Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ...
To the GDR's Party and state leadership, this visit was the crown and confirmation of their persistent efforts to have the existence of two separate, sovereign German states recognised once and for all.
Given the speed and the thoroughness with which the GDR was removed from the map, and the immensity of the changes in the political landscape between 1989 and 1991, it would be easy to overlook the fact that not only did new states come into being in Europe but one old one also disappeared.
In the first and last free elections of the GDR on March 18, 1990, the leading communist party SED lost the majority, which was guaranteed in the previous elections, in the Volkskammer (the parliament of the GDR).
Although the inter-German border was largely closed by the mid-1950s (see GDR border system), the sector borders in Berlin were relatively easy to cross.
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