State elections were held in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on 20 October 1946 to elect the state legislatures of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. They
Fotothek df pk 0000172 020 Porträt, Ernst Crop
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild P001516, Jakob Kaiser
Fotothek df pk 0000190 018 Porträt des Vorsitzenden der LDP Dr. Wilhelm Külz
SED Electoral advertisement in East Berlin.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany was a political party in East Germany. Like the other allied bloc parties of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the National Front, it had 52 representativ
1946 Soviet occupation zone state elections
…zone, as a first step for future political reforms. In addition to the SED, three other parties participated; the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Peasants Mutual Aid Association (VdgB). Two other organizations participated but only in Saxony. The SED landslide victory was seen by…
Wilhelm Külz (left) in December 1947 with Wilhelm Pieck (SED) and Otto Nuschke (CDU) at the "People's Congress"
Party convention in 1987, with singer Dagmar Frederic and professor Zippel of Charité