Editing Walter Ulbricht (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F0309-0201-001, Berlin, Empfang DDR-Frauen bei Ulbricht.jpg|thumb|235px|Ulbricht (right), wife [[Lotte Ulbricht|Lotte]], and [[Willi Stoph]] in 1967]]
Ulbricht lived in [[Majakowskiring]], [[Pankow]], East Berlin. He married twice: in 1920 to Martha Schmellinsky and from 1953 until his death to [[Lotte Ulbricht]] ''née'' Kühn (1903–2002). Ulbricht and Schmelinsky had a daughter in 1920, who grew up and lived separated from Ulbricht for almost her entire life. After the failure of this first marriage, he was in a relationship with Rosa Michel (born Marie Wacziarg, 1901–1990). With Michel, Ulbricht had another daughter, Rose (1931–1995).

His marriage with Lotte Kühn, his partner for most of his life (they had been together since 1935), remained childless. The couple adopted a daughter whom they named [[Beate Ulbricht|Beate]]. She was born in 1944 to a Ukrainian [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced laborer]] in Leipzig. Although Beate Ulbricht remembered her father warmly, she referred to her mother in an extensive interview given to a tabloid in 1991 as "the hag", adding that she was "cold-hearted and egoistic". She also said that Walter Ulbricht was ordered to marry Lotte by Stalin.<ref name="burnett">{{cite book |last1=Burnett |first1=Simon |title=Ghost Strasse: Germany's East Trapped Between Past and Present |date=2007 |publisher=Black Rose Books |location=Montreal |isbn=978-1551642918 |page=7}}</ref>