This photograph was taken during an event to launch the First Five-Year Plan in the GDR on New Year's Day 1951. The minster for industry, Fritz Selbmann (1899–1975), laid the foundation stone for furnace no. 1 in Hüttenkombinat Ost (Iron and Steel Works East).
Laying of the foundation stone in Hüttenkombinat Ost, black-and-white photograph, GDR 1951, photographer: Horst Sturm; source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-09117-0006, wikimedia commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-09117-0006,_Grundsteinlegung_im_H%C3%BCttenkombinat_Ost.jpg?uselang=de.