In early February 1919, elections were held for a state assembly, the Volkskammer, in which the moderates gained control. An outbreak of violence at the...

serving until its collective resignation in December 1989, and of the Volkskammer in December, nominally representing a constituency in the southwest of...

Council of Ministers in 1973, but in 1976 he became President of the Volkskammer, the only member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany to hold the...

serving until its collective resignation in December 1989, and of the Volkskammer in November, nominally representing a constituency in the Ore Mountains...

German journalist and politician who served as the 1st President of the Volkskammer, the parliament of East Germany, from 1949 to 1969. Dieckmann was born...

from 1961, succeeding the deceased Hans Loch, to 1990 a member of the Volkskammer, nominally representing a constituency in southern Bezirk Potsdam. Heusinger...

parliament and held a seat in the Volkskammer, which first convened in 1950. Buchwitz was the oldest member of the Volkskammer since 1950. On 29 November 1948...

its resignation in December 1989. He additionally became member of the Volkskammer in 1963 and the State Council, the GDR's collective head of state, in...

of the DDR. During the period 1963 to 1989, he was a delegate to the "Volkskammer" of the DDR, as well as a member of the "Kulturbund-Fraktion". After...

highest leadership body in East Germany. Fröhlich additionally joined the Volkskammer in 1954. Until 1958, he was a member of the Committee for Clemency, where...

1948 and later sent 52 delegates to the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, as part of the National Front. None of these ever voted against the...

parties did have representation in the Volkskammer and received some posts in the government. The Volkskammer also included representatives from the mass...

the district of Karl-Marx-Stadt. In March 1990 he was elected into the Volkskammer with Bündnis 90, but immediately handed the mandate to Werner Schulz...

which a few months after she joined it became the People's Chamber (Volkskammer / National Legislative Assembly). The legislature was controlled by the...

of MPs as part of the reunification process and he was one of the 144 Volkskammer co-opted to the Bundestag. He stepped down following his appointment...

performance also raised the nation's self-confidence, which led the Volkskammer in 1974 to delete the terms German nation and reunification from the...

Werner Schmieder (born 11 November 1926) is a former politician who served as the minister of finance in East Germany in the period 1980–1981. Schmieder...

Republic and a member of the country's National Legislative Assembly (Volkskammer). In 1995, following reunification, Dohlus was one of those who stood...

district council for Bautzen district. In 1990, she was elected to the Volkskammer. She was subsequently elected to the Bundestag later that year. After...

secondary in status and function to the more prominent People's Chamber (Volkskammer): the Länderkammer had already been largely sidelined some years before...

organization of the National Front, and a number of Sorbs were members of the Volkskammer and State Council of East Germany. Notable Sorbian figures of the period...

state election was held on 2 February 1919 to elect 97 members of the Volkskammer (People's Chamber). The 1920 Saxony state election was held on 14 November...

Wolfgang Ullmann (18 August 1929 – 30 July 2004) was a German journalist, theologian, politician. Wolfgang Ullmann was born in Bad Gottleuba near Dresden...

movements, each having a fixed quota of seats in the National Assembly (Volkskammer), and controlled through the National Front by the country's ruling SED...

Soviet Union had a fixed quota of seats in the East German parliament ("Volkskammer") in what by this time was becoming a new kind of German one-party dictatorship...

articles by the author are listed in the appendix of the book Nachklang. Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, SLUB has...

Later that year the People's Council became the People's Parliament ("Volkskammer"). Fritz Selbmann served as an SED member of this legislative body between...

especially western commentators – to dismiss the East German parliament (Volkskammer) as a mere "rubber stamp parliament", but by November it had become clear...

group at the Round Table. He was elected to the first freely elected Volkskammer. After German reunification, he was a member of the German Bundestag...

from 1950 or earlier. The national legislature, the People's Chamber ("Volkskammer") was not at the centre of power in the way that a national parliament...