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Personalities

Personalities of the Labour Movement, Issued on January 13, 1976.

Wilhelm Pieck (1876–1960) – German communist politician who served as the first and only President of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), from 1949 until his death.
Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944) – Leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), imprisoned by the Nazis in 1933 and executed at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.
Rudolf Breitscheid (1874–1944) – German Social Democratic politician and prominent opponent of Nazism who died at Buchenwald concentration camp.
Wilhelm Koenen (1886–1963) – German communist politician and longtime member of the KPD who later became an important political figure in the DDR.
Georg Schumann (1886–1945) – German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime who was executed in Dresden in 1945.

Personalities of the Labour Movement, issued on October 18, 1977.

August Frölich (1877–1966) – German trade unionist and socialist politician who later held senior political positions in the DDR.
Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – German communist politician and an important early leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Otto Buchwitz (1879–1964) – German Social Democratic and later SED politician, trade unionist, and opponent of the Nazi regime.

Personalities of the Labour Movement, issued on March 24, 1987.

Clara Zetkin (1857–1933) – German Marxist politician and prominent advocate for women's rights, closely associated with the establishment of International Women's Day.
Fritz Gietzelt (1907–1968) – German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime who later held political positions in the DDR.
Walter Vesper (1897–1978) – German communist politician, diplomat, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter who later served the DDR in senior diplomatic posts.
Robert Siewert (1887–1973) – German communist politician and resistance fighter who survived imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp and later became a politician in the DDR.

Personalities, issued on May 5, 1987.

Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) – German Romantic poet, philologist, and politician, particularly renowned for his ballads and lyrical poetry.
Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) – German writer and pacifist best known for his anti-war novels, particularly The Case of Sergeant Grischa.
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946) – German playwright and novelist, a leading figure of literary Naturalism who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Gustav Hertz (1887–1975) – German physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck for experiments confirming the quantized energy states of atoms.