People's Chamber

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The People's Chamber was the unicameral legislature and nominal supreme authority of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
People's Chamber canonical 2
Provisional People’s Chamber 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf parliament
unicameral legislature
alsoKnownAs People’s Chamber of the German Democratic Republic
Volkskammer
capitalOfJurisdiction East Berlin
composition deputies elected for four-year terms (nominally)
controlledBy Socialist Unity Party of Germany
country East Germany
German Democratic Republic
linked to: East Germany
deFactoRole rubber-stamp legislature
deJureRole supreme organ of state power of the GDR
dissolutionDate 2 October 1990
dissolved 1990
endTime 1990
firstElection 15 October 1950
followedBy representation of East German states in the Bundestag
governmentBranch legislative branch
hadCommittee Budget and Finance Committee
Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee
Foreign Affairs Committee
National Defense Committee
houseType unicameral
inception 7 October 1949
jurisdiction German Democratic Republic
linked to: East Germany
languageOfWorkOrName German
lastElection 18 March 1990
lastPresident Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
legalBasis Constitution of the German Democratic Republic (1949)
Constitution of the German Democratic Republic (1968)
legislatureOf German Democratic Republic
linked to: East Germany
locatedIn East Berlin
meetsIn Palace of the Republic
memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance parliamentary structures
notablePresident Horst Sindermann
Johannes Dieckmann
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
numberOfHouses 1
partOf government of the German Democratic Republic
presidingOfficerTitle President of the People’s Chamber
previousMeetingPlace Deutsches Theater Berlin
Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus
replaced Provisional People’s Chamber
linked to: People's Chamber
significantEvent adopted the law on the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990
elected the first and only freely elected GDR government in April 1990
startTime 1949
supersededBy Bundestag
votingSystem mixed-member proportional representation (1990)
single-list system (until 1990)

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Volkskammer alsoKnownAs People's Chamber
People's Chamber replaced Provisional People’s Chamber
linked to: People's Chamber