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Wilhelm Pieck was born on the 3rd of January, 1876 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a German politician and the first president of East Germany from 1949 to 1960. Pieck was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1899 to 1917, and then of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1918 until his death in 1960.