People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer The chancellor who made provisional statehood durable
- Andreas Hermes Andreas Hermes Weimar finance minister who founded the CDU in the Soviet zone in 1945 and was deposed for opposing the land reform
- Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser Christian Democrat who led the CDU in the Soviet zone until SMAD removed him, then became West Germany’s minister for all-German affairs
- Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
- Kurt Schumacher Kurt Schumacher SPD leader who survived ten years in Nazi camps and, after the war, refused the merger with the Communists
- Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Erhard The West German economic statesman who shaped currency reform and the social market economy
- Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953
- Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
- Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
- Helmut Josef Michael Kohl Helmut Kohl The chancellor who seized the initiative on the German question with a ten-point unification plan days before Malta