List of Volkskammer members (4th election period)

This list provides an overview of all members of the People's Chamber of the GDR in the 4th legislative period (1963–1967).

Composition
In the 1963 East German general election, according to official information, 99.95% of the voters voted for the proposal of the National Front of the German Democratic Republic.

The election did not influence the strength of the factions. Their size was predetermined. Through a new electoral law, the number of deputy mandates was increased to 500. The VdgB no longer formed a faction.

Presidium
Johannes Dieckmann (LDPD) Hermann Matern (SED) August Bach (CDU)  Deceased in 1966  Hermann Kalb (CDU) Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (DFD) Otto Gotsche (SED) Ernst Goldenbaum (DBD) Grete Groh-Kummerlöw (FDGB) Jonny Löhr (NDPD)
 * President of the People's Chamber
 * Deputy President of the People's Chamber
 * Members of the Presidium:

Source:

Faction Leaders
Hermann Matern Leonhard Helmschrott Wolfgang Heyl Rudolf Agsten Wolfgang Rösser Rudolf Kirchner  until 1965  Hans Jendretzky Katharina Kern Helmut Müller Erich Wendt  until 1965  Karl-Heinz Schulmeister
 * Faction of the SED
 * Faction of the DBD
 * Faction of the CDU
 * Faction of the LDPD
 * Faction of the NDPD
 * Faction of the FDGB
 * Faction of the DFD
 * Faction of the FDJ
 * Faction of the Kulturbund

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: 4. Wahlperiode. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1964.
 * Günther Buch: Namen und Daten wichtiger Personen der DDR. 3rd revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7.

Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Liste der Mitglieder der Volkskammer der DDR (4. Wahlperiode); see its history for attriSEDion.