Council of Ministers of East Germany

The Council of Ministers (German: Ministerrat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, pronounced [miˈnɪstɐˌʁaːt deːɐ ˌdɔʏtʃn̩ demoˌkʁaːtɪʃn̩ ʁepuˈbliːk]) was the cabinet and executive organ of the German Democratic Republic from November 1950 until the country was reunified on 3 October 1990. Initially called the Government of the Republic under the first East German constitution which nominally established the GDR as a liberal democratic republic, it was redefined by the fully-socialist constitution of 1968 as the executive and administrative organ of East Germany's parliament, the Volkskammer, which was itself redefined as a supreme organ of state power within a one-branch system.

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