer.

After World War II, the building fell into disuse ; the parliament ( Volkskammer ) of the German Democratic Republic met in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin, while the parliament ( Bundestag ) of the Federal Republic of Germany met in the Bundeshaus in Bonn.

The People's Chamber ( German: Volkskammer ) was the unicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ).

• 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

She was Deputy Chairman of the PDS 1993-2000 and sat in the Volkskammer of the German Democratic Republic before reunification and the Bundestag thereafter.

In the German Democratic Republic, elections to the Volkskammer were effectively controlled by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and state hierarchy, even though multiple parties existed pro forma.

Modrow had a long political career in East Germany, including periods as a member of the Volkskammer.

In March, 1990, in the only free election held in East Germany, Lothar de Maizière was elected to the Volkskammer as a member of the East German Christian Democratic Union.

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 ").

Democratic Awakening now supported rapid German reunification and formed part of the Alliance for Germany ( Allianz für Deutschland ) with CDU and DSU for the 1990 Volkskammer elections on March 18.

Although Alliance for Germany won the elections, Alliance member Democratic Awakening only collected 0. 9 % of votes, amounting to four seats in Volkskammer.

It was invited to join the Christian Democrat dominated Alliance for Germany coalition for the 1990 Volkskammer election but instead it joined the Association of Free Democrats in 12 February 1990.

East Germany reserved seats in the Volkskammer for representatives of women, trade unions and youth organisations.

Democratic Women's Federation of Germany ( German: Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands / DFD ) was a mass organisation with representation in the Volkskammer which primarily fought for women's issues in East Germany.

* The Volkskammer voted to legalize abortion in East Germany, although 14 legislators voted against the bill and another 8 abstained, a rarity in a Communist state.

In an attempt to include women in the political life in East Germany, there was even a Democratic Women's Federation of Germany with seats in the Volkskammer.