Wilhelm Pieck facts for kids

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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
Marshal Chuikov, ambassador USSR, and W.Pieck

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (born 3 January 1876 in Guben; today Gubin, Poland; died 7 September 1960 in Berlin) was a German politician, a Social Democrat and a late communist. He was joint founder of the SED and from 1949 to his death in 1960 the first and only president of the GDR.


Images for kids

  • 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

  • Pieck-tomb

    His tomb in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde


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