Pieck, Wilhelm

*		1876
†		1960

Beruf
German politician

Überblick

	1895-1917 member of SPD
	1915-1917 soldier in World War I
	1917 desertion; member of the Spartacus League; 1918 exile in Holland 1918 co-founder of the KPD
	1919-1946 member of the central committee of the KPD
	1921-1928, 1932/33 delegate to the Prussian state diet
	1928-1933 member of the Reichstag
	1928-1932 member of the executive committee of Comintern
	1933-1945 exile in France and the USSR
	1935 chairman of the KPD in exile
	1945 chairman of the KPD of the Soviet Occupation Zone ("SBZ")
	1946-1954 chairman, with Otto Grotewohl, of the SED
	1949-1960 State President of the GDR