# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-pieck
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:55:54.349Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pieck joined the SPD in the 1890s and broke with it in 1917 over the First World War, helping to co-found the Spartacus League and then the KPD. He became chairman of the KPD after Ernst Thälmann and John Schehr were imprisoned by the Nazis. When the war ended, he engineered the 1946 merger of the KPD and SPD into the Socialist Unity Party, which would rule East Germany for four decades. In 1949 he was named president of the newly formed German Democratic Republic, a role he held until his death on 7 September 1960. The office died with him.