8mm – East Germany – Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands 20th anniversary – Leipzig – 1966
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April 1966 during the Leipziger Messe:
00:02 DDR flag & Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall)
& SED propaganda street sign “20 Jahre wirtschaftlicher Fortschritt”
(20 years of economic progress)
00:42 Leipzig’s Old Town Hall
00:57 SED propaganda street sign “Wir danken den Gründern unserer Partei aufrichtig für ihre historische Leistung”
(We sincerely thank the founders of our party for their historic achievement.)
01:29 flag…
01:36 DDR propaganda street sign “Frieden der Welt”
00:02 Neues Rathaus
The foundation stone of Leipzig’s new town hall was laid on 18 October 1899. After almost six years of construction, the building was inaugurated on 7 October 1905 in the presence of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony.
The damage caused by World War II was repaired until 1949.
Leipzig’s New Town Hall is built in the historicist style. Along with the Stadthaus, which covers 10,000 m² and contains 600 rooms, it is one of the largest town halls and is the largest municipal building in the German Empire and currently in Germany (wiki 2025).
00:17 SED propaganda street sign “20 Jahre wirtschaftlicher Fortschritt”
00:42 Altes Rathaus
Leipzig’s Old Town Hall, which dominates the eastern side of the fairgrounds, is considered one of the most important secular buildings in Renaissance Germany.
00:57 SED propaganda street sign “Wir danken den Gründern unserer Partei aufrichtig für ihre historische Leistung”
appear on left: Wilhelm Pieck
Wilhelm Pieck, born January 3, 1876 in Guben and died September 7, 1960 in East Berlin, was a German statesman.
A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1895, he helped found the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919, becoming one of its leading figures, and then leading it from 1934.
From 1931 to 1943, he was a leading member of the Communist International.
After the end of the war, he and Otto Grotewohl helped unite the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, forming the Socialist Unity Party (SED), which they jointly led until 1950.
In 1949, he became President of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and remained so until his death.
in the middle: Otto Grotewohl
Otto Grotewohl, born March 11, 1894 in Brunswick and died September 21, 1964 in East Berlin[1], was a German statesman, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), then from 1946 of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He was President of the Council of Ministers of the GDR from 1949 to 1964.
on the right: Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht, born June 30, 1893, in Leipzig and died August 1, 1973, in Groß Dölln, north of Berlin, was a German statesman.
From 1963, Ulbricht initiated a reorganization of the SED, on the Khrushchev model, now structured according to a “production principle”.
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