Walcher, Jacob

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German trade unionist and politician (SPD, KPD, SAPD, SED)
Willy Brandt’s political mentor in the 1930s.

1887 born
1918/19 Co-founder of the KPD (Communist Party of Germany)
1933-1946 Exile, director of the SAPD foreign headquarters in Paris
1942-1946 Exile in New York
1947-1951 Editor-in-chief of the trade union organ “Tribüne” in the SBZ/GDR
1952 Expulsion from the SED
1956 Rehabilitation and readmission to the SED
1970 died

Index of References

Biography

Resistance fighter in Norwegian exile 1933-1939

1933: 11 March, 31 Aug, 2-9 Sept, Oct-Nov
1935: 20 March, 18 May
1936: May-June, Aug
1937: Jan
1939: May

Democratic Socialist and Journalist in Sweden 1940-1946

1940: March, Sept
1941: Feb
1944: Oct
1946: April

Politics

Private Life

Partnership with Gertrud Meyer

Sources/Documents and Objects

Postcard from Willy Brandt to Jacob Walcher, 20 April 1937

Travels

1927-1940

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