Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ernst Paul Ulbrichtwas a German Communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germanyand laterin the early development and establishment of East Germany. As the first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 June 1893
CountryGermany
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.
Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
Nobody intends to put up a wall!
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.