Walter Ulbricht
German communist politician and dictator (1893–1973)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Ran East Germany's Communist machine for two decades and pushed Moscow hard enough to get the Berlin Wall built in 1961. Ulbricht held the real power from 1950 to 1973, even when others technically held the titles.
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Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician and revolutionary. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic. As the First Secretary of the Communist Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 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 own death in 1973. As the leader of a significant Communist satellite, Ulbricht had a degree of bargaining…
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