Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery is a cemetery in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It was the cemetery used for many of Berlin's Socialists, Communists, and anti-fascist fighters.
Speech at the 1951 Memorial to the Socialists commemorating Rosa Luxemburg, with Honecker, Mielke, Krenz and other high-ranking GDR leaders, January 1989
A memorial to the fallen Spartacists, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1926; after 1935 destroyed by the Third Reich. On the left: Ernst Thälmann
Central garden roundel with porphyry stele and inner circle of 10 graves
Red marble tablet recording the names of 327 men and women who died fighting Fascism between 1933 and 1945
Walter Ulbricht
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Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician and revolutionary. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany and later in the early devel
Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
…following the Second World War caused the cemetery to be within the borders of East Berlin, where it was used to bury East German (GDR) leaders, such as Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck, the first President of the GDR. In 2006 a monument to the victims of Stalinism was erected…
Ulbricht in 1960
Ulbricht, age 14, at the beginning of his joinery apprenticeship
Ulbricht's official Reichstag portrait, 1930
Ulbricht (standing in the background) speaking at a debate between himself and Joseph Goebbels in the Friedrichshain. Goebbels is visible on the left in the foreground. The debate ended in a massive brawl between Nazis and the KPD.