The approximately 40 departments of the Central Committee of the SED were the center of the policymaking of East Germany. The departments were assigned...
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Bruno Lietz (category Candidate members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
agriculture policymaker in the 1980s, briefly serving as head of the powerful Agriculture Department of the SED Central Committee and later Agriculture Minister...
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Theoretically, the highest body of the SED was the Party Congress, convened every fifth year. When the Party Congress was not in session, the Central Committee was...
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approval by the Friendly Parties Department of the SED Central Committee. The parties were afforded a large amount of infrastructure, including party buildings...
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At the same time, others are unique, such as the Department of Western Affairs of the SED Central Committee. These organs are supervised by the secretariat...
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Helmut Semmelmann (category Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
the SED Central Committee. During the Wende, he also briefly served in the Central Committee Secretariat as Secretary responsible for Agriculture. The son...
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Herbert Häber (category Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
the West Department at the Central Committee of the SED. In this role, he held contacts with many West German politicians. Häber supported SED leader Erich...
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Heinz Geggel (category Candidate members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
served as the longtime head of the powerful Agitation Department at the Central Committee of the SED and de facto commanded East German press. Born to a...
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The List of members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) gives an overview of the secretaries and...
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The Marx-Engels-Lenin-Institut was a department of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), directly subordinate to the secretary...
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it ranks higher in the party hierarchy than departments such as the Organization or United Front Departments. In 1937 the CCP Central Revolutionary Military...
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Central Committee (Zentralkomitee) of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and especially the Politbüro of the SED Central Committee. The Präsidium...
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government. Thus, the head of the SED's Politburo of the Central Committee was the de facto leader of the country. The political leadership of East Germany...
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Günter Sieber (category Candidate members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
as the longtime head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the SED. During the Wende, he also briefly served in the Politburo...
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Edwin Schwertner (category Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze)
was the SED party secretary in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. In 1960, Schwertner joined the apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED. He initially...
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The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the human resource management department of the Central Committee...
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International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the SED v t e...
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Gunter Rettner (category Candidate members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
as head of the powerful Department for International Politics and Economics (previously known as West Department) of the SED Central Committee. In this...
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Werner Felfe (category Candidate members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In the 1980s, he was the powerful SED Agriculture Secretary, instituting various reforms to the...
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Käte Selbmann (category Candidate members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
and absolutely subordinate to the SED". Selbmann was named the head of the women's department of the SED central committee in 1949, succeeding Maria Weiterer...
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Gerhard Grüneberg (category Candidate members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
(Oder) and was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. From the 1960s to the early 1980s, he was the powerful SED Agriculture Secretary...
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Joachim Herrmann (politician, born 1928) (category Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians)
for the SED Zentralorgan Neues Deutschland. From the late 1970s, he was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and the powerful...
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Werner Eberlein (category Candidate members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
of the SED in Bezirk Magdeburg and as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the 80s. His father, Hugo Eberlein, was one of...
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Konrad Naumann (category Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
important nationally as a member of the Central Committee of the country's ruling SED (party). At times, Naumann was the unofficial number two to General...
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Bruno Leuschner (category Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
department of the KPD, of which he was then head. As head of the Economic and Finance Department of the SED Central Committee, he played a major role in the creation...
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Heinz Kuhrig (category Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
joined the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) during his studies in 1946, thereafter worked in the Agriculture Department of the SED Central Committee. In...
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Hans-Joachim Hoffmann (category Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
serving as head of the SED Central Committee Culture Department and later minister of culture before having to step down during the Peaceful Revolution...
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Commission (minister-level) State and Legal Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the SED Guo, Xuezhi (2012-08-29). China's Security State: Philosophy...
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Johannes Hörnig (category Candidate members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
for the Central Committee of the ruling SED (party) as a section leader. In 1955 he was promoted to the position of Department head for the Central Committee's...
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Eberhard Aurich (category Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
Erich Postler joined the Bezirk Schwerin SED as Second Secretary. Aurich was elected as a full member of the Central Committee of the SED in April 1981 (X...
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