The section “Kommerzielle Koordinierung” was a part of the GDR’s Ministry for Foreign Trade, in 1972 put directly under control of the Central Comitee (ZK) of the “Socialist Unity Party of Germany” (SED), notably under Secretary General Erich Honecker and Economic Secretary Günther Mittag and connected to the Ministry for State Security with 140 employees.
Headed by State Secretary for Foreign Trade, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, it’s main duty was to generate foreign exchange for the interior market.
It further gave clandestine financial fundings and support to the German Communist Party of Western-Germany (DKP).
After the “German Wende” in 1989/90 several commissions of enquiry tried to unbind the intransparent business of “KoKo” with specially founded cooperations in Western-Germany and possible “KoKo”-involved murder-cases against western-german business men.
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Bernd Pulch 