Ideologies / State Socialist / Walter Ulbricht
§ The minds · 1893–1973 · East Germany · General Secretary
Walter Ulbricht
The planned republic
State socialism, walled in.
Economic−34
SocialistMarket
Governance+80
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−14
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The leader who built East Germany's nationalised, centrally planned economy behind the Berlin Wall — state socialism in its most regimented, security-state form.
social
Austere conformist orthodoxy.
economic
Built a fully nationalised, centrally planned East German economy.
governance
Hard one-party state; oversaw the Berlin Wall.
Notable for
- Built the GDR's planned economy
- Oversaw the Berlin Wall
- SED party leader
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