The Volkseigener Betrieb (German: people-owned enterprise; abbreviation: VEB) was the legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state They were publicly owned and were routinely combined with other organizational units called Kombinate.

An honorary name was frequently added to the firm's actual name, for example, VEB Kombinat Chemische Werke "Walter Ulbricht" Leuna, which had to be "fought" for in the context of the socialist competition for plan fulfillment and overfulfillment. Walter Ulbricht ( June 30, 1893 &ndash August 1, 1973) was a German Communist politician

Examples

• VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach
• VEB BMK Kohle und Energie
• VEB Deutsche Schallplatten
• VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen (ORWO)
• VEB Polytechnik
• VEB Robotron
• VEB Typoart
• VEB Volkswerft (Stralsund)

See also

• Volkseigenes Gut
• Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft
• New Economic System

External links

• Gallery with many fotos depicting remainders of the German Democratic Republic, including restaurants, supermarkets, and buildings of VEBs. The Automobilwerk Eisenach ( AWE) was an Automobile manufacturer in Eisenach, Germany. From the 1950s until the 1980s the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was the monopolistic music publisher in the German Democratic Republic. ORWO was a manufacturer of Photographic film and Magnetic tape. VEB Polytechnik was a company from the German Democratic Republic, located in Chemnitz (then called Karl-Marx-Stadt This article is about the East German company For the Australian company see Robotron Group. VEB Typoart was the only Type foundry of East Germany. It was a State-owned enterprise (" Volkseigener Betrieb " located in Dresden Volkswerft (Volkswerft Stralsund GmbH is a Shipyard in the hanseatic city of Stralsund on the Strelasund. Stralsund (ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt is a city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, situated at the southern Coast of the Strelasund (a sound The Volkseigenes Gut ( German:State owned Property shortened VEG was a state owned farm in the German Democratic Republic (GDR the German correspondence of the The German expression Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft ( phonetically: "lahnd-weird-shaft-lee-che pro-duct-eonz-gae-noss-an-shaft" or &mdash more The New Economic System (Neues Ökonomisches System was an economic policy that was implemented by the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED of the German

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