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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Wilhelm Pieck as a young party activist, 1907
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Pieck's official Reichstag portrait, 1928
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Walter Ulbricht, Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl at the founding ceremony of the German Democratic Republic, 1949
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Pieck meeting with Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, 1959
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Honorary title "Hero of the Lebour" of the German Democratic Republic, here ribbon bar.
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Order of Karl Marx ribbon bar
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Patriotic Order of Merit GDR ribbon bar gold
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GDR Order of Banner of Labor (1954-1974) BAR
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CZE Rad Bileho Lva 3 tridy BAR
Pieck in June 1926, dedicating the memorial statue for the victims of the German November Revolution of 1918
