from the SED, and classified as an enemy of the people. Death and legacy Wilhelm Zaisser spent his final years working as a translator and at the Institute of Marxism and Leninism. He died in obscurity in East Berlin in 1958. Only after the 1989 Peaceful Revolution and German Reunification in 1990, was Zaisser formally rehabilitated. His Party membership posthumously was also restored by the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor party to the SED, in 1993. See also Rudolf Herrnstadt Heinrich Rau Anton Ackermann Ruhr Uprising International Brigades International Brigades order of battle References Notes Footnotes 1893 births 1958 deaths Cold War spymasters Collaborators with the Soviet Union Communist Party of Germany politicians Communist Party of the Soviet Union members German Army personnel of World War I German people of the Spanish Civil War German spies for the Soviet Union Government ministers of East Germany GRU officers Independent Social Democratic Party politicians International Brigades personnel Members of the Provisional Volkskammer Members of the 1st Volkskammer Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany People from Gelsenkirchen People from the Province of Westphalia Perpetrators of political repression in the Second Spanish Republic Stasi officers