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Wilhelm Pieck
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German communist politician who served as the co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as the only president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 until his death in 1960.
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politics · President of East Germany from 1949 to 1960 · politician · resistance fighter · joiner · also Wilhelm Pieck, Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, Pieck
Born 3 January 1876 · Died 7 September 1960 · Q65917
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Moviefone: Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
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1960· 1 entry
Died 1960-09-07.
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1950· 1 entry
When Walter Ulbricht became the party's General Secretary as the party restructured along more orthodox Soviet lines
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1949· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of East Germany (1949–1960).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Hoyerswerda (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Pieck returned to Germany with the victorious Red Army
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1943· 1 entry
Pieck was among the founders of the National Committee for a Free Germany, an anti-Nazi organisation created by the Soviets aimed at Germans
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1924· 1 entry
Became the first chairman of the Rote Hilfe, serving until Clara Zetkin succeeded him the next year
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1922· 1 entry
Serving first on its executive committee then as chairman from 1937 to 1941
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1918· 1 entry
Pieck joined the newly founded Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
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1917· 1 entry
Over his opposition to the First World War
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1916· 1 entry
Pieck had asked Anton Pannekoek to continue teaching socialist theory in the party school
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1914· 1 entry
Moved to a three-room apartment in Berlin-Steglitz
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1899· 2 entries
And in 1906 became full-time secretary of the SPD
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Their son Arthur Pieck (1899–1970) served as head of the East German national airline Interflug from 1955 to 1965, after having held various administrative posts in East Germany, for instance at the German Economic Commission.
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1894· 1 entry
Pieck joined the wood-workers' federation, which steered him towards joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) the following year
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1876· 1 entry
Born 1876-01-03.
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