State Planning Commission (GDR)

SPC office in Berlin

The State Planning Commission (SPC) (German: Staatliche Plankommission) was a central state authority of the GDR Council of Ministers for planning, coordinating and proportional development of all sectors of the economy, public education and other areas of public life in the districts and for solving the most important economic tasks. In the central administrative economy of the GDR, it was responsible for the coordination, elaboration and control of the medium-term perspective plans (five-year plan) and the annual economic plans derived from them.[1][2][3]

Seven year plan infographics by SPC

Heinrich Rau was the first chairman of SPC in 1950–1952.[4]

  1. ^ "Staatliche Plankommission". universal_lexikon.deacademic.com. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  2. ^ "Staatliche Plankommission". www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  3. ^ "State Planning Commission (SPK)". library.fes.de. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  4. ^ "Kabinettsprotokolle Online "Rau, Heinrich" (5.16:)". 2016-03-06. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2022-11-17.