What Do You Know About Walter Ulbricht?

Walter Ulbricht was a leading communist leader. He was also the head of East Germany from the year 1960 to 1973. The leader was born on 30th June of 1893 in Leipzig. Walter was attached to the German Communist Party. After the First World War the Ulbricht was nominated to the party's central committee in the year 1923. Before the Nazi takeover he was employed to lead the party in Berlin from the year of 1929 to 1933. He also victimized Trotskyites and other deviationists as an agent of Comintern.

Walter came back to Soviet occupied Germany in the year 1945. He formed the SED or Soviet Unity Party in East Germany, and was nominated as the general secretary in  1950 and stayed in that post till 1971. Walter was the deputy premier of  East Germany from the year 1949 to 1960. Later he was elected as the chairman of its council of state from the year of 1960 and stayed in that post till the end of 1973.

The Berlin Wall was made under his supervision in the year 1961. Walter had exercised total rigidity in the time of developing the country's industrial power. When the Soviet Union or Soviet Russia took the tactic of new relations with West German, Walter was forced to take retirement from the post of the secretary of SED, in the year of 1971.

Walter Ulbricht  died on 1st August of 1973 in East Berlin as the head of state.