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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Democratic Socialist and Journalist in Sweden 1940-1946

SPD Politician in divided Berlin 1947-1956

Governing Mayor and Candidate for Chancellor 1957-1966

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