Schumacher, Kurt

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German politician (SPD)
First SPD chairman after 1945

1895 born
1930-1933 Member of the Reichstag
1933-1945 Incarceration in various prisons and concentration camps
1945 political representative of the SPD in the Western Zones
1946-1952 SPD chairman
1949-1952 Member of the Bundestag and chairman of the SPD Bundestag fraction
1952 died

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Biography
Democratic Socialist and Journalist in Sweden 1940-1946 1946: 26 Feb, May	SPD Politician in divided Berlin 1947-1956 1947: July, 23 Dec 1948: Jan 1950: 21-25 May 1951: March, 18 April, 19 Dec 1952: 24-28 Sept
Governing Mayor and Candidate for Chancellor 1957-1966 1964: 23-27 Nov

Politics

Sources/Videos

Willy Brandt remembers the rivalry between Adenauer and Schumacher in 1949

Travels

1945-1956

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