Karl Mewis was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism, diplomat, politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Mewis in 1960
Mewis speaking before the Volkskammer in March 1962
Mewis' grave in 2009
State Planning Commission (GDR)
The State Planning Commission (SPC) (German: Staatliche Plankommission) was a central state authority of the GDR Council of Ministers for planning, coordinating and proportional development of all sectors of the economy, public education and other areas of public life in the districts and for solving the most important economic tasks. In the central administrative economy of the GDR, it was responsible for the coordination, elaboration and control of the medium-term perspective plans (five-year plan) and the annual economic plans derived from them.
SPC office in Berlin
Seven year plan infographics by SPC
Official blank by SPC
Image: Fotothek df roe neg 0002951 003 Portrait Heinrich Raus am Rednerpult bei der Eröffnung der Herbstmesse 1950