German People's Council

The main task of the People's Council was to draw up a constitution on the basis of a draft presented by the SED in 1946.

At the inaugural meeting of a further 100 people had been invited from the Western zones in order to underscore the overall German claim.

In the People's Council, a constitutional committee was formed that would develop under the leadership of Otto Grotewohl (SED) as a condition of the German Democratic Republic.

The draft was drawn up by the committee on 22 October 1948 approved by the People's Council and on 19 March 1949 formally adopted.

It appeared on 7 October 1949 together, during the Declaration of the German Democratic Republic, and constituted itself as a provisional parliament of the GDR.