Organisations based in East Germany

East German political youth organization, founded in 1946 as a state mass organization, since 1990 only a small association

mass women's organization in Germany

East German mass organization (1947–1992)

People outside the opening of the first HO Department Store in Berlin in November 1948|thumb The Handelsorganisation (“Trading Organisation”, or HO) was a national retail business owned by the central administration of the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany and from 1949 on by the state of the German Democratic Republic. It was created in 1948. The enterprise was arranged into different departments – industrial goods, food, restaurants and department stores – and operated the large “Centrum” department stores in many cities of the GDR. Its stores stood in competition to those of the Konsum c

German Gymnastics and Sports Federation

East German association of writers

cooperative retail chain founded in 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration in occupied East Germany

German welfare organization