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    Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈpiːk]; 3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German communist politician who served...
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    Guben was officially named "Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben" by East Germany after its first and only State President Wilhelm Pieck, who was born in the eastern...
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    1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960, he was also the East German head of state until his...
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    (SED) in 1946 and served as co-chairman of the party with KPD leader Wilhelm Pieck until 1950. Grotewohl chaired the Council of Ministers after the establishment...
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    the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the SED, headed by Wilhelm Pieck (1876–1960), who became President of the GDR and held the office until...
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    (née Pieck; 1 November 1898 – 13 May 1987) was a German communist and notable political activist. The eldest daughter of East German president Wilhelm Pieck...
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    Volkskammer acted as the president of the Republic. The sole incumbent was Wilhelm Pieck of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), elected on 11 October...
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    Minister. Arthur Pieck's father, Wilhelm Pieck, served as the President of East Germany between 1949 and 1960. Arthur Heinrich Walter Pieck, the second of...
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    Brandler (1921–1925) Ernst Thälmann (1925–1933) John Schehr (1933–1934) Wilhelm Pieck (1934–1946) Before the First World War the Social Democratic Party (SPD)...
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    interrogated and physically abused over a period of hours. KPD leader Wilhelm Pieck, who was also arrested when he visited the apartment that evening, witnessed...
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  • Präsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Upon the death of Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the office of president was replaced by a collective head of...
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    Lehmann, Otto Meier, August Karsten and Katharina Kern (from SPD), Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Franz Dalhem, Paul Merker, Anton Ackermann, Hermann...
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    unique history. Campus on Wilhelm Pieck Street There is a complex of academic and administrative buildings on Wilhelm Pieck Street, including a library...
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    Anton Ackermann and Peter Florin voting against and Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck voting for the adoption of the flag. The NKFD declared the overthrow...
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  • President of the German Democratic Republic. After the death of incumbent Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the office was replaced by a collective body as head of state...
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    congress. This congress elected two co-chairmen to lead the party: Wilhelm Pieck, former leader of the eastern KPD, and Otto Grotewohl, former leader...
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  • Soviet Union under the name of Anni Grob, her Russian visa endorsed by Wilhelm Pieck and Walter Ulbricht. The German occupation of Czechoslovakia ended the...
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  • anti-fascist unity. At the conference the ascension of Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck as the new main leaders of the KPD was affirmed. The Brussels Party...
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  • Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (Wilhelm Pieck: the Life of Our President) is a 1952 East German documentary film directed by Andrew Thorndike...
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  • political change, driven by rapid industrial and commercial expansion. Wilhelm Pieck, her father, was an active trades unionist and an instinctively adept...
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  • Irrumatio." "Tonguing." and "Tribaden.". Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität Rostock. pp. 28 (1979): 159–89, 29 (1980): 77–88, 30 (1981):...
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    keynote report on the Activities of ECCI, delivered on the second day by Wilhelm Pieck of the Communist Party of Germany. While lauding the 1928 tactic of...
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  • Nicholas Pieck (1534–1572), Dutch Roman Catholic saint Wilhelm Pieck (1876–1960), German communist politician This page lists people with the surname Pieck. If...
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    Deutschlands—LDPD), was formed in July 1945. The KPD (with 600,000 members, led by Wilhelm Pieck) and the SPD in East Germany (with 680,000 members, led by Otto Grotewohl)...
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    Hugo Eberlein, Julian Marchlewski, Franz Mehring, Ernst Meyer and Wilhelm Pieck. In the following week, a number of others joined the group: Martha...
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    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...
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    the USPD, Revolutionary Stewards and KPD chairmen Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck to call for a demonstration the following day. On 5 January, as on 9...
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  • ETO 1952: Győri Vasas 1953: Vasas SE Győr 1954: Wilhelm Pieck Vasas ETO SK Győr 1957: Magyar Wilhelm Pieck Vagon- és Gépgyár ETO Győr 1957: Győri Vasas ETO...
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    Decree was KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann; while KPD founding members Wilhelm Pieck and Walter Ulbricht—later to be leaders in postwar East Germany—were...
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    Democratic Party. Koch was elected chair of the founding committee, with Wilhelm Külz as his deputy; the writer Franz Xaver Kappus joined the board as well...
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