page_title: Wilhelm Pieck
hierarchical_section_title: Wilhelm Pieck
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Berlin, 75. Geburtstag Wilhelm Piecks ADN-ZB-Illus-Heilig Geburtstagsempfang für Präsident Pieck. Am 3.11951, seinem 75. Geburtstag, hielt Präsident Pieck in seinem Amtssitz in Berlin-Niederschönhausen einen Geburtstagsempfang ab. U.B.z.: Der Vorsitzende der sowjetischen Kontrollkommission Armeegeneral Tschuikow gratuliert dem Präsidenten. In der Mitte der politische Berater Botschafter Semjonow. Abgebildete Personen: Pieck, Wilhelm: Präsident, Politbüro der SED, Vorsitzender der KPD, DDR Semjonow, Wladimir: Hochkommissar in Deutschland, Botschafter in der DDR und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sowjetunion Tschuikow, Wassili Iwanowitsch: Marschall, Oberbefehlshaber der Streitkräfte in Deutschland, Chef der Kontrollkommission in der DDR, Vaterländischer Verdienstorden (VVO) in Gold 1960, Sowjetunion (GND 118666266)
context_page_description: Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was an 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, 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.
context_section_description: 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).
caption: Soviet Marshal Chuikov, USSR ambassador Vladimir Semyonov, and Wilhelm Pieck
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