Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈʔʊlbʁɪçt]; 30 June 1893 – 1 August 1973) was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role...
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Ulbricht is a German surname. Notable people with this name include: Beate Ulbricht (1944–1991), Soviet adopted daughter of Walter and Lotte Ulbricht...
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Stadion der Weltjugend (redirect from Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion)
Party, Walter Ulbricht for the first "Deutschlandtreffen ("German Festival") of the Free German Youth. The stadium was named after Walter Ulbricht. In the...
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First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR Walter Ulbricht and his wife Lotte. Ulbricht was born Mariya Pestunova in 1944 in Leipzig in what...
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co-chairmanship of the ruling SED (which he held with Grotewohl) in 1950, when Walter Ulbricht became the party's first secretary as the party restructured along...
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Germany (SED) official and the second wife of the East German leader Walter Ulbricht. She was born the younger of two children in Rixdorf in 1903. Her father...
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The Ulbricht Doctrine, named after East German leader Walter Ulbricht, was the assertion that normal diplomatic relations between East Germany and West...
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and in August 1961, with Khrushchev's backing, East German leader Walter Ulbricht ordered the closing of the border and the construction of a wall around...
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of Marxism–Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. Walter Ulbricht was the party's dominant figure and effective leader of East Germany...
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led, with support of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to him replacing Walter Ulbricht as General Secretary of the SED and chairman of the National Defence...
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Throbbing Gristle, released in Germany in April 1982 through record label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien. Journey Through a Body was a piece of "radio art" commissioned...
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apparent to longtime party leader Walter Ulbricht, but his ascendancy was checked by Erich Honecker. After Ulbricht's death in 1973, Stoph became Chairman...
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would remain divided indefinitely. In East Berlin, General Secretary Walter Ulbricht of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the ruling party of...
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Deutschlands, or KPD) and the National Committee for a Free Germany, led by Walter Ulbricht, who flew from the Soviet Union back to Germany on April 30, 1945....
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and served as the de jure head of government under First Secretary Walter Ulbricht until his death in 1964. Grotewohl was born on 11 March 1894 in Braunschweig...
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received by youth, with protests beginning in summer 1959 that mocked Walter Ulbricht and supported Elvis Presley. David Byrne described Lipsi as "a weird...
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normality" in a form of "silent repression". Erich Honecker's succession to Walter Ulbricht as First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in...
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Schirdewan was seen as a potential successor to Walter Ulbricht but fell out of favour in 1958. Ulbricht continued to lead the government until 1971, while...
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Pact, he abandoned efforts to that end, while Thälmann's party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Thälmann was shot dead by...
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War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies. East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct...
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under Walter Ulbricht, Mielke was not involved in routine intelligence briefings to the leadership which, instead, were provided directly to Ulbricht by...
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Rudolf Herrnstadt (section Against Walter Ulbricht)
power struggle against the General Secretary of the Central Committee,Walter Ulbricht. After the uprising of 17 June 1953, where Herrnstadt had shown understanding...
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churches. For the same reasons, the structure was also called "St. Walter" (from Walter Ulbricht). U.S. President Ronald Reagan mentioned this in his Tear down...
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estimated at $7 billion to $9 billion, with East German party leader Walter Ulbricht later claiming that West Germany owed him $17 billion in compensation...
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Economic System of Socialism (section Fall of Ulbricht)
1968 and 1970, which was introduced and led by the country's leader, Walter Ulbricht. It focused on high technology sectors in an attempt to make self-sufficient...
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Parteigeschichte und Zensur unter Walter Ulbricht [The Red Thread. Communist party history and censorship under Walter Ulbricht] (PDF). Zeithistorische Studien...
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uses in propaganda, such as a book on the life of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and another on Albanian leader Enver Hoxha. As of 2011, Madonna's 1992...
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11 – Donald J.M. Russell August 18 – C. Douglas Dillon August 25 – Walter Ulbricht September 1 – Lawrence F. O'Brien September 8 – Nikita Khrushchev September...
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the GDR's economy from 1951 onwards. The System was introduced by Walter Ulbricht to try to improve the performance of the existing central planning...
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actor Walter Tewksbury (1876–1968), American athlete Walter Thurnherr (born 1963), Swiss government official, Chancellor of Switzerland Walter Ulbricht (1893–1973)...
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