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
Council of Ministers of East Germany
The Council of Ministers was the cabinet and executive branch of the German Democratic Republic from November 1950 until the country was reunified on 3 October 1990. Originally formed as a body of 18 members, by 1989 the council consisted of 44 members.
Group photo of Council of Ministers in 1981
The Altes Stadthaus in Berlin, seat of the Ministerrat der DDR from 1961 until 1990
Image: Otto Grotewohl Anefo
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R0430 0305A, Willi Stoph
