Although the State Bank was always politically subordinate to the GDR government, this was made explicit by a law of 19 December 1974 which defined the State Bank as an organ of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic and formalised the practice of the Bank’s president being a member of the Council of Ministers.
Staatsbank der DDR selalu politis berada di bawah pemerintah RDJ, berdasarkan hukum yang dikeluarkan pada 19 Desember 1974 yang menetapkan Staatsbank sebagai organ Dewan Menteri dari Republik Demokratik Jerman dan secara formal Presiden Staatsbank menjadi anggota dari Dewan Menteri.