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Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Conrad’s reign was spent in struggles against the Magyars and against the rebellious dukes, one of whom (Henry the Fowler of Saxony) succeeded him in 918 as Henry I, beginning a century of Saxon rule. Otto von Bismarck, who in 1862 took charge of Prussian policy, resolved on the course of creating a “Little Germany” (a Germany without Austria) under Prussian leadership. In 1946, politics there were brought under the control of the Communist-dominated Socialist Unity party (SED), led by Wilhelm Pieck, Otto Grotewohl, and Walter Ulbricht. www.bartleby.com /65/ge/Germany.html   (7504 words)

Political Activity Resumes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) A second group, headed by Otto Grotewohl, favored organization of a unified worker's party and had contacted the Communist KPD with this proposal. Regardless, on April 21,1946, the KPD and a renegade faction of the SPD led by Otto Grotewohl merged in the Soviet Zone to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). The SPD expelled Grotewohl and his followers and was permitted to continue as an independent party in Berlin. www.bonus.com /contour/Truman_Kids/http@@/www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/POLITICA.HTM   (872 words)

The Uprising of June 17, 1953   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Otto Grotewohl, the Prime Minister, revealed that by February a majority of the Politburo already realized that drastic steps were needed to increase production. Now, in addition to the demand for lower norms, there were chants of "Free Elections" and "W are not slaves." In the square in front of the House of Ministries in the Leipzigerstrasse the crowd stopped and demanded to talk to the Government. Otto Grotewohl said, a month later, that 300,000 strikers had been involved in 272 towns. mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/38uprising.html   (5192 words)

The East German communists and the origins of the Berlin blockade crisis The memorandum, a copy of which was directed to Grotewohl's attention, outlined the steps for rebuilding 36 Soviet cities as a central component of two successive five-year planning cycles. The unity congress elected Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl as co-chairmen of the new organization, but Grotewohl and his colleagues soon found out that power did not rest equally with the two former parties. Fechner and Grotewohl were now virtual captives of their German Communist counterparts as well as prisoners of Communist ideology. www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/penna.htm   (7143 words)

Germany Info: Government & Politics The next day, the Neues Deutschland article was passed from hand to hand among the workers at the biggest building sites in East Berlin, the new hospital in the Friedrichshain district and the Stalinallee, which was intended to be East Berlin’s most prestigious promenade. On Tuesday, June 16, the workers decided to send a delegation to the government to learn about what was happening with the work norms and to present a letter to Otto Grotewohl, president of the Council of Ministers, demanding a meeting and threatening to strike if the politburo refused to revoke the increase in quotas. Otto Grotewohl and Walter Ulbricht announced that it had been wrong to raise the work quotas by administrative order and that instead this should be done “on the basis of persuasion and voluntary cooperation.” But it was too late. www.germany-info.org /relaunch/politics/new/pol_17_june_details.html   (754 words)

AllRefer.com - Germany : History : East Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia Wilhelm Pieck became the country's first president and Otto Grotewohl its first prime minister, with Walter Ulbricht as first deputy prime minister. The government was controlled by the SED and was much more centralized than that of West Germany. Grotewohl died in 1964 and was succeeded as prime minister by Willi Stoph, who had served as de facto prime minister since the onset (1960) of Grotewohl's terminal illness. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Germany-history-east-germany.html   (1047 words)

Scum on Silver Bicycles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) It was just like old times when the appointment of the 77-year-old Wilhelm Pieck as president and Otto Grotewohl as prime minister was celebrated with a torchlight procession through the Brandenburg Gate and up the Linden. Ulbricht and Grotewohl stayed out of sight behind barred windows and doors, but three minor ministers were sent out to talk to the crowd. When Grotewohl announced later that the new norms had been cancelled, it was not enough. mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/berlin/lectures/24ScumonBicycles.html   (4244 words)

Part II, p780 By the end of the year, a provisional legislature was formed and Wilhelm Pieck was named president of the republic. The first government was headed by Otto Grotewohl (SED) and involved a coalition of all the parties in the National Front. Grotewohl continued as prime minister throughout our period, always heading a coalition government composed of all the original parties of the National Front, dominated by the SED. www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1980/Book/PART2/6-EasternEurope/63-EastGermany/EastGermany.htm   (610 words)

East Germany The workers demanded to speak to Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl. The country must be unified by secret, general and free elections and a workers’ victory must be won in these elections. ‘The worker ended his speech by stating that Selbmann’s attitude proved that he is incapable of granting the workers’ demands and that if Grotewohl and Ulbricht refused to face the workers, a general strike would be called in all Berlin to support these demands. www.johndclare.net /cold_war_east_germany_1953.htm   (961 words)

Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Addressing the Prime Minister of the GDR, Otto Grotewohl, the bishops warn of the country's looming disintegration: "Look at the desperate situation that threatens to end in a catastrophe of the greatest dimensions! At the beginning of June 1953, the new leaders summon SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht, Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl, and Central Committee Secretary Fred Oelßner to Moscow. Otto Grotewohl took poison, Walter Ulbricht committed suicide. www.hdg.de /Final/eng/page1670.htm   (1098 words)

Articles - List of Germans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Otto of Greece King of Bavaria (1815-1867), King of the Hellenes (1833-1862) Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, (1806-1886), mineralogist, geologist Nikolaus Otto, (1832-1891), coinventor of the Otto cycle www.gaple.com /articles/List_of_Germans   (1432 words)

Pankow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Since the 1950s the name of East Berlin's mansion quarter is closely connected to prominent politicians of the former GDR like Otto Grotewohl and Walter Ulbricht who lived here next door to famous artists, writers and scientists; Carl von Ossietzky, Hanns Eisler, Arnold Zweig, Stephan Hermlin and Christa Wolf did resp. Castle Niederschönhausen, where Queen Christine (wife of Friedrich the Great) was literally bored to death and where the Nazis deposited "decadent art" rose to the office of GDR-president Pieck and to a national guest house which accommodated Fidel Castro and Michail Gorbachov. For one hundred years, the Erich Weinert Colony is used by artists as room for living and working while literature devotees are rather to be found in the Majakowskiring where the "Literature Workshop" (Literaturwerkstatt) has taken over Otto Grotewohl's former mansion. berlin1.btm.de /english/berlin-infos/e_bi_bezirk-pankow.html   (218 words)

Germany - Political Parties and Democratization On June 11, the Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands--KPD) was reestablished in the Soviet zone under a German leadership that, for the most part, had lived for years in Moscow. Shortly thereafter, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands--SPD) was also reconstituted, under the leadership of Otto Grotewohl. When it became obvious that the SPD would emerge as the most popular leftist party in the Soviet zone, the Soviet authorities forced the merger of the KPD and the SPD in April 1946 and subsequently, from this merger, the formation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands--SED). countrystudies.us /germany/46.htm   (1031 words)

FSU new issues - USSR - 1965 - 1st Death Anniversary of Otto Grotewohl. FSU new issues - USSR - 1965 - 1st Death Anniversary of Otto Grotewohl. Portrait of German communist leader Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964). This page is a part of the FSU New Issues Catalogue, maintained by the Worldwide Society of Russian Philately home.nestor.minsk.by /fsunews/ussr/1965/su3074.html   (54 words)

The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Western Leaders Fight Proposal To Make Berlin 'Neutral' City; McElroy Hints Larger ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The West Berliners, heartened by such outside support, defied grim Red hints of trouble when Moscow's six-month period for accepting the neutral city proposal expires. Communist East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl welcomed the Soviet plan, as a great concession to the West. Grotewohl, in a statement, reminded West Berliners that his regime is not backing off on its claim that all Berlin belongs to East Germany. www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=148657   (308 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Otto Grotewohl und die Einheitspartei: Dokumente (Studientexte, Dokumentationen, Berichte zur ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Amazon.com: Books: Otto Grotewohl und die Einheitspartei: Dokumente (Studientexte, Dokumentationen, Berichte zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Berlins und Brandenburgs) This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. Otto Grotewohl und die Einheitspartei: Dokumente (Studientexte, Dokumentationen, Berichte zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Berlins und Brandenburgs) (Unknown Binding) www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/389542062X?v=glance   (213 words)

Germany: History .) As a result of their difficult dual role as emperors and German kings, and especially because of their interests in Italy, Otto's successors could not prevent the German dukes and their vassals from increasing their power at the expense of the central authority. In 1946, politics there were brought under the control of the Communist-dominated Socialist Unity party (SED), led by Wilhelm Pieck, Otto Grotewohl, and Walter Grotewohl died in 1964 and was succeeded as prime minister by Willi www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0858401.html   (5986 words)

Former East German Premier Willi Stoph dead at 84: 4/20/99 He became East Germany's first defense minister in 1956 and was known as the architect of the East German People's Army. Stoph moved up in East Germany's Politburo hierarchy to become premier in 1970, succeeding Otto Grotewohl. He met the same year with then-West German Chancellor Willy Brandt for talks to ease relations between the communist East and capitalist West. www.s-t.com /daily/04-99/04-20-99/c03wn067.htm   (343 words)

Khrushchev Vists East Germany (1957) Nikita Sergejevich and Anatoli Ivanovitsch walk alongside the first secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Walter Ulbricht, and the president of the German Democratic Republic, Otto Grotewohl. It filled the rooms of the Berlin City Hall, where the first secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Walter Ulbricht, and the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR, Otto Grotewohl, held a reception in honor of the party and government delegation from the USSR. Its melodies sounded in each conversation of the Soviet guests with representatives of the government, the parliament, the National Front of Democratic Germany, the parties and mass organizations, and with outstanding workers, farmers, scientists and artists. www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/zwang.htm   (3864 words)

H-Net Review: Filip Bloem on Resistance with the People: Repression and Resistance in ... By focusing exclusively on the supposedly democratic nature of anti-Communist resistance, Bruce misses some of the nuances and ambiguities of its leading proponents. Initially, Grotewohl and Nuschke fought desperately for the independence of their parties, but eventually they gave in to Communist pressure. One can argue, of course, that they had no real choice open to them, but both of them went on to have long political careers in the GDR--Grotewohl even became Prime Minister. www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=83261075902762   (1248 words)

Former East German Olympic Judge Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) But to whom was Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl to turn? Luckily for everybody, Grotewohl found his man in the person of Klaus Jaegerschreck, known throughout the world as the Founding Father of the East German Olympic Judges. Jaegerschreck would use his tremendous energies and talents to mold the Olympic Judges of East Germany into one of the elite corps of the world. www.sff.net /people/pitman/egjudge.htm   (2009 words)

Documents on Germany under Occupation, 1945-1954 - Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) - †extracts from the Policy Declaration of Otto Grotewohl, Minister President of the German Democratic Republic - †letter from the Minister President of the German Democratic Republic, Otto Grotewohl, to the Chairman of the Council Of Ministers of the Ussr, J. Stalin, Asking for a Reduction In Reparations - Letter from the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of The Ussr, J. Stalin, to the Minister President of the German Democratic Republic, Otto Grotewohl, Reducing Reparations www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=3754847   (3395 words)

[No title] In a selection of individual "Eyewitnesses" from the years 1954 and 1956, one can see amongst other things: In a selection of individual "Eyewitnesses" from the years 1957 and 1959, one can see amongst other things: 32 from 4/17/1959: Grotewohl on Adenauer, Professor Hagemann on Unity, Youth Celebration www.umass.edu /defa/films/augenzeuge50er.shtml   (480 words)

DDR / GDR / RDA Souvenirs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Geschenk der Delhi Printers' Association an Otto Grotewohl Gift from the Delhi Printers' Associations to Otto Grotewohl Cadeau de la Delhi Printers' Association à Otto Grotewohl www.dhm.de /ausstellungen/souvenirs/so001423.htm   (26 words)

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