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Ulbricht became deputy prime minister in 1949 and secretary ( chief executive ) of the Socialist Unity ( Communist ) party in 1950.
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Ulbricht and became
In 1949 the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the Socialist Unity Party, headed by Wilhelm Pieck ( 1876 – 1960 ), who became president of the GDR and remained officially ' Number One ' until his death in 1960, while most executive authority was assumed by SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.
At the end of the war, Honecker resumed activity in the party under leader Walter Ulbricht, and, in 1946, became one of the first members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED ), which was formed by the merger of the KPD and the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
After the founding of the German Democratic Republic on 7 October 1949, Ulbricht became Deputy Chairman ( Stellvertreter des Vorsitzenden ) of the Council of Ministers ( Ministerrat der DDR ) under Chairman Otto Grotewohl -- i. e., deputy prime minister.
In East Germany, the Soviet occupation authorities forced the eastern branch of the SPD to merge with the KPD ( led by Pieck and Ulbricht ) to form the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ), which became the ruling party in East Germany until 1990.
And finally, upon the death of President Wilhelm Pieck on 7 September 1960, a constitutional amendment of 12 September 1960 replaced the office of President with the Council of State ( Staatsrat der DDR ); Walter Ulbricht became its first chairman.
In June 1945, he was appointed Regierungspräsident ( president of the government ) of Thuringia, an office he lost again in July after Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone, due to pressure from Walter Ulbricht.
After the death of Walter Ulbricht in 1973, Stoph became Chairman of the Council of State, and thus, head of state of the GDR.
In 1971, he became Deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, and two years later, its Chairman when the previous occupant, Willi Stoph, succeeded the deceased Walter Ulbricht as Chairman of the State Council.
In 1954, Wollweber became a delegate to the Volkskammer and a member of the SED ’ s Central Committee, but in 1956 his influence began to wane when he clashed with Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker on issues ranging from East Germany ’ s policies towards Poland to the estimate of the number of anti-Communist groups within the GDR.
Ulbricht and deputy
Wollweber resigned in 1957 after clashes with Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, and was succeeded by his deputy, Erich Mielke.
Ulbricht and minister
") In Paris, Ulbricht revealed to Otto Klepper, the German jurist and former Prussian minister of finance that " Wir schicken ihn nur nach Moskau, damit er erledigt wird ” (" We're sending him to Moscow, so that he is liquidated ").
Ulbricht and 1949
Mao Zedong | Mao, Stalin and Ulbricht, at Stalin's 70th birthday celebration in Moscow, December 1949 Ulbricht ( right ) with Nikita Khrushchev in 1963
Communist leaders in 1949: Mao Zedong, Nikolai Bulganin, Joseph Stalin, Walter Ulbricht, and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Ulbricht and secretary
Designated as an organ of the People's Chamber, the Council of State ( Staatsrat der DDR ) was largely a creation of Walter Ulbricht during his tenure as first secretary of the SED.
Ulbricht and Socialist
Within the Soviet occupied zone of Germany, the Social Democrats were pressured into merging with the Communists, on Communist terms, to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands or SED ), and Ulbricht played a key role in this.
Grotewohl, after initial hesitation, yielded to the pressure by the Soviet Military Administration and Walter Ulbricht and in April 1946 together with Pieck formed the new Socialist Unity Party ( SED ).
In 1964, Walter Ulbricht, leader of the Socialist Unity Party which governed East Germany, decided to allow the construction of a television tower on Alexanderplatz, modelled on the Fernsehturm Stuttgart.
Some people claim that the title character bears a resemblance to the then leader of the DDR, Walter Ulbricht, and the show was often a showcase for DDR and Socialist technology and success.
The South African Communist Party, the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party and Walter Ulbricht of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany sent greetings on the occasion of the founding of the party.
Ulbricht and Communist
* June 30 – Walter Ulbricht, German Communist Politician ( d. 1973 )
** East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Communist Party leader but retains the position of head of state.
In February 1943, following the surrender of the German Sixth Army at the close of the Battle of Stalingrad, Ulbricht, Weinert and Wilhelm Pieck conducted a Communist political rally in the center of Stalingrad which many German prisoners were forced to attend.
In April 1945, Ulbricht led a group of party functionaries (" Ulbricht Group ") into Germany to begin reconstruction of the German Communist party along orthodox Stalinist lines.
Fearful of the possible consequences of this continued outflow of refugees, and aware of the dangers an East German collapse would present to the Soviet Union ’ s Communist satellite empire, Ulbricht pressured Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in early 1961 to stop the outflow and resolve the status of Berlin.
In late 1936, fellow KPD exile Walter Ulbricht, who had parted ways with Münzenberg over the latter's refusal to carry out Stalin's directive to purge the KPD, urged him to take up an offer by Bulgarian Communist party leader Georgi Dimitrov, then residing in Moscow, to return there and assume other missions on behalf of the Comintern.
Ulbricht and party
Walter Ulbricht ( 1893 – 1973 ) was the party boss from 1950 to 1971.
Walter Ulbricht joined the party in 1912.
" The direct cost of labour force losses has been 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, including reparations as well as labour force losses.
Zaisser ( left ) beside Ulbricht ( middle ), 1953After the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in March 1953, Moscow favored replacing East Germany's Stalinist party leader Walter Ulbricht and considered Zaisser a potential candidate.
Wollweber tried to improve the Stasi ’ s domestic powers in the search of what he saw as western intelligence infiltration in the GDR, but this brought him into conflict with the mainstream in the SED party leadership, in particularly with Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker.
' ( This is a reference to a false statement by former East Germany SED party leader Walter Ulbricht who in 1961 claimed that " Nobody has the intention of building a wall " shortly before the wall was actually built.
Ulbricht and 1950
At the third congress of the SED in 1950, Ulbricht announced a five-year plan concentrating on the doubling of industrial production.
The party's dominant figure from 1950 to 1971, and effective leader of East Germany, was Walter Ulbricht.
* Walter Ulbricht ( July 1950 – May 3, 1971 )
The actual power holder however was Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the governing SED Central Committee from 1950 on.
* Walter Ulbricht ( General Secretary of the SED, 1950 – 71 ; Chairman of the Council of State, 1960 – 73 )
Ulbricht and .
Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.
The Chancellor had as much business there as Ulbricht had in East Berlin -- and was certainly less provocative than the juvenile sound-truck taunts of Gerhard Eisler.
As Walter Ulbricht noted, everything was made to look democratic while in reality Communists retained control in the background.
In 1933, Ulbricht had fled to Moscow, where he served as a Comintern agent loyal to Stalin.
Ulbricht lost power in 1971, but was kept on as a nominal head of state.
In Die Welt, a communist newspaper published in Stockholm the exiled communist leader Walter Ulbricht opposed the allies ( Britain representing “ the most reactionary force in the world ”) and argued: “ The German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against the socialist Soviet Union.
Carvings by famous names like Junghanel, Klaus Mertens, Karl, Olaf Kolbe, Petersen, Christian Ulbricht and especially the Steinbach nutcrackers have become collectors ' items.
Zaisser, who tried to depose SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht after the June 1953 uprising was after this removed by Ulbricht and replaced by Ernst Wollweber.
** Walter Ulbricht becomes leader of the German Communists in Moscow.
** German communists, led by Walter Ulbricht, arrive in Berlin.
** East German Premier Walter Ulbricht discusses negotiations about German reunification.
** Walter Ulbricht, East German leader ( b. 1893 )
** Walter Ulbricht announces that the agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany.
In 1971, he initiated a political power struggle that led, with Soviet support, to his replacing Ulbricht as First Secretary of the SED Central Committee and as chairman of the National Defense Council.
Walter Ulbricht ( 30 June 18931 August 1973 ) was a German communist politician.
Ulbricht was born in Leipzig, Saxony, where his father worked as a tailor.
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