The Volkseigener Betrieb (German: people-owned enterprise; abbreviation: VEB) was the legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany. 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

Walter Ulbricht

Walter Ulbricht was a German communist politician. As First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971 , he played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany and later in the early development and...

" Leuna, which had to be "fought" for in the context of the socialist competition

Socialist competition

Socialist competition or socialist emulation was a form of competition between state enterprises and between individuals practiced in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern bloc states.- Competition vs...

 for plan fulfillment and overfulfillment. The VEB Braunkohlenwerk in Röblingen was named for Gustav Sobottka

Gustav Sobottka

Gustav Sobottka was a German politician in East Germany. He was a member of the Communist Party and was in exile during the Nazi era...

, an East German politician.

Examples

• VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach
  Automobilwerk Eisenach
  The Automobilwerk Eisenach was an automobile manufacturer in Eisenach, Germany.-Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach:Heinrich Ehrhardt founded the Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach in Eisenach on 3 December 1896 as a stock company...
  
  
• VEB BMK Kohle und Energie
• VEB Deutsche Schallplatten
  VEB Deutsche Schallplatten
  From the 1950s until the 1980s the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was the monopolistic music publisher in the German Democratic Republic.On August 12, 1946, the East Berlin singer and actor Ernst Busch got permission by Soviet military administration to institute a publishing house for music.On...
  
  
• VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen
  ORWO
  ORWO was an East German manufacturer of photographic film and magnetic tape. The basis for ORWO was the Agfa Wolfen plant, where the first modern colour film with incorporated colour couplers, Agfacolor, was developed in 1936....
  
  
• VEB Polytechnik
  VEB Polytechnik
  VEB Polytechnik was a company from the German Democratic Republic, located in Chemnitz . In the GDR it was mainly known for producing overhead projectors, called PolyLux....
  
  
• VEB Planeta
  MAN Roland
  manroland AG manufactures newspaper web offset presses, commercial web offset presses, and sheetfed offset presses for commercial, publications and packaging printing.The company has production facilities in Offenbach am Main and Augsburg...
  
  
• VEB Robotron
• VEB Typoart
  VEB Typoart
  VEB Typoart was the only type foundry of East Germany. It was a state-owned enterprise located in Dresden. The foundry's most influential art directors were Herbert Thannhäuser and Albert Kapr.-History:...
  
  
• VEB Uhrenwerke Ruhla
• VEB Volkswerft
  Volkswerft
  Volkswerft is a shipyard in the hanseatic city of Stralsund on the Strelasund. It is part of the German Hegemann-group.The Volkswerft was founded in 1945 as Ingenieurbau Ges.m.b.H....
  
   (Stralsund
  Stralsund
  - Main sights :* The Brick Gothic historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.* The heart of the old town is the Old Market Square , with the Gothic Town Hall . Behind the town hall stands the imposing Nikolaikirche , built in 1270-1360...
  
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• Kombinat VEB Zeiss Jena
  Jenoptik
  Jenoptik is an optoelectronics group located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany and a descendant of the pre-war Zeiss company. The business is divided into five divisions: Optical Systems, Lasers & Material Processing, Industrial Metrology, Traffic Solutions and Defense & Civil Systems.- Company profile...
  
  

See also

• Volkseigenes Gut
  Volkseigenes Gut
  The Volkseigenes Gut was a state-owned farm in the Communist German Democratic Republic , corresponding to the Soviet Sovkhoz and the Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne in the People's Republic of Poland...
  
  
• Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft
  Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft
  The German expression Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft , or — more commonly — its acronym LPG was the official designation for large, collectivised farms in the former East Germany, corresponding to Soviet Kolkhoz.The collectivisation of private and state owned agricultural...
  
  
• New Economic System
  New Economic System
  The New Economic System was an economic policy that was implemented by the ruling Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic in 1963. Its purpose was to replace the system of Five Year Plans which had been used to run the GDR's economy from 1951 onwards...
  
  

External links

• Gallery with many fotos depicting remainders of the German Democratic Republic, including restaurants, supermarkets, and buildings of VEBs.