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    Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl (German pronunciation: [ˈɔtoː ˈɡʁoːtəvoːl]; 11 March 1894 – 21 September 1964) was a German politician who served as the first...
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    20 August 1950 and was named "Otto Grotewohl Stadium", in honour of the then East German Prime Minister, Otto Grotewohl. Between 1986 and 1992, the stadium...
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    player Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), German politician Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), East German politician Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist Otto Herschmann...
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    party's co-chairman, alongside former SPD leader Otto Grotewohl. His hand appeared alongside Grotewohl's on the SED's "handshake" logo, derived from the...
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    after the death of Otto Grotewohl. However, he had been serving as acting chairman of the council since October 1960 due to Grotewohl's poor health. He was...
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    At the inaugural meeting of the Volkskammer on 8 November 1950, Otto Grotewohl was elected Prime Minister. At the same time, the law on the government...
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    Walter Ulbricht assumed most executive authority. Socialist leader Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964) became prime minister until his death. The government of...
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    50,000 Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy) 17 September 1958 21:00 CET Otto-Grotewohl-Stadion, Aue Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Antonín Růžička (Czechoslovakia)...
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    Ministers (Ministerrat der DDR) under Minister-President and chairman Otto Grotewohl, i.e., deputy prime minister. In 1950, as the SED restructured itself...
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    (1898–1943) Wehrmacht and Abwehr officer Rudolf Grosse [de] (1905–1942), KPD Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), SPD Karl Gruber (1912–1945), London "Free Germans" of the...
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    lead the party: Wilhelm Pieck, former leader of the eastern KPD, and Otto Grotewohl, former leader of the eastern SPD. The union was initially intended...
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    section of the street was named after the former GDR Minister-president Otto Grotewohl, who had died in office on September 21. Several embassies of "befriended"...
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    quotas. The Soviet decree was given to SED leaders Walter Ulbricht and Otto Grotewohl on 2 June, the day they landed in Moscow. Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov...
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    Rapid Wien on aggregate; play-off needed. 13 October 1957 20:00 CET Otto Grotewohl stadion, Aue Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)...
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    The First cabinet of Otto Grotewohl, also known as the Provisional Government of the GDR was formed by a law on the government of the GDR (passed by the...
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  • (1876–1960) 22 April 1946 25 July 1950 4 years, 94 days SED . Grotewohl, OttoOtto Grotewohl (1894–1964) 22 April 1946 25 July 1950 4 years, 94 days SED...
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    in a ceremony in the Festsaal, with Wilhelm Pieck as President and Otto Grotewohl as Prime Minister (Ministerpräsident). Later the building served the...
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  • January 1953 as the head secretary of the East German prime minister, Otto Grotewohl. Convicted of espionage, she and her lover Karl Laurenz were guillotined...
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    chanted slogans for five hours, demanding to speak to Walter Ulbricht and Otto Grotewohl. Only Heavy Industry Minister Fritz Selbmann and Professor Robert Havemann...
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    SPD at every level. The party Chairmen were Wilhelm Pieck (KPD) and Otto Grotewohl (SPD), their deputies Walter Ulbricht (KPD) and Max Fechner (SPD). The...
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    of Czechoslovakia, Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Otto Grotewohl – Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic...
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    built in 1961. After the picnic, which was based on an idea of Karl's father Otto von Habsburg to test the reaction of the USSR and Mikhail Gorbachev to an...
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    signed on 6 July 1950 in Zgorzelec, Poland. The agreement was signed by Otto Grotewohl, prime minister of the provisional government of the GDR (East Germany)...
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    Kim on a 1956 visit to East Germany, chatting with painter Otto Nagel and Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl...
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    whose task it was to develop a constitution. Future Minister-President Otto Grotewohl was the chairman of this committee. An election was held in May 1949...
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  • Pieck (Chairman of the SED - jointly with Otto Grotewohl, 1946–50, ; State President, 1949–60) Otto Grotewohl (Chairman of the SED - jointly with Wilhelm...
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    July 1953 – 24 November 1955 President Wilhelm Pieck Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl Deputy Erich Mielke Preceded by Office created Succeeded by Office abolished...
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    below "world market prices", both for exports and for imports. In 1964 Otto Grotewohl and Willi Stoph took over as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. At...
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    used as the national emblem. In spite of such use, Minister-President Otto Grotewohl urged that these emblems were semiofficial and should not be referred...
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    Wilhelm Pieck) and the SPD in East Germany (with 680,000 members, led by Otto Grotewohl), which was under strong pressure from the Communists, merged in April...
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