sentences:  Afterwards he was head of the "Zentralen Kontrollkommission" ("Central Control Commission") of the German Economic Commission and from 1949 to 1954, of the "Zentrale Kommission für Staatliche Kontrolle", an executive organ of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) in the Soviet occupation zone, later the GDR.From 1950 to 1958, he was a representative in the Volkskammer and a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED.In 1954, he became the Minister of Education.