Walter Ulbricht (as Chairman of the State Council)
Chairman of the Socialist Unity Party
In office 22 April 1946 – 25 July 1950
Serving with Otto Grotewohl
Deputy
Walter Ulbricht
Max Fechner
Preceded by
himself(as Chairman of the KPD)
Succeeded by
Walter Ulbricht (as General Secretary)
Chairman of the Communist Party of Germany
In office February 1934 – 22 April 1946
Preceded by
John Schehr
Succeeded by
himself(as Co-Chairman of the Socialist Unity Party)
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Volkskammer
In office 18 March 1948 – 22 February 1950
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Willi Stoph
Member of the Reichstag for Berlin
In office 1 July 1928 – 28 February 1933
Preceded by
multi-member district
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Member of the Landtag of Prussia for Potsdam II
In office 25 May 1932 – 31 March 1933
Preceded by
multi-member district
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
In office 1921 – 14 June 1928
Preceded by
Adolph Hoffmann
Succeeded by
Erich Raddatz
Personal details
Born
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck
(1876-01-03)3 January 1876 Guben, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Gubin, Poland)
Died
7 September 1960(1960-09-07) (aged 84) East Berlin, East Germany
Political party
Socialist Unity Party (1946–1960)
Other political affiliations
Communist Party of Germany (1918–1946) Social Democratic Party (1895–1918)
Spouse
Christine Häfker
Children
Elly Winter Arthur Pieck Eleonore Staimer
Occupation
Politician
Party Clerk
Carpenter
Signature
Central institution membership
1949–1960: Full member, Politburo of the Central Committee
1946–1960: Full member, Central Committee[note 1]
1920–1921; 1926–1937: Full member, KPD Politburo
Other offices held
1930–1932: Member, Prussian State Council
1929–1933: Member, Berlin City Council
1906–1910: Member, Bürgerschaft of Bremen
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (German pronunciation:[ˈvɪlhɛlmˈpiːk]; 3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German communist politician who served as the chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1960.[1]
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^Rolf Badstübner and Wilfried Loth (eds) Wilhelm Pieck – Aufzeichnungen zur Deutschlandpolitik 1945–1953, Berlin: Wiley-VCH, 1994
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈpiːk]; 3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German communist politician who served...
Guben was officially named "Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben" by East Germany after its first and only State President WilhelmPieck, who was born in the eastern...
the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the SED, headed by WilhelmPieck (1876–1960), who became President of the GDR and held the office until...
Volkskammer acted as the president of the Republic. The sole incumbent was WilhelmPieck of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), elected on 11 October...
1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President WilhelmPieck's death in 1960 on, he was also the East German head of state until his...
(SED) in 1946 and served as co-chairman of the party with KPD leader WilhelmPieck until 1950. Grotewohl chaired the Council of Ministers after the establishment...
unique history. Campus on WilhelmPieck Street There is a complex of academic and administrative buildings on WilhelmPieck Street, including a library...
Minister. Arthur Pieck's father, WilhelmPieck, served as the President of East Germany between 1949 and 1960. Arthur Heinrich Walter Pieck, the second of...
prisoners interrogated and mistreated over a period of hours. KPD leader WilhelmPieck, who was also arrested when he visited the apartment that evening, witnessed...
Präsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Upon the death of WilhelmPieck in 1960, the office of president was replaced by a collective head of...
congress. This congress elected two co-chairmen to lead the party: WilhelmPieck, former leader of the eastern KPD, and Otto Grotewohl, former leader...
keynote report on the Activities of ECCI, delivered on the second day by WilhelmPieck of the Communist Party of Germany. While lauding the 1928 tactic of...
notable political activist. The eldest daughter of East German president WilhelmPieck, Elly Winter was a longtime activist in the anti-fascist movement and...
Deutschlands—LDPD), was formed in July 1945. The KPD (with 600,000 members, led by WilhelmPieck) and the SPD in East Germany (with 680,000 members, led by Otto Grotewohl)...
KC 85/3 and KC 85/4) built in East Germany by VEB Mikroelektronik "WilhelmPieck" Mühlhausen. The first model in the series, the HC 900, originally designed...
each of the component parties at every level. The party Chairmen were WilhelmPieck (KPD) and Otto Grotewohl (SPD), their deputies Walter Ulbricht (KPD)...
Wilhelm Zaisser (20 June 1893 – 3 March 1958) was a German communist politician and statesman who served as the founder and first Minister for State Security...
Soviet Union under the name of Anni Grob, her Russian visa endorsed by WilhelmPieck and Walter Ulbricht. The German occupation of Czechoslovakia ended the...
provisional government and established the German Democratic Republic with WilhelmPieck as its first president. On 5 November 1949, the SMAD was abolished and...
Kurella Arno von Lenski Wolfgang Leonhard Vincenz Müller Friedrich Paulus WilhelmPieck Theodor Plievier Hermann Rentzsch Willy Riedel Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach...
political change, driven by rapid industrial and commercial expansion. WilhelmPieck, her father, was an active trades unionist and an instinctively adept...
Zetkin, Paul Frölich, Hugo Eberlein, Franz Mehring, August Thalheimer, WilhelmPieck and Ernst Meyer. Levi led the party away from the policy of immediate...
Gromyko. The Volkskammer then convened with the Länderkammer to elect WilhelmPieck as the first President of East Germany and Otto Grotewohl as the first...
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