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Head - Working Group CMEA (1974-1985)The installation of the Working Group CMEA of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was another sign of the party’s intention to increase control over foreign trade. Naturally, the Working Group CMEA headed by Horst Tschanter had several CMEA-related tasks. Among them were the Standing Commission on Foreign Trade and the negotiations between EEC and CMEA. Witnessing the stalemate of this process, the Working Group CMEA proposed the most interesting initiative towards the EEC even advocating an independent East German approach. Tschanter’s proposals were forwarded to Günter Mittag who as Secretary for Economics was also responsible for this Working Group and maybe had some influence on Honecker’s views on the EEC.
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Werner Jarowinsky was a longstanding economic functionary of the GDR. Formally, his area of responsibility as Secretary of the Central Committee included foreign trade, however, on the party-level the Economic Secretary, Günter Mittag, mo... |
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Günter Mittag was the economic mastermind of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Within the provisions set by Erich Honecker he executed control over the East German economy. He served as Secretary of the Central Committee for Economics... |
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Comparable to the SED’s Secretary of the Central Committee for Trade, Supply and Foreign Trade Werner Jarowinsky, the head of the Department of Trade, Supply and Foreign Trade had hardly any actual influence on foreign trade and did not ... |
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Letter by Horst Tschanter to Paul Verner
SAPMO-BArch, DY 30/IV 2/2.036/71 | Bl. 93–94
In the late 1970s, Horst Tschanter was frustrated about the CMEA’s inability to negotiate a treaty with the EEC and recommended a reevaluation of the GDR's position toward the EEC. - Available only in the archive: https://www.bundesarchiv.de |
