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Fotothek df roe-neg 0002793 004 Portrait Wilhelm Piecks im Publikum der Bachfeier
Wilhelm Pieck in 1950
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-09139-020, Berlin, 75. Geburtstag Wilhelm Piecks
Soviet Marshal Chuikov, USSR ambassador Vladimir Semyonov, and Wilhelm Pieck

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (3 January 1876 in eastern Guben (today Poland) - 7 September 1960 in Berlin) was an (East) German communist politician. He was a member of the Spartacus League. He was joint founder, and from 1946 to 1950 co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED, together with Otto Grotewohl), and from 1949 to his death in 1960 the first and only president of the GDR.

During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Landtag of Prussia from 1921 to 1928, and afterwards a member of the Reichstag from 1928 to 1933, both on behalf of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).



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  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-08783-0009, Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, Einweihung Gedenkstätte

    Pieck in 1926

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-19000-3301, Berlin, DDR-Gründung, Wahl Pieck, Grotewohl

    Pieck (left) and Otto Grotewohl in 1949

  • BM OderNeisse

    1951 East German commemorative stamp of the Treaty of Zgorzelec establishing the Oder-Neisse line as a “border of peace”, with Pieck and President Bolesław Bierut of Poland

  • MajakowskiringPieck

    House of Wilhelm Pieck in Majakowskiring 29, Berlin

  • Pieck-tomb

    His tomb in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde

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