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Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht , 1893-1973, Communist leader in the German Democratic Republic. A founder of the German Communist party, he fled Germany in 1933 and went to Moscow, where he was a member of the politburo of the exiled German Communist party. Ulbricht entered Germany with the Russian troops in 1945.... Read more
Erich Honecker Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker , 1912-94, East German political leader. From a Communist family, Honecker was imprisoned by the Nazis for 10 years for party activities. After the war he joined Walter Ulbricht's Socialist Unity (Communist) party and rose in the East German party bureaucracy. He joined the... Read more
Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt , 1830-1902, American painter of Western scenery, b. Germany. After traveling and sketching throughout the mountains of Europe, he returned to the United States. He then journeyed (1859) to the West with a trail-making expedition. His immense canvases of the Rocky Mts. and the... Read more
Rostock Rostock
Rostock or Rostock-Warnemünde , city (1994 pop. 237,307), Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, NE Germany, on the Baltic Sea. It is an industrial center and a major seaport, with petroleum tank installations and shipyards, as well as fish-processing and shipbuilding industries. Manufactures include... Read more
Berlin Wall Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall 1961-89, a barrier first erected in Aug., 1961, by the East German government along the border between East and West Berlin, and later along the entire border between East Germany and West Germany. At first constructed of barbed wire, the wall was built to halt large numbers of... Read more
Hof Hof
Hof , city (1994 pop. 52,720), Bavaria, E central Germany, on the Saale River, near the Czech border. The city's industries produce textiles, beer, and machinery. Hof was first mentioned in the early 13th cent. and in 1373 passed to the Hohenzollern burgraviate of Nuremburg. It went to Bavaria in... Read more
Kerstin Meyer Kerstin Meyer
Meyer, Kerstin 1966–PersonalBorn 1966, in Wedel, Germany.AddressesHome—Hamburg, Germany. E-mail—post@kerstinmeyer.de.CareerIllustrator and children's author.IllustratorOscar Wilde, Das Gespenst von Canterville (translation of The Canterville Ghost), Dressler Cecilie (Germany), 1993.Bettina Violet,... Read more
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