What is Wilhelm Pieck?
[[File:Fotothek df roe-neg 0002793 004 Portrait Wilhelm Piecks im Publikum der Bachfeier.jpg|150px|thumb|Wilhelm Pieck in 1950]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-09139-020, Berlin, 75. Geburtstag Wilhelm Piecks.jpg|thumb|Soviet Marshal [[Vasily Chuikov|Chuikov]], USSR ambassador [[Vladimir Semyonov]], and Wilhelm Pieck]] '''Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck''' (3 January 1876 in eastern [[Gubin|Guben]] (today [[Poland]]) - 7 September 1960 in [[Berlin]]) was an [[East Germany|(East)]] [[Germany|German]] [[Communism|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 [[German Democratic Republic|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 (institution)|Reichstag]] from 1928 to 1933, both on behalf of the [[Communist Party of Germany]] (KPD). {{SED-leaders}} {{DDR-Presidents}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pieck, Wilhelm}} [[Category:1876 births]] [[Category:1960 deaths]] [[Category:German atheists]] [[Category:Members of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)]] [[Category:Members of the Volkskammer]] [[Category:People from former German territories]] [[Category:Presidents of East Germany]]