Die unbekannten Politikverhandler im Umbruch Europas

After the elections to the People's Chamber, the last and only democratically elected government of the GDR was sworn in on 12 April 1990 under Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière. Its goal was to negotiate and develop the domestic and foreign policy framework conditions for the GDR's accession to the Federal Republic of Germany. 22 ministries were newly formed or restructured for this purpose. Each ministry had at least one, but usually several, state secretaries or parliamentary state secretaries, who, however, the public is hardly aware of as political actors in the political transformation process of the GDR.In addition to a detailed introduction, the volume contains eyewitness interviews with five state secretaries of the last GDR government:1) Hans Misselwitz, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs2) Dr. Helmut Domke, State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 3) Dr Petra Erler, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office4) Almuth Berger, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office5) Helga Kreft, State Secretary in the Ministry of Family Affairs and Women's Affairs.