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1960-09-13 |
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| Name | Walter Ulbricht |
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Döllnsee, , East Germany |
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June 30, 1893
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| Died | August 01, 1973
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| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Walter Ulbricht was a German communist politician. He led the German Democratic Republic from 1950 until 1971.
Ulbricht was born in Leipzig as the son of a tailor. Both parents were active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD). He attended secondary school (Volksschule), and learned the trade of a joiner. Later, he served in World War I from 1915 to 1918 on the Polish, Serbian and Western Fronts.
In 1918, Ulbricht joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany. A founding member of the German Communist Party (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) in 1919, Ulbricht attended the International Lenin School of the Komintern in Moscow in 1924/1925. He was subsequently voted into the regional parliament of Saxony (Sächsischer Landtag) in 1926. He became an MP of the German parliament (Reichstag) from 1928 to 1933. After the Nazi Party came to power, Ulbricht lived in exile in Paris and Prague from 1933 to 1938, then in Moscow from 1938 to 1945.
A leader of the East German communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) from 1949 to 1971, he was also Staatsratsvorsitzender (head of state) of the German Democratic Republic from 1960, when President Wilhelm Pieck died, until his own death in 1973. He was effectively ousted from power by Erich Honecker when he had to hand over the leadership of the communist party in 1971, although he remained the head of state. He died at the Döllnsee near Berlin on August 1, 1973.
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