Demonstration by the Polish trade union Solidarnosc in the pilgrimage city of Tschenstochau (Poland). The illegal trade union Solidarnosc grew into a mass movement that could no longer be stopped.
Quelle: AP Photo

Nie genug vom Wahlbetrug

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Ever since the installation of the communist dictatorship, its opponents had been demanding free elections. There were no free elections in the GDR and no competition between political parties. The “leading role” of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) was anchored in the constitution. All the candidates for the government and parliament were placed on a single list. Actual voting consisted solely of approving or rejecting this list as a whole. According to official statistics, around 99 percent of voters generally opted for the candidates on the list. Although the politicians on the “united list”, as it was called, were actually elected by an overwhelming majority, many people suspected electoral fraud.

Protest by a resistance group in Eisenberg (Thuringia). The group produced several handwritten posters calling people to vote “no” at the People’s Chamber elections in October 1954. The members of the Eisenberger circle, most of them still at school, were sentenced to long penitentiary terms in 1958.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/BStU-Kopie
Graffiti in Berlin-Pankow, October 1976: “Don’t vote”. The Stasi mounted a search for the perpetrators, as this slogan was regarded as subversive and punishable by imprisonment. Large parts of the population were aware that there were no free elections in East Germany and the GDR government was not democratically legitimated.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/BStU-Kopie
Opposition activists from East Berlin distributed a flyer setting out their criticism of the GDR’s electoral system in June 1986. Hardly any of the voters were familiar with the government-backed candidates on the single list. It was not possible to vote for candidates separately; voters could only decide for or against the list as a whole.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft

Kommunalwahlen 1989

Oppositionelle wollen das bei den Kommunalwahlen am 7. Mai 1989 belegen und die Auszählung der Stimmen kontrollieren. Wochenlang bereiten sie sich auf diese Aufgabe vor. Die Stimmauszählung kann durch Stichproben überprüft werden. Der Vergleich mit dem amtlichen Endergebnis zeigt, dass staatliche Behörden die Auszählung manipuliert haben. Die offiziell verkündeten Wahlergebnisse sind gefälscht. Wahlen als Kernstück der Demokratie sind in der DDR nur Fassade.

Polling station in the East Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, 7 May 1989. Civil rights activists monitored the counting of the ballot papers in several locations at the 1989 local elections and discovered considerable discrepancies to the officially announced results.
Quelle: Archiv Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Bestand Klaus Mehner, Nr. 89_0507_POL_Wahlen_05
Few people dared to voice protest at this point: demonstration outside East Berlin’s St Sophie’s Church, 7 June 1989. The banner reads: “Never enough election fraud”. The proven ballot rigging enraged many people. From now on, a demonstration was held on Alexanderplatz on the seventh day of every month.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/Hans-Jürgen Röder
The Weißensee Peace Circle was the main initiator of the election monitoring campaign in East Berlin. Those who wanted to take part in the ballot counts in the polling stations were carefully prepared for the task in advance. Members of the Peace Circle: Ralf Sköries, Evelyn Zupke, Beate Pankow, Gunther Seifert (informer), Klaus Kupler, Frank Pfeifer (l.-r.).
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft/Siegbert Schefke
The Weißensee Peace Circle was the main initiator of the election monitoring campaign in East Berlin. Those who wanted to take part in the ballot counts in the polling stations were carefully prepared for the task in advance.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft
Opposition activists monitored the ballot count in many East German towns and cities after the local election of 7 May 1989. They compiled lists of the counts from the individual polling stations and compared them to the official results. The discrepancies between the figures were proof of the election fraud. The East Berlin Environmental Library published the rigged results in the documentation Wahlfall 89 (“Election Case 89”). The election fraud became the starting point for a central demand made by the East Germans in the months to come: for new, free and democratic elections.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft
Opposition activists monitored the ballot count in many East German towns and cities after the local election of 7 May 1989. They compiled lists of the counts from the individual polling stations and compared them to the offi cial results. The discrepancies between the figures were proof of the election fraud. The East Berlin Environmental Library published the rigged results in the documentation Wahlfall 89 (“Election Case 89”). The election fraud became the starting point for a central demand made by the East Germans in the months to come: for new, free and democratic elections.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft
Opposition activists monitored the ballot count in many East German towns and cities after the local election of 7 May 1989. They compiled lists of the counts from the individual polling stations and compared them to the offi cial results. The discrepancies between the figures were proof of the election fraud. The East Berlin Environmental Library published the rigged results in the documentation Wahlfall 89 (“Election Case 89”). The election fraud became the starting point for a central demand made by the East Germans in the months to come: for new, free and democratic elections.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft
Opposition activists monitored the ballot count in many East German towns and cities after the local election of 7 May 1989. They compiled lists of the counts from the individual polling stations and compared them to the offi cial results. The discrepancies between the figures were proof of the election fraud. The East Berlin Environmental Library published the rigged results in the documentation Wahlfall 89 (“Election Case 89”). The election fraud became the starting point for a central demand made by the East Germans in the months to come: for new, free and democratic elections.
Quelle: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft
[Translate to Türkisch:] Nach der Kommunalwahl am 7. Mai 1989 überwachen Oppositionelle in vielen Städten der DDR die Auszählung der Stimmen. Sie fassen die Ergebnisse aus den einzelnen Wahllokalen in Listen zusammen und vergleichen sie mit dem offiziellen Wahlergebnis. Anhand der Differenzen lässt sich der Wahlbetrug beweisen. In der Dokumentation „Wahlfall 89“ belegt die Ostberliner Umwelt-Bibliothek den Betrug. Die Wahlfälschung wird in den nächsten Monaten zum Ausgangspunkt für die Forderung vieler Ostdeutscher nach neuen, freien und demokratischen Wahlen.
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[Translate to Türkisch:] Nach der Kommunalwahl am 7. Mai 1989 überwachen Oppositionelle in vielen Städten der DDR die Auszählung der Stimmen. Sie fassen die Ergebnisse aus den einzelnen Wahllokalen in Listen zusammen und vergleichen sie mit dem offiziellen Wahlergebnis. Anhand der Differenzen lässt sich der Wahlbetrug beweisen. In der Dokumentation „Wahlfall 89“ belegt die Ostberliner Umwelt-Bibliothek den Betrug. Die Wahlfälschung wird in den nächsten Monaten zum Ausgangspunkt für die Forderung vieler Ostdeutscher nach neuen, freien und demokratischen Wahlen.
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