Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse
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Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse (Society for the dissemination of scientific knowledge) was a cultural center of the VEB
Volkseigener Betrieb
The Volkseigener Betrieb was the legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany...

 cable plant Oberspree in East Berlin
East Berlin
East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945. The American, British and French sectors became West Berlin, a part strongly associated with West Germany but a free city...

 founded in 1954 and dissolved in 1990 whose goal was to educate the East German population, especially in the fields of science, technology, medicine, economics and other fields of social sciences.

The society was primarily for a general diffusion of scientific knowledge and promoting understanding of new technologies and the popularization of the sciences. It used DT64 including broadcasts on television in the GDR.In addition, it published popular science magazines and promoted further education for school teachers, organizing lectures, panel discussions and individual events on related subjects.

After the political changes of 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1991 Bundesverband Neue Urania ("Association of New Urania") was founded.
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