Walter Ulbricht

Walter Ulbricht

male, deceased (1973)
Walter Ulbricht (June 30, 1893 - August 1, 1973) was a German communist statesman. As First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to...
Otto Grotewohl

Otto Grotewohl

male, deceased (1964)
Otto Grotewohl (March 11, 1894 - September 21 1964) was an East German politician. Grotewohl was born in Braunschweig. A leader of the Social...
Hans Modrow

Hans Modrow

male, 81 years old
Hans Modrow (born January 27, 1928) is a German politician, best known as the last communist premier of East Germany. He currently is the honorary...
Gregor Gysi

Gregor Gysi

male, 61 years old
Gregor Gysi (born January 16, 1948) is a German politician of the Left Party. He was a key figure in the end of East German communist rule in 1989,...
Horst Sindermann

Horst Sindermann

male, deceased (1990)
Horst Sindermann (September 5, 1915 - April 20, 1990) was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (GDR) from 1973 to 1976. Born in...
Robert Havemann

Robert Havemann

male, deceased (1982)
Robert Havemann was a chemist, communist and an East German dissident. He studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933, and then later...
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf

female, 80 years old
Christa Wolf, born March 18, 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, then in Germany but now in Poland, as Christa Ihlenfeld, is one of the best-known...

Günter Schabowski

male, 80 years old
Günter Schabowski was an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the ruling party during most of the existence of the German D...
Wolfgang Harich

Wolfgang Harich

male, deceased (1995)
Wolfgang Harich (3 December 1923 - 21 March 1995) was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany. A deserter in World War II and a member of the...
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski

Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski

male, 77 years old
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski (born July 3, 1932) was a politician and trader in the German Democratic Republic. He was the...