Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da haka, wasu tsoffin membobin SPD sun rike manyan mukamai a gwamnatin Gabashin Jamus. Otto Grotewohl ya yi aiki a matsayin firaministan Jamus ta Gabas na farko daga 1949 zuwa 1964. A mafi yawan wannan lokacin ya ci gaba da hangen nesa na hagu na 'yan gurguzu na' yan gurguzu, kuma a bainar jama'a ya ba da shawarar karamin matsin lamba ga mulki a lokacin da aka murkushe tashin hankalin Jamus ta Gabas na 1953
Ka yi haƙuri. Friedrich Ebert, Jr., ɗan tsohon shugaban Ebert, ya yi aiki a matsayin magajin garin Gabashin Berlin daga 1949 zuwa 1967; an ba da rahoton cewa an yi masa barazana don tallafawa haɗin gwiwa ta hanyar amfani da rawar da mahaifinsa ya taka a cikin rarrabuwa na 1918 a kansa.