The Treuhand privatisation agency (“Treuhandanstalt”) was created in 1990. Its task was to reorganise and privatise the nationally owned assets according to the principles of the social market economy and oversaw the restructuring and sale of about 8,500 state-owned companies with over four million employees.
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