Cultural Association of the GDR

Celebration of the association's first birthday in 1946. Prominent in the front row are the painter Max Pechstein (left) and Berlin's first post-war mayor, Arthur Werner (right).

The Cultural Association of the GDR (Template:Langx, KB) was a federation of local clubs in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It formed part of the Socialist Unity Party-led National Front, and sent representatives to the Volkskammer. The association had numerous writers as its member, including Willi Bredel, Fritz Erpenbeck, Bernhard Kellermann, Victor Klemperer, Anna Seghers, Bodo Uhse, Arnold Zweig. Its first chairman was Johannes Robert Becher.

Wilfried Maaß was the Secretary of Kulturbund 1984–1990.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As of 1987, membership stood at 273,000.<ref>Dirk Jurich, Staatssozialismus und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung: eine empirische Studie, p.32. LIT Verlag Münster, 2006, Template:ISBN</ref>

Chairmen of the Cultural Association of the GDR

Name	Entered office	Left office
Johannes Robert Becher	1949	1958
Max Burghardt	1958	1977
Hans Pischner	1977	1990

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