WFriedrich Dickel was a German politician, who served as the interior minister of East Germany for nearly twenty-six years.
WKurt Hager was an East German statesman, a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany who was known as the chief ideologist of the party and decided many cultural and educational policies in the German Democratic Republic.
WMartin Hoop was a district leader in the Communist Party of Germany in Saxony and a supporter of the Weimar Republic presidential candidate Ernst Thälmann.
WRichard Hüttig was a prewar German Communist who was put to death, apparently more for his political convictions than for any crime he committed.
WGustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky was a German Communist politician. He was a prominent politician of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the German Democratic Republic.
WWilly Leow was a German communist politician and activist.
WErnst Johannes Fritz Thälmann was a German communist politician, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933.
WJosef Wenig was a German labour and political activist (KPD). After 1945 he became an important figure in the East German political establishment. He was a member of the ruling party's powerful Central Committee between 1954 and his death in 1981. He was also a member of the country's National Parliament ("Volkskammer") between 1950 and 1981.