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Encyclopedia > Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde

Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, also known as the Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten (the Memorial to the Socialists), is a cemetery that contains most of the graves of former East German (GDR) leaders including Walter Ulbricht who ordered the building of the Berlin Wall, and Wilhelm Pieck, the first President of the GDR. Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery or graveyard is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... Walter Ulbricht on a 1953 issue of TIME Walter Ulbricht (June 30, 1893–August 1, 1973) was a German communist politician. ... Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. ... Wilhelm Pieck (January 3, 1876 - September 7, 1960) was a German communist, politician and president of East Germany. ...


Also among those buried there are Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, co-founders of the Communist Party of Germany. Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. ... Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 - January 15, 1919, in Polish language Róża Luksemburg) was a Polish and German Jewish Marxist politician, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. ... The Communist Party of Germany (in German, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands – KPD) was formed in December of 1918 from the Spartacist League, which originated as a small factional grouping within the Social Democratic Party (SPD) opposed to the First World War on the grounds that it was an imperialist war in...


See also: List of famous cemeteries This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ...


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  • Photos of Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. (http://www.berlinphotos.co.uk/socialgrave.htm)

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Article about "Erich Mielke" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (520 words)
Sentenced in October 1993 to six years, he was paroled after less than two, and in 1998 all legal action against him was ended on the grounds of his poor health.
Erich Mielke is buried in the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin.
But in a final snub reflecting how much he was despised by his fellow countrymen, his grave was kept out of the memorial where other famous communists were laid to rest.
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He was one of the most powerful – and most hated – men in East Germany, feared even by members of his own Stasi.Mielke died on May 22 2000 aged 92 in an Berlin nursing home.
He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin.
The Virtual Flowers feature has been turned off for this memorial because it was being continually misused.
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