Volkskammer
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- Name (English)
- Volkskammer
- Short name
- People´s Chamber
- Short Description
- "The Volkskammer (German: [ˈfɔlkskamɐ], People´s Chamber) was the unicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic (popularly called East Germany).
The Volkskammer was initially the lower house of a bicameral legislature. The upper house was the Chamber of States, or Länderkammer, but in 1952 the states of East Germany were dissolved, and the Chamber was abolished in 1958. Constitutionally, the Volkskammer was the highest organ of state power in the GDR, and both constitutions vested it with great lawmaking powers. All other branches of government, including the judiciary, were theoretically responsible to it. By 1960, the chamber appointed the Council of the State, the Council of Ministers, and the National Defence Council." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
- kio
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