Wilhelm Pieck
German communist politician, president of GDR (1876-1960) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 84
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Something wrong?The only man to hold the title President of East Germany. Wilhelm Pieck spent a half-century in German communist politics - from the kaisers through two world wars - and ended up the ceremonial face of a state that dissolved the office when he died.
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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.
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