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.
Ernst Goldenbaum was a German politician who served as the chairman of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany from 1948 to 1982.
Kurt Seibt was chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and East Germany's Minister for Direction and Control of Regional and District Councils.
Bernhard Quandt was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Waldemar Verner was chief of the People's Navy (Volksmarine) of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic and brother of Paul Verner.
Gustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky was a German Communist politician. He was a prominent politician of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the German Democratic Republic.
Ernst Achenbach was a German lawyer,diplomat and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP),who served as a member of the Bundestag (1957–1976),as a Member of the European Parliament (1964–1977),as Vice Chairman of FDP (1971–1972) and as Vice President of the Liberal group in the European Parliament.
Friedrich Middelhauve was a German publisher and a politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1947 until 1956 he served as FDP state chairman for North Rhine-Westphalia and,between 1952 and 1956,he was the party's deputy federal chairman. From July 1954 until February 1956,he was Deputy Minister-president and Minister of Economics and Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia. He also served as a member of the state and federal legislatures. On the right-wing of the party,he tried unsuccessfully to steer the FDP into a united bloc with smaller conservative parties in an effort dubbed the "National Collective".
Ilse Thiele was an East German politician. She was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the country's ruling SED (party) between 1954 and 1989. She served as the Chair of the national Democratic Women's League from 1953 till 1989.
Gustav Siemon was a German politician. At a national level he was a member of the East German National legislature (Volkskammer). Regionally,he led the National Democratic Party (NPDP) in Mecklenburg.
Franz Dahlem was a German politician. Dahlem was a leading official of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and,after 1945,of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Herta Geffke was a German activist and politician who resisted Nazism. After 1945 she became a member of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED in the Soviet occupation zone,identified as a "true Stalinist" and feared on account of her interrogation methods.
Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt was a German physician. For nearly forty years she was the medical director at the East German Government Hospital. In connection with this,for forty years she was a member of the National legislature,representing not a political party but the Democratic Women's League. Although her medical abilities were evidently well attested,the length of her tenure at the hospital and the number of national honours that she accumulated over the years indicate that she was also highly prized by the authorities for her discretion and "political reliability".
Ernst Wulf was an East German farmer and political activist who served as chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association,a mass organization within the National Front,from 1964 to 1979.
Werner Laux was a German painter,university teacher and arts official. He was something of a party stalwart:between 1952 and 1956 he served as rector (head) of the Arts Academy at Berlin-Weissensee.
Ilse Rodenberg was a Hamburg typist who became an actress and,later,an influential East German theatre director. She combined this with a political career,sitting as a member of the East German parliament for four decades between 1950 and 1990. She was a member not of the ruling SED (party) but of the National Democratic Party of Germany,one of the smaller Block Parties which contributed a semblance of pluralism to the country's political structure.
Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Selbmann was a German Communist politician and writer who served as a member of the national parliament (Reichstag) during 1932/33.
Elli Paula Schmidt was a German communist political activist with links to Moscow,where as a young woman she spent most of the war years. She returned in 1945 to what later became the German Democratic Republic where she pursued a successful political career till her fall from grace:that came as part of a wider clear out of peoples critical of the national leadership in the aftermath of the 1953 uprising. She was formally rehabilitated on 29 July 1956,but never returned to mainstream politics.
Katharina "Käthe" Kern became a German anti-government activist during the Hitler years. After 1945 she quickly emerged as a senior politician and party loyalist in the Soviet occupation zone. She served between 1946 and 1985 as a member of what became the powerful Party Central Committee. A long-standing leading figure in the Ministry for the Health Service),she also served,between 1949 and 1970,as head of the national "Mother and Child department".
Martha Israel was a German clerk and politician of Sorbian ethnicity. She served in the Volkskammer of East Germany from 1963 until 1967 as a member of the Socialist Unity Party and the Democratic Women's League of Germany. Prior to this,she was also a member of the Spremberg city council,and was the secretary of the local branch of the Domowina.
