Editing Walter Ulbricht
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During the German Revolution of 1918, Ulbricht became a member of the soldier's soviet of his army corps. In 1919, he joined the Spartakusbund and became one of the founding members of the KPD. | During the German Revolution of 1918, Ulbricht became a member of the soldier's soviet of his army corps. In 1919, he joined the Spartakusbund and became one of the founding members of the KPD. | ||
After the war he entered the | After the war he entered the new Communist Party of Germany (KPD). A bureaucrat and organizer, he was elected to the party’s central committee in 1923. With the rise of [[Joseph Stalin]], He became instrumental in Bolshevizing the German party and organizing it on a cell basis. He became a member of the Reichstag (parliament) in 1928 and led the Berlin party organization from 1929. After the accession of [[Adolf Hitler]] to power in Germany (January 1933), He fled abroad, serving for the next five years as an agent of both the KPD and the Comintern in Paris and Moscow and in Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), all the time relentlessly persecuting Trotskyites and other deviationists. | ||
Back in Moscow at the start of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union (1941), He was assigned to propagandize German prisoners of war and process information from the German army. Returning to Germany on April 30<sup>th</sup>, 1945, He helped reestablish the KPD and was charged with organizing an administration in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. He played a leading role in the merger of the KPD and the SPD into the Socialist Unity Party (SED; April 1946), which controlled East Germany until 1989. On the formation of the German Democratic Republic (October 11<sup>th</sup>, 1949), He became deputy prime minister, adding the post of general secretary of the SED in 1950. | Back in Moscow at the start of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union (1941), He was assigned to propagandize German prisoners of war and process information from the German army. Returning to Germany on April 30<sup>th</sup>, 1945, He helped reestablish the KPD and was charged with organizing an administration in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. He played a leading role in the merger of the KPD and the SPD into the Socialist Unity Party (SED; April 1946), which controlled East Germany until 1989. On the formation of the German Democratic Republic (October 11<sup>th</sup>, 1949), He became deputy prime minister, adding the post of general secretary of the SED in 1950. | ||