List of Volkskammer members (5th election period)

This list provides an overview of all members of the People's Chamber of the GDR in the 5th legislative period (1967–1971).

Composition

In the 1967 East German general election, according to official information, 99.93% of the voters voted for the proposal of the National Front.

Faction	Seats of GDR deputies	Seats of Berlin representatives	Total seats	by party affiliation
SED	110	17	127	275
DBD	45	7	52	52
CDU	45	7	52	54
LDPD	45	7	52	53
NDPD	45	7	52	53
FDGB	60	8	68	-
DFD	30	5	35	-
FDJ	35	5	40	-
Kulturbund	15	3	22	-
Independent				13
Total	434	66	500	500

The election did not influence the strength of the factions. Their size was predetermined.

Presidium

• President of the People's Chamber

Johannes Dieckmann (LDPD) Deceased in 1969

Gerald Götting (CDU)

• Deputy President of the People's Chamber

Hermann Matern (SED) Passed away on January 24, 1971

Friedrich Ebert (SED)

• Members of the Presidium:

Hermann Kalb (CDU) Until 1969

Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (DFD)

Otto Gotsche (SED)

Ernst Goldenbaum (DBD)

Grete Groh-Kummerlöw (FDGB)

Margarete Müller (SED)

Wolfgang Rösser (NDPD)

Willi-Peter Konzok (LDPD) From 1969

Karl-Heinz Schulmeister (Kulturbund) From May 1969

Werner Engst (FDJ) From May 1969

Source:

Faction Leaders

• Faction of the SED

Hermann Matern Passed away on January 24, 1971

Friedrich Ebert

• Faction of the DBD

Leonhard Helmschrott

• Faction of the CDU

Wolfgang Heyl

• Faction of the LDPD

Rudolf Agsten

• Faction of the NDPD

Wolfgang Rösser

• Faction of the FDGB

Hans Jendretzky

• Faction of the DFD

Katharina Kern

• Faction of the FDJ

Johannes Rech

• Faction of the Kulturbund

Karl-Heinz Schulmeister

Members of the Volkskammer

Name	Faction	Remarks
Alexander Abusch	KB
Rudolf Agsten	LDPD
Eberhard Alff	SED
Kurt Anclam	LDPD
Manfred von Ardenne	KB
Reiner Arlt	SED
Margarete Arnhold	LDPD
Klaus-Rüdiger Arnold	FDGB
Traute Arnold	CDU
Hermann Axen	SED
Annemarie Balke	FDGB
Julius Balkow	SED
Dieter Bartelt	SED
Katarina Bartko	LDPD
Edith Baumann	SED	Berlin representative
Helga Baumgärtel	CDU
Lilli Becker	LDPD
Wilhelm Behnke	SED
Monika Berek	CDU	Berlin representative
Rolf Berger	FDGB
Peter Bergner	FDJ
Helmut Bernhöft	FDGB
Dietrich Besler	SED	Berlin representative
Helmut Birckner	FDGB
Siegfried Birnstengel	DBD
Günter Bleisch	FDGB	Berlin representative
Bernhard Bode	FDJ
Siegfried Böhm	SED
Ute Börner	DBD
Marta-Maria Böttcher	NDPD
Walter Boltz	DBD	Berlin representative
Lothar Bolz	NDPD
Friderun Bondzin	KB
Bernhard Bott	DBD
Alois groom	SED
Hans Brachmann	FDJ
Horst Brasch	SED
Hella Brock	KB
Gerhard Broll	SED
Christoph Brückner	LDPD
Hermann Budzislawski	FDGB
Angelika Bullert	FDJ
Kurt Burkhardt	DBD
Johannes Chemnitzer	SED
Gerhard Clausner	SED	on May 14, 1970, for Rep. Spitzner moved up
Manfred Clauss	SED	on December 13, 1968, for Rep. Nice move up
Friedrich Clermont	SED
Erich Correns	KB
Ursula Czeczot	CDU
Franz Dahlem	SED
Siegfried Dallmann	NDPD
Hans Deckert	NDPD
Peter Deistler	FDJ
Gerd Delenschke	NDPD	Berlin representative
Friedrich Dickel	SED
Johannes Dieckmann	LDPD	died on February 22, 1969
Käte Dienstbach	FDJ	Berlin representative
Herta Dippe	FDGB
Regina Dittmar	DFD
Horst Döll	NDPD
Ursula Dörner	DFD
Marianne Dorn	NDPD
Konrad Dorow	FDGB	Berlin representative
Heinz Dreblow	SED
Lothar Dreher	CDU	Berlin representative
Sigrid Dünnhaupt	DBD
Rosemarie Dürrschlag	FDJ
Paul Eberle	LDPD	Berlin representative
Friedrich Ebert	SED
Harry Eckardt	FDGB
Ernst Eichhorn	SED
Klaus Elsner	DBD	Berlin representative
Gottfried Engelmann	LDPD	on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Thürmer moved up
Werner Engst	FDJ
Albert Enke	FDGB
Elisabeth Erdmann	NDPD
Luise Ermisch	SED
Georg Ewald	SED
Manfred Ewald	SED
Heinz Fahrenkrog	FDGB
Herbert Fechner	SED	Berlin representative
Werner Feist	LDPD
Kurt Fenske	SED
Otto Fiedler	DBD
Horst Fischer	NDPD
Manfred Flegel	NDPD
Rosemarie Flesch	CDU
Peter Florin	SED
Friedhelm Foerster	NDPD	Berlin representative on August 13, 1968, for the deputy Löhr moved up
Erich Franz	NDPD
Anna-Maria Freyer	DFD
Paul Fröhlich	SED	deceased on September 19, 1970
Gisela Fuchs	DFD
Hans-Peter Fürch	FDJ
Otto Funke	SED
Heinrich Gäbe	SED
Ernst Gallerach	SED
Heinz Genus	FDGB
Paul Geisler	FDGB	deceased on April 2, 1971
Peter Gerdum	FDJ
Manfred Gerlach	LDPD
Horst Gessner	LDPD
Joachim-Ernst Gierspeck	LDPD
Utta Gießner	FDJ
Olga Shine	LDPD
Renate Glitza	DFD
Rudi Luck	LDPD	Berlin representative
Horst Göring	DBD	Berlin representative
Willi Görß	FDGB
Gerald Götting	CDU
Ernst Goldenbaum	DBD
Otto Gotsche	SED
Erich Grabowski	DBD
Willi Grandetzka	DBD
Günther Grewe	CDU
Grete Groh-Kummerlöw	FDGB
Roberta Gropper	FDGB	Berlin representative
Manfred Grossman	FDGB
Gerhard Grüneberg	SED
Erich Grützner	SED
Marie Gunder	DBD
Wolfgang Guttke	FDGB
Klaus Gysi	KB
Hildegard Haase	DBD
Karin Haback	FDJ	Berlin representative
Susanne Häber	DBD
Heinz Hahne	CDU
Kurt Hager	SED
Werner Hager	SED
Ruth Hahn	DFD
Walter Halbritter	SED
Willy Hallbauer	SED	on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Kiess moved up
Wolfram Haller	CDU
Irmgard Haltinner	SED	Berlin representative
Gero Hammer	NDPD	Berlin representative
Roland Hammermüller	DBD
Emmy Handke	DFD	Berlin representative
Brunhilde Hanke	SED
Siegfried Hanusch	FDGB
Werner Hartleib	FDGB
Gertrud Hartmann	DBD
Walter Hartung	NDPD
Herbert Hasenbein	FDGB
Edeltraud main	CDU
Kurt Haupt	CDU
Walter Hauschild	FDGB
Hildegard Heine	SED
Horst Heinrich	NDPD
Brunhilde Heinrichs	SED
Günther Heinze	FDGB
Leonhard Helmschrott	DBD
Waltraut Hennig	LDPD
Anneliese Hennlich	CDU
Hartmut Henschel	FDJ
Lieselott Herforth	FDGB
Herbert Hertzsch	FDGB
Fritz Herzberg	FDGB
Hans-Joachim Heusinger	LDPD
Wolfgang Heyl	CDU
Inge Hieblinger	DFD
Heino Hinze	KB
Werner Hölzel	LDPD
Friedrich Höpfner	LDPD
Elisabeth Höpner	FDGB
Anni Hoffmann	SED
Heinz Hoffmann	SED
Heinz-Rudolf Hoffmann	CDU	Berlin representative
Christa Hojer	CDU
Christine Holfeld	FDJ
Horst Holinski	FDGB
Witho Holland	LDPD	Berlin representative
Ilse wooden mug	CDU
Heinrich Homann	NDPD
Erich Honecker	SED
Margot Honecker	SED
Fritz Hopf	LDPD
Heinz Hoßfeld	FDGB
Claus Howitz	DBD
Claus-Jürgen Yikes	NDPD
Max Hübner	FDGB
Wilfried Ihle	FDGB
Helene Ilse	FDGB
Gisela Jänsch	SED
Günther Jahn	FDJ
Gudrun Jakob	FDJ
Werner Jarowinsky	SED
Christa Jauch	LDPD
Hans Jendretzky	FDGB
Hans-Rainer John	KB	Berlin representative
Hertha Jung	DFD
Karl Kaatz	LDPD
Erich Kärger	DBD
Susanne Kahlert	DFD
Siegfried Kaiser	FDGB	Berlin representative
Hermann Kalb	CDU
Werner Kalweit	SED
Susi Kammerath	SED	Berlin representative
Werner Karwath	CDU
Karl Kayser	KB
Ruth Kellermann	NDPD
Katharina Kern	DFD
Heinz Kessler	SED
Wulf-Peter Keuerleber	FDJ
Gustav Kiesewetter	LDPD
Bruno Kiesler	SED
Kurt Kieß	SED	deceased on December 30, 1970
Friedrich Kind	CDU
Franz Kirchner	CDU
Rudolf Kirchner	FDGB
Ruth Kirsch	SED
Hermann Kirschstein	FDGB
Helmtraut Klara	DFD	Berlin representative
Günther Nuthatch	SED
Gottfried Klepel	CDU
Heinz Kliemt	LDPD	on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Suhrbier moved up
Wilfried Klöser	FDGB
Claus-Dieter Knöfler	LDPD
Hans Koch	KB
Michael Köhler	FDJ
Erwin Körber	DBD	Berlin representative
Lothar Kolbe	CDU
Willi-Peter Konzok	LDPD
Edda Kramer	DFD
Erwin Kramer	SED
Klaus Kraßmann	NDPD
Martin Kraul	KB
Johanna Krause	DBD
Otto Krauss	LDPD	deceased on May 1, 1971
Rosemarie Krautzig	CDU	Berlin representative
Kurt Krenz	SED
Walter Cress	SED
Horst Kreter	NDPD	Berlin representative
Werner Krolikowski	SED
Bernhard Kromolski	FDGB	Berlin representative
Karsta Krüger	FDJ
Liesbeth Krüger	SED	Berlin representative
Franz Kühlmann	CDU
Gerhard Kühn	LDPD	Berlin representative
Rudolf Kühn	FDJ
Hermann Kühne	DBD
Joachim Kuehne	FDGB
Hanna Kuner	DFD	Berlin representative
Traude Kunz	SED
Gerhard Kupke	SED
Alfred Kurella	SED
Hannelore Kutschenreuter	FDJ
Inge Kutter	SED
Ursula Kutzner	CDU
Werner Lamberz	SED
Heinz Landgraf	DBD
Elfriede Lange	FDGB
Gerhard Lange	CDU
Ilse Lange	FDGB
Ingeburg Lange	SED
Wolfgang Lange	DBD
Marga Legal	DFD	Berlin representative
Hannelore Lehmann	SED
Harri Leupold	LDPD	Berlin representative
Walburga Liedler	DBD	Berlin representative
Gerhard Lindner	LDPD
Horst Linke	DBD
Ruth Lisofsky	FDGB
Johannes Wage	LDPD
Jonny Lohr	NDPD	Berlin representative died on July 15, 1967
Günter Loose	SED
Ilse Lorenz	DBD
Siegfried Lorenz	FDJ
Werner Lorenz	KB
Gerhard Lotz	CDU
Johanna Ludwig	NDPD
Heinz Lüder	NDPD
Wolfgang Lungershausen	SED
Hans Luthardt	NDPD
Paul Luzemann	FDGB
Günter Mähl	NDPD	Berlin representative
Boto Märtin	DBD
Hans-Jürgen Mannweiller	KB
Hermann Matern	SED	deceased on January 24, 1971
Alfred Mattheß	FDGB	Berlin representative
Heinz Matthes	SED
Günter Mauritz	SED
Heinrich Meier	NDPD
Hella Meier	FDJ
Renate Meißner	NDPD
Werner Mennicke	SED
Other Brand	DBD
Charlotte Mewes	DFD
Gerhard Rudolf Meyer	KB	Berlin representative
Erich Mielke	SED
Gudrun Miethig	CDU
Günter noon	SED
Lore Mix	DFD
Hans Modrow	SED	Berlin representative
Siegfried Mohr	SED	on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Matern moved up
Hans-Dietrich Möller	NDPD
Günter Morning	LDPD
Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt	DFD
Erich Mückenberger	SED
Emma Müller	FDGB
Gerhard Müller	NDPD
Inge Müller	DFD
Jochen Müller	FDJ	Berlin representative
Joachim Müller	FDGB
Heinz Müller	SED	Berlin representative
Herbert Müller	DBD
Margarete Müller	FDGB
Margarete Müller	SED
Walter Müller	SED
Gerhard Münch	NDPD
Harald Naumann	CDU
Konrad Naumann	SED	Berlin representative
Gudrun Nause	DFD
Wolfgang Neefe	NDPD
Heinz Neukrantz	FDGB
Alfred Neumann	SED
Anni Neumann	FDGB
Erika Neumann	FDGB
Gisela Neumann	DFD
Leane Neumann	FDJ
Adolf Niggemeier	CDU
Edeltraut Nitz	DBD
Albert Norden	SED
Rose Nyland Thistle	KB
Herbert Ott	LDPD
Friedrich Otto	NDPD
Martha Pässold	DBD
Walter Parey	FDGB	on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Geisler moved up
Heike Pemsel	CDU
Hans Günter Petzold	CDU	Berlin representative
Susanne Pfannenberg	CDU
Roland Pfeffer	NDPD
Ludwig Pfeiffer	NDPD
Paul Pflock	LDPD
Waltraud Piehl	DFD
Sieglinde Pietsch	DBD
Alois Pisnik	SED
Arthur Ploetz	SED
Rolf Poche	SED
Hans-Joachim Pohl	Culture Association
Klaus Polifka	FDJ
Rudolf Porschitz	NDPD
Fritz Preller	FDGB
Alois Proksch	CDU
Margot Pschebizin	FDGB
Otto Püllmann	LDPD	on September 24, 1969, for Rep. Dieckmann moved up
Wolfgang Pusch	FDJ	on May 12, 1969, for Rep. Scheyok moved up
Max plaster	SED
Bernhard Quandt	SED
Jürgen Quinger	FDJ
Erich Rätsch	SED
Helga Rateitzak	FDGB
Wolfgang Rauchfuss	SED
Helene Rausche	LDPD
Eberhard Rebling	KB	Berlin representative
Johannes Rech	FDJ	faction leader
Herbert Recknagel	CDU
Ursula Redel	FDJ
Hans Reichelt	DBD
Anni Rein	SED
Manfred Rentsch	NDPD
Fritz Rick	CDU	Berlin representative
Walter Riedel	CDU
Karl Rieke	SED
Hans Rietz	DBD
Hans Rodenberg	SED
Ilse Rodenberg	NDPD	Berlin representative
Fritz Rösel	FDGB
Wolfgang Rösser	NDPD
Paul Roscher	SED
Marianne Ross	DBD
Ewald Roßbach	DBD
Harald Rost	SED
Christian-Wilhelm Rowoldt	NDPD
Dorothea Rudolph	NDPD
Otto Rühle	NDPD	deceased on April 6, 1969
Heike Samland	CDU
Christa Samrowski	FDJ
Gertrud Sasse	LDPD
Paul Saul	SED
Lilli Schäfer	FDGB
Willi Schäfer	DBD
Peter Schejok	FDJ	Resignation of mandate on May 12, 1969
Horst Schewe	SED
Waldemar Schilling	FDGB
Gregor Schirmer	KB
Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher	DFD
Liselotte Bad	SED	Berlin representative
Otto Schlegelmilch	FDGB
Frank Schliephake	FDGB
Paula Schlitter	DFD
Ursula Schlosser	DFD
Elfriede Schmidt	DFD
Waldemar Schmidt	SED	Berlin representative
Maria Schneider	FDGB
Bernhard Schnieber	CDU
Karl-Heinz Schniebs	DBD	Berlin representative
Gerty Scholer	FDJ
Otto Schön	SED	deceased on September 15, 1968
Edith Schoenfelder	FDJ
Georg Scholz	LDPD
Paul Scholz	DBD
Erhard Schrader	DBD
Max Schreiber	FDGB
Bernd Schröder	FDJ
Ingeborg Schubert	DFD
Manfred Schubert	SED
Gerhard Schürer	SED
Hans Schuldt	CDU
Karl-Heinz Schoolmaster	KB
Margarete Schulz	SED	Berlin representative
Rudolph Schulze	CDU
Horst Schumann	SED
Gustav-Adolf Schur	FDJ
Erika Swedish	NDPD
Max Sefrin	CDU
Hans Seigewasser	SED
Anneliese Seume	NDPD
Max Seydewitz	SED
Rolf Sieber	FDGB
Heinz Siebert	DBD
Gustav Siemon	NDPD
Rosemarie Sievert	LDPD
Hans-Heinrich Simon	NDPD
Horst Sindermann	SED
Erna Sirch	LDPD
Heinz Sock	LDPD
Winfried Sunday	SED
Klaus Sorgenicht	SED
Osmar Spitzner	SED	deceased on November 24, 1969
Gerd Staegemann	NDPD
Luitpold Steidle	CDU
Manfred Steiner	DBD
Ursula Steinert	CDU
Werner Steuwer	LDPD
Albert Stephen	SED
Willi Stoph	SED
Paul Strauß	SED
Hans Stubbe	KB
Klaus-Dietrich Sturm	SED	on June 24, 1971, for Rep. Moved up happily
Max Suhrbier	LDPD	deceased on January 16, 1971
Siegfried Tannhäuser	SED
Hannelore Templiner	FDGB	Berlin representative
Bruno Thalmann	LDPD	Berlin representative
Ilse Thiele	DFD
Kurt Thieme	SED	Berlin representative
Liselotte Thoms-Heinrich	DFD	Berlin representative
Annelie Thorndike	KB
Walter Thürmer	LDPD	died on February 24, 1971
Hans-Manfred Thurm	CDU
Harry Tisch	SED
Werner Title	DBD
Heinrich Toeplitz	CDU
Gottfried Torbicki	NDPD
Herbert Trebs	CDU
Harry Trumpold	LDPD
Fritz Tschetschorke	DBD
Erich Uhlich	SED	MP until 1968
Walter Ulbricht	SED
Paul Ullmann	CDU
Hans Ulrich	NDPD
Johannes Unger	FDGB
Rolf Unger	LDPD
Paul Verner	SED
Ursula Völkner	DFD
Anni Vogt	CDU
Roland Voigtlander	DBD
Gerhard Wagner	LDPD
Herbert Walkowski	NDPD	on September 24, 1969, for Rep. Rühle moved up
Rosel Walther	NDPD
Herbert Warnke	SED
Irma Wattenbach	DFD
Hans Watzek	DBD
Christine Wedegärtner	FDJ
Margit Wegener	NDPD
Wolfgang Weichelt	SED
Johannes Weidauer	NDPD
Ingrid Weigelt	DFD
Susanne Refused	FDJ
Marta Weigt	DFD
Gerhard Weiss	SED
Herbert Weiz	SED
Regina Wenck	SED	Berlin representative
Ruth Wendt	SED
Josef Wenig	FDGB
Margaret Werner	SED	Berlin representative
Monika Werner	SED
Rudi Werner	DBD
Harald Werthmann	LDPD	Berlin representative
Günter Wiedemann	LDPD
Hans Wiesner	SED
Lothar Wilczek	CDU
Karin-Christiane Wilhelm	CDU
Richard O. Wilhelm	LDPD
Lisbeth Windisch	DFD
Otto winemaker	SED
Irmgard Wisor	FDJ
Lothar Witt	FDJ	Berlin representative
Karl-Heinz Wittig	NDPD
Werner Wittig	SED
Günter Wolf	FDGB
Werner Woolschläger	FDJ	Berlin representative
Werner Wolter	DBD
Kurt Wishes	LDPD
Werner Wünschmann	CDU
Marianne Wonderful	FDGB
Günter Wutzler	KB
Stephan Gardier	DBD
Gisela Zepp	DFD
Herbert Goat Rooster	SED
Erwin Ziesmann	DBD
Ute Zipfel	NDPD
Friedrich Zirpel	LDPD
Johann Zuber	FDGB
Hermann Zweigler	LDPD

Literature

• Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (Ed.) Die Volkskammer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik: 5. Wahlperiode. Berlin, Staatsverlag der DDR, 1967.
• Günther Buch: Namen und Daten wichtiger Personen der DDR. 3rd revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West)/Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7.

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