Ulbricht, Walter

*		1893
†		1973

Beruf
German politician

Überblick

	1912-1918 member of the SPD
	1919 member of the USPD and later the KPD
	1928-1933 KPD member of the Reichstag
	1933-45 Exile in Moscow, Prague, and Paris
	1936-1938 Political Commissar in the Spanish Civil War
	1943 co-founder of the National Committee for a Free Germany; leader of propaganda courses for German prisoners of war of the USSR, aimed at winning them for Communism
	1945 return to Germany with the troops of the Red Army; co-founder of the Federation of Free German Trade Unions (FDGB)
	1946 active in the founding of the Socialist Union Party of Germany (SED)
	1949-1960 Deputy Minister President of the DDR
	after 1950 General Secretary of the SED
	1953-1971 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED
	1960-1973 Chairman of the DDR State Council