Ulbricht Group

The Ulbricht Group was a secret political administration composed of exiled members of the Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, or KPD) and the National Committee for a Free Germany (German: Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland, or NKFD), led by German politician Walter Ulbricht, who flew from the Soviet Union back to Allied-occupied Germany on April 30, 1945. Composed of functionaries from the KPD and ten anti-fascist German prisoners of war, their job was to seek out anti-fascist individuals and prepare the groundwork for the re-establishment of communist organizations and unions in post-war Berlin. There were two additional regional groups, the Ackermann Group in Saxony and the Sobottka Group in Mecklenburg. The Ulbricht Group was instrumental in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic (German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or GDR), and many of the Group's members later became high-level officials in the country's government.

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