LISTS MEMBERS OF NEW GERMAN NATIONAL COUNCIL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600300604-7
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 604
• Publication Date: April 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The German National Council (Deutscher Nationalrat) for the unification
of Germany, founded in Berlin, 3 February 1950, under the chairmanship of
Prof Ernst Niekisch, is composed of the following members:
Executive Council
Otto Grotewohl, Minister-President, Berlin (SED); Walter Ulbrecht, Deputy
Minister-President, Berlin (SED); Franz Dahlem, member, SED party executive,
delegate, Berlin (SED); Wilhelm Koenen, chairman, National Front secretariat,
Berlin (SED); Paul Merker, State Secretary, Berlin (SED); Prof Dr Hermann Kast-
ner, Deputy Minister-President, Berlin (LDP); Wilhelmine Schirmer-Proescher,
municipal counsel, delegate, Berlin (L)P); Dr Karl Hamann, Minister, Berlin
(LDP); Otto Nuschke, Deputy Minister-President, Berlin (CDU); Georg Dertinger,
Minister, Berlin (CDU); Dr Magdalene Stark-Wintersig, municipal counsel, dele-
gate, Berlin (CDU); Dr Lothar Bolz, Minister, Berlin (NDPD).
Also Vincent Mueller, deputy chairman, NDPD, Berlin (NDPD); Heinrich
Hohmann, political administrator, Berlin (NDPD); Ernst Goldenbaum, Minister,
Berlin (NDPD); Paul Scholz, deputy chairman, DBD, Berlin (DBD); Herbert Warnke,
first chairman, executive of the Free German Trade Union League (FDGB) (DDR),
"delegate, Berlin (FDGB); Friedel Malter, member, presidium of the provisional
People's Chamber, Berlin (FDGB); Erich Honecker, first chairman, central counsel,
FDJ, delegate, Berlin (FDJ); Irmgard Spil:ner, central executive, FDJ, Berlin,
(FDJ); Elli Schmidt, chairman, DFD, Berlin (DFD); Dr Charlotte Geissler, Berlin,
(DFD); Kurt Vieweg, secretary general, VdgB, Berlin (VdgB).
Also Herbert Friedel, skiing teacher in Sachsen, Aschbach-Muehlleiten
(Sport); Fritz Goedeke, Leipzig (Sport); Johannes R. Becher, president, Cultural
league, delegate, Berlin (KB); Prof Dr Johannes Stroux, president, Academy of
Sciences, Berlin (no party affiliation); Prof Ernst Niekisch, delegate, Berlin
(Pere;; Prof Dr H. Sedlaczek, director, Maxhuette Unterwellenborn, Saalfeld-
Bergfried (Pere); Prof Hating (fnu), Zeiss plant, Jena (Pers); Prof Hermann
Abendroth, director general of music, Weimar (Pers).
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Friedrich iedrich Ebert, d anb Humboldts University, delegate, Berlin Berlin (no party
affiliation); Willi Raukopf, guild chief, master smith, Berlin (no party
affilintin,); Prof Thmcdcr Dr
ugach,:hairman, National Front Committee, Berlin
(no party affiliation); Arno bon Leneky, land chairman, NDPD, Berlin (NDPD);
Hans Jendretzky, land chairman, SED, Berlin (SED).
Thueringen
Katharine Walther, land chairman, DBD, Weimar (DBD); Max Schmidt, land
secretary, CDU, Weimar (CDU); Curt Creutzburg, pastor, Meiningen (no party
affiliation); Erich Mueckenberger, land chairman, SED, Weimar (SED); Dr Hans
Loch, Minister of Finance, Weimar (LDP); Dr Walter Koenig, land chairman,
NDPD, Weimar (NDPD)? Kurt Werne_, new peasant, activist, Henningsleben, Lan-
gensalza district (DBD).
Brandenburg
Frieda Radel, writer, delegate, Potsdam (LDp); Adolf Kupke, second land
chairman, Vdgg, Doebern, Spremberg district (VdgB); Dr Kories(fnu), first chair-
man, Brandenburg National Front Committee, Potsdam (NDPD); Willi Saegebrecht,
land chairman, SED, Potsdam (SED).
Mecklenburg
Paul Richter, merchant, manufacturer, Schwerin (LDP); Fritz Dabels,
peasant, resettler, teacher, Waren (DBD); Kurt Buerger, land chairman, SED,
Schwerin (SED); Dr Reinhold Lobedanz, president, provisional Land Chamber,
Schwerin (CDU); Ernst Walter Beer, land chairman, DBD, Schwerin (DBD).
Sachsen-Anhalt
Luise Ermiscb, activist in the Halle garment factory, resettler, dress-
maker, Halle (FDGB); Bernhard Koenen, land chairman, SED, Halle (SED); Ilisch
(fnu), forwarding agent, land committee of the National Front, Halle, (no party
affiliation); Otto Kamps, Minister, delegate, municipal counsel, Halle (LDP);
Dr Moritz (fnu), associate, scientific laboratory, Nonferrous Metal Plant,
Hettstedt (CDU); Dr Otto Ruehle, Minister, Halle (NDPD); Gerald Goetting, secre-
tary-general, CDU, Halle (CDU).
Willi Konzok, municipal counsel, Dresden (LDP); Magnus Dedek, deputy Lan-
drat, Aue district, Aue (CDU); Dr Karl August Busch, pastor, Martin Luther
Church, Dresden (LDP); Ruth Kuechler, activist, brigade leader, Glauchau (FDJ);
Ernst Lohagen, land chairman, SED, Dresden (SED).
Explanation of Abbreviations
SED - Sozialistische Einheitspartei (Socialist Unity Party)
LDP - Liberal-Demokratische Pareti (Liberal Democratic Party)
CDU - Christlich-Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union)
NDPD- National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands (Nationalist Democratic
Party of Germany)
DBD - Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands (Germany's Democratic
Peasants' Party)
FDGB- Frdier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Free German Trade Union League)
DDR - Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
FDJ - Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth)
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DFD - Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands (German Democratic Women's
League)
VdgB- Vereinigung der gegenseitigen Bauernhilfe (Peasants' Mutual Aid
Association)
KB - Kulturbund (Cultural League)
Pers- Persoenlich.(Personal, i.e., not representing a group)
fnu - first name unlmovn
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