La transición-anexión de la República Democrática Alemana

Abstract

Hardly there are two transitions from dictatorship to democracy more different than the Spanish and the former GDR. In Spanish does not change the socio-economic organization or the structure of the state, and the GDR was marked by direct interference of the other German state that transplanted their socioeconomic and political organization? The unification was possible in a record time, thanks to Kohl negotiations with Gorbachev. The greatest difficulty was to privatize all the wealth of the country. In February 1990 the GDR government launched a trust company, Treuhandgesellschaft, which became the owner of all the assets of the GDR, passing after unification under the Ministry of Finance, with the capacity to decide which sold, to whom and at what price. The privatization of public goods is the biggest deal for friends of the governors, but when what is for sale is a whole country, corruption far exceeds personal contacts. The annexation of the GDR took much money to the Germans, but also meant a huge business for large companies. Everybody paid huge costs, the huge profits also fell on a few.