Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck 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.
Claudia Crawford is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),who became the youngest cabinet minister in German history whilst in office from 1994–98 and was Federal Minister for family,seniors,women and youth affairs and,by virtue of this office,presided over the European Union Council of Ministers. Nolte is a Catholic and is active in the Catholic community. She is married to investigative journalist David Crawford of CORRECT!V. With her marriage in July 2008,she took the name of her husband.
Werner Gustav Schulz was a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. Trained in food technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin,he worked as a research assistant. He was an activist for peace ecology and human rights in several oppositional groups from the 1970s. He lost his university job in 1980 when he protested against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. In the Peaceful Revolution,he was in 1989 a founding member of the New Forum,representing the group at the Round Table. He was elected to the first freely elected Volkskammer. After German reunification,he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2005,and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs is a German political scientist who has written extensively on the Stasi and related aspects of the German Democratic Republic's history.
Rolf Schwanitz is a German politician. From 1998 till 2005,he served under Federal Chancellor Schröder as a Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery. He was then,from 2005 till 2009,Parliamentary State Secretary in the Health ministry under Federal Chancellor Merkel.
Ehrhart Neubert is a retired German Evangelical minister and theologian.
Irene Ellenberger is a German architect who grew up in East Germany and who in 1990 became a politician (SDP/SPD).
Ursula Ragwitz is a former senior official of the ruling East German Socialist Unity Party. She started her career as a primary school teacher,and rose to become a member of the powerful Party Central Committee between 1981 and 1989,undertaking various leadership roles in respect of the country's highly politicised culture sector.
Katharine "Ketty" Guttmann was a German communist politician and campaigner for prostitutes' rights.
Christa Schmidt is a retired German politician (CDU). She served as a minister in the last government of East Germany. She had built an earlier career as a teacher and educationalist.
Petra Bläss is a German politician. She served in the German parliament (Bundestag) between 1990 and 2002,and was a Bundestag vice-president between 1998 and 2002.
Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig is a German Manager ("Betriebswirt"),Full jurist ("Volljurist"),Labour law judge and Senior Public Administrator ("Ministerialdirigent"). Since December 2011 he has served as the Independent Commission for Dealing with Sexual Abuse of Children.
Maria Wiedmaier was a German political activist (KPD) who engaged in anti-fascist resistance during the twelve Nazi years. She spent most of that time in a succession of state detention institutions,ending the war as a survivor from the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Angelika Barbe is a German biologist who became a politician.
Agnes Schmidt was a German activist and politician who served as a member of the Parliament ("Landtag") of Thuringia.
Bertram Wieczorek is a German physician and former politician (CDU).
Ute Vogt is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021. Since 2021,she has been serving as president of the German Life Saving Association (DLRG).
Gabriele Schöttler is a former East German nurse who switched to political activism,joining the Social Democratic Party during the final weeks of 1989,and then successfully switching to mainstream politics following reunification the next year. In the course of a varied political career she served between 1999 and 2001 as the Berlin senator for labour,social affairs and women under Mayors Diepgen and Wowereit.
Eleonore Staimer was a German Communist Party activist and official. After 1945 she undertook work for the KPD and SED Party,later becoming an East German diplomat. She served as her country's first Ambassador to Yugoslavia between 1966 and 1969.
Hildigund Neubert is the daughter of an East German Pastor-Theologian who became a professional musician. As the pressures for change in the one-party dictatorship intensified,thanks both to the bankruptcy of the state and to the winds of Glasnost blowing across from,of all places,Moscow,she found herself drawn by circumstances into politics. At the time of East Germany's "peaceful revolution" she was in East Berlin,a permanent presence at the control centre of Demokratischer Aufbruch. A feature of those months was the dispersed character of the uprisings that destroyed the dictatorship:it is misleading to think in terms of any sort of central "guiding hand" controlling developments. Nevertheless,DA was one of a number of movements and organisations that became key to focusing the energies of hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy campaigners and demonstrators,in ways that led,in March 1990,to the only free and fair parliamentary election in the history of the "German Democratic Republic" and thereafter,more indirectly,to reunification in October 1990.
