Wilhelm Pieck

Chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck 3 January 1876 Guben, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire

7 September 1960(1960-09-07) (84) East Berlin, East Germany (now Berlin, Germany)

22 April 1946 – 25 July 1950Serving with Otto Grotewohl

German Communist politician Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (German pronunciation: ; 3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German communist politician who served as the chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1960.