Walter Ulbricht

Walter Ulbricht

출생 : 1893-06-30, Leipzig, Germany

사망 : 1973-08-01

약력

Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (30 June 1893 – 1 August 1973) was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later (after spending the years of Nazi rule in exile in France and the Soviet Union) in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic in East Germany. As the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960 on, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973. As the firm leader of the strongest and most important Soviet satellite, Ulbricht had a degree of bargaining power with the Kremlin that he used effectively. For example he demanded the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 when the Kremlin was reluctant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Ulbricht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Walter Ulbricht

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Stasi, un État contre son peuple
Stasi, un État contre son peuple
Self (archive footage)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
Tunnel to Freedom
Tunnel to Freedom
Self (archive footage)
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.
위대한 작별
위대한 작별
Self (archive footage)
1924년부터 1953년까지 소비에트 연방 최고 권력자로 군림한 스탈린은 ‘위대한 지도자’로 불리며 제2차 세계대전을 승리로 이끌었지만, ‘조지아의 인간 백정’이라는 별명을 얻을 정도로 무자비한 숙청을 단행한 두 얼굴을 가진 지도자다. 스탈린의 장례식을 담은 이 보기 드문 다큐멘터리는 1953년 3월 5일 스탈린이 세상을 떠나면서 시작된다. 흑백과 컬러를 넘나드는 당시의 자료 화면들은 소비에트 국민의 슬픔과 국장(國葬)의 모습을 2시간이 넘는 러닝타임 동안 내레이션도 없이 담담하게 보여준다.
Die Sekretäre
Die Sekretäre
Self (archival footage)
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR, of course without ever getting out of being a satellite state to the big brother in Moscow. The film looks for the caesura and crucial points in the power game between Ulbricht and Honecker.
DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953
DDR: Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953
Self
"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political problems. While the standard of living of the population in the western part of Germany steadily increased, it stagnated in the GDR . A one-sided, industry-oriented reconstruction policy, coupled with rapid militarization, weighed on the country's economy, which was already under pressure from Soviet reparations demands. A majority of the population did not identify with the socialist system, which accordingly stood on shaky ground.
Builder of socialism Walter Ulbricht
Builder of socialism Walter Ulbricht
Self
After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
Self
Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.