What is Walter Ulbricht?
{{Infobox President | name = '''Walter Ulbricht''' | image = Opvolger van Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Bestanddeelnr 911-5926 (cropped).jpg | caption = Walter Ulbricht in 1960 just 7 year’s after Stalin died in 1953 | nationality = German | order = [[Leadership of East Germany|General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] | term_start = 25 July 1950 | term_end = 3 May 1971 | predecessor = Post jointly held by [[Wilhelm Pieck]] and [[Otto Grotewohl]] | successor = [[Erich Honecker]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1893|6|30}} | birth_place = [[Leipzig]], [[Kingdom of Saxony]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1973|8|1|1893|6|30}} | death_place = Groß Dölln, [[Templin]], [[East Germany]] | spouse = Martha Schmellinsky <small>(1920 -?)</small> <br> [[Lotte Ulbricht|Lotte Kühn]] <small>(1953-1973)</small> | party = [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] (1912-1917)<br> [[Independent Social Democratic Party|USPD]] (1917-1920)<br>[[Communist Party of Germany|KPD]] (1920-1946)<br>[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|SED]] (1946-1973) | profession = [[Politician]] | order2 = [[Leadership of East Germany|Chairman of the State Council of the <br> German Democratic Republic]] | term_start2 = 12 September 1960 | term_end2 = 1 August 1973 | predecessor2 = [[Wilhelm Pieck]] <br> <small> As State President </small> | successor2 = [[Willi Stoph]] }} '''Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht''' (30 June 1893{{spaced ndash}}1 August 1973) was a [[Germans|German]] [[communist]] politician. He was appointed leader of [[East Germany]] aka the [[German Democratic Republic]] in 1950 by [[Joseph Stalin]] and was leader until 1971 just 18 years after [[Stalin|Stalin’s]] death in 1953. Walter Ulbricht worked for [[Joseph Stalin]] (leader 1924-1953),[[Nikita Khrushchev]]