Wilhelm Pieck
Former President of the German Democratic RepublicWikipedia
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Sep 4, 2026
Richard FidlerHOST
Tell me about the town you grew up in, Katja, in East Germany.
Katja HoyerGUEST
Yeah, so I was born in, in a town called, uh, Wilhelm-Pieck Stadt Guben at the time, so it was named after the first and, and only president that GDR had ever had because he was also born in that town.
Katja HoyerGUEST
Um, and it's right on the Polish border.
Katja HoyerGUEST
It's one of those towns and cities that were divided by the new German borders after the Second World War, so there was a Polish part on the other side, um, and I was born on the, on the East German side.