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1032:. At first, her parents did not want her to go out with a "red", but once she was pregnant, she was allowed to marry Wilhelm on 28 May 1898, on the condition that a traditional wedding in a church would still take place. On the wedding day Christine waited impatiently for Pieck to arrive at the church. At the last minute, he finally did, still carrying communist leaflets. In November 1936, his wife contracted
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On 22 June 1941, Pieck and his family were in their country house on the outskirts of Moscow. Pieck came downstairs at six o'clock to his children's bedroom and said: "Children, get up, it was announced on the radio that war is over. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, but that will be the end". In
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Nominally, for the GDR's first year, Pieck was the number-two man in the government behind
Grotewohl, who became the new country's first prime minister. In the East German political hierarchy, the prime minister was the top state official, while the president nominally ranked second.
761:. Two years later, his mother died. The father soon married the washerwoman Wilhelmine Bahro. After attending elementary school, the young Wilhelm completed a four-year carpentry apprenticeship. As a journeyman, he joined the German Timber Workers Association in 1894.
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Grotewohl) and served as SED co-chairman for the first four years of the party's existence. He was also a member of the SED's
Politburo, the highest authority in the party. Despite this, he played a mostly minor role in the party, particularly after 1950.
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Germany. At the beginning of May 1933, he left first to Paris and then to Moscow. In Moscow, Pieck served the Communist Party in a variety of capacities. From 1935 until 1943, he held the position of Secretary of the
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on 3 March 1933, remained de jure party leader until his execution on 18 August 1944; Schehr and later Pieck were acting chairmen as deputy leaders.
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Pieck was already 73 years old at the time of his initial election as president. He nominally held the second highest state post in the GDR (behind
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apartment and moved into a cook's room. His son and daughter had been in the Soviet Union since 1932 while
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Die Internationale. Wurzeln und Erscheinungsformen des proletarischen Internationalismus.
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House of Wilhelm Pieck in Majakowskiring 29, Berlin
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1433:"Elly Winter ĂŒber ihren Vater Wilhelm Pieck"
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1561:Party Executive Committee until 1950
1514:Peter Erler; Helmut MĂŒller-Enbergs.
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2542:Members of the Reichstag 1930â1932
2537:Members of the Reichstag 1928â1930
2164:League of Communists of Yugoslavia
1982:Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
1332:âIch lieĂ Rosa Luxemburg richten.â
1182:Pieck, Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold.
774:Social Democratic Party of Germany
660:1920â1921; 1926â1937: Full member,
649:Politburo of the Central Committee
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1897:Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
1370:Red Flag: A History of Communism
1243:Neiberg, Michael S., ed. (2007).
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1940:Socialist Unity Party of Germany
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419:1921 â 14 June 1928
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289:Constituency established
124: â 25 July 1950
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1493:Wer war wer in der DDR?
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263:Provisional Volkskammer
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2293:(1871â1945)
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2005:JĂĄnos KĂĄdĂĄr
1925:MiloĆĄ JakeĆĄ
1849:Enver Hoxha
1739:Willi Stoph
1579:Karl Dönitz
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1472:25 February
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1416:25 February
1337:Der Spiegel
1282:Peter Nettl
1217:(in German)
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994:East Berlin
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809:Wilmersdorf
782:World War I
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592:Elly Winter
574:(1895â1918)
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551:(1946â1960)
533:East Berlin
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338:Preceded by
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301:Willi Stoph
284:Preceded by
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215:Preceded by
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71:Karl Dönitz
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1968:Egon Krenz
1854:Ramiz Alia
1749:Egon Krenz
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612:Politician
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2000:Imre Nagy
1995:ErnĆ GerĆ
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