The Ministry for State Security of Communist East Germany was more commonly known by which abbreviated name?
Ministry of Justice (East Germany) in the protests of June 1953 in an interview with Neues Deutschland, Fechner was removed from office, denounced as an "enemy of the state and the party" and spent three years in prison and Stasi internment. He was replaced by Hilde Benjamin, who had presided over the show trials of the 1950s. In 1963, the power of the ministry was weakened by a decree which transferred responsibility for control of the courts to the Supreme Court of East Germany, which reported directly to the State Council. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the Ministry of Justice oversaw the transfer
Ministry for Foreign Affairs (East Germany) Ministry for Foreign Affairs (East Germany) The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic (, abbreviated "MfAA") was a government body of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) that existed from 1949 to 1990. It had its seat at Schinkelplatz in Berlin-Mitte. A new foreign ministry building was constructed from 1964-1967, but the building was demolished in 1996 after German reunification. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs was led by the Foreign Minister of the German Democratic Republic and a number of deputies. However, the Foreign Minister had less actual influence over the foreign policy than the central committee