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List Of Independent Social Democratic Party Politicians
A list of notable politicians of the defunct Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany: A * Karl Aderhold *Lore Agnes * Marie Ahlers *Martha Arendsee * Karl Artelt *Rosa Aschenbrenner * Siegfried Aufhäuser * Elise Augustat B * Maria Backenecker * Bernhard Bästlein *Johannes R. Becher *Eduard Bernstein *Rudolf Breitscheid * Hermann Brill *Hans Brodmerkel * James Broh *Albert Buchmann C *Arthur Crispien D *Franz Dahlem *Ernst Däumig * Wilhelm Dittmann E * Hugo Eberlein * Emil Eichhorn * Kurt Eisner * August Enderle F *Alfred Faust *Max Fechner *Josef Felder *Hermann Fleissner * Wilhelm Florin *Paul Franken * Walter Freitag *Philipp Fries G *Herta Geffke * Anna Geyer * Ernst Goldenbaum *Arthur Goldstein * Hugo Gräf *Gregor A. Gregorius * Otto Grotewohl *Karl Grünberg *Anton Grylewicz * Ketty Guttmann H * Hugo Haase *Georg Ulrich Handke * Fritz Heckert *Alfred Henke *Carl Herz * Rudolf Hilferding * Max Hoelz * Adolf Hofer * Oskar Hoffmann *Martin Hoop J *Mathilde Jaco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Social Democratic Party Of Germany
The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, USPD) was a short-lived political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The organization was established in 1917 as the result of a split of anti-war members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), from the left of the party as well as the centre and the right. The organization attempted to chart a course between electorally oriented reformism on the one hand and Bolshevist revolutionism on the other. The organization was terminated in 1931 through merger with the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). Organizational history Formation On 21 December 1915, several SPD members in the Reichstag, the German parliament, voted against the authorization of further credits to finance World War I, an incident that emphasized existing tensions between the party's leadership and the pacifists surrounding Hugo Haase and ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Buchmann
Albert Buchmann (28 October 1894 – 17 May 1975) was a German politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was Reichstag deputy of the party from 1924 to 1933. Life Buchmann was born in 1894 in Pirmasens. From 1914 to 1918 he served as a soldier in the First World War. After the end of the war, in 1919 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 1920 he moved to Munich, where in 1921 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KDP). In 1922 he became president of the Shoe Workers' Union. From 1923 Buchmann was head of the KPD in Munich. In October 1923 he was imprisoned. In the years 1925 to 1932 he was political director of the Southern Bavaria district. From 1932 he held the same position in the district of Württemberg. From 1924 to 1932 he belonged to the constituency Upper Bavaria-Swabia. In May 1933, Buchmann was arrested and accused of high treason. In 1936 he was sent to Dachau concentration camp and Ludwigsburg prison. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Florin
Wilhelm Florin (16 March 1894 – 5 July 1944) was a German Communist Party (KPD) politician and a campaigner in opposition to National Socialism. Life Early years Wilhelm Florin was born in Poll, already a suburb of Cologne, across the river and to the south-east of the city centre. His family was working class and strongly Catholic; early on he became involved with the Catholic Young Men's Association. He qualified as a riveter and worked in several metal based factories making items such as wagons and boilers. By 1913 he was also a member both of the German Metal Workers' Union and of the Socialist Youth Organisation. War In 1914 he was drafted into the infantry. During the war he was wounded and, for a period in 1917, sent to join a punishment unit. This was because he became opposed to the war and in 1917 joined the newly formed Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD / ''Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands''), which had broken away ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Fleissner
Hermann Fleissner (16 June 1865, Dresden – 20 April 1939, Berlin) was a German Social Democratic politician. Before the First World War After the Volksschule, Fleissner undertook an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He worked as a journeyman until 1895 and then for a short time as an independent carpenter in Pirna. In 1884, Fleissner joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and in 1895 he became a member of the Woodworkers' Association. From 1885 to 1898 he was chairman of the local SPD in Pirna. From 1897 Fleissner was employed as a reporter for various Social Democratic newspapers and was later editor of the '. From 1913 to 1917, Fleissner was a member of the central party committee of the SPD and chairman of the Dresden party organisation. He belonged to the left wing of the party before the war. Between 1900 and 1903, Fleissner was alderman in Löbtau and 1905-1909 city councillor in Dresden. From 1909 to 1920 he was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Felder
Josef Felder (24 August 1900 – 28 October 2000) was a German politician. He was one of the 94 Social Democratic members of the Reichstag who voted against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 The Enabling Act (German: ') of 1933, officially titled ' (), was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the powers to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar Presi .... He was also the last to die of the 94 who voted against this act. He participated in the famous '' The Nazis: A Warning From History'' television series which was produced and broadcast by the BBC. His sections during the series included his experience as a prisoner of Nazi's political opponents in Dachau, where he himself was sent. References 1900 births 2000 deaths German centenarians Men centenarians Politicians from Augsburg People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Fechner
Max Fechner (27 July 1892 – 13 September 1973) was a German politician who served as Minister of Justice of East Germany from 1949 to 1953 Life and career Fechner was born in Berlin and was a trained tool maker. He joined the SPD in 1910, was a member of the USPD from 1917 to 1922, and then returned to the SPD. He was a district councilor for the Neukölln district of Berlin from 1921 to 1925, and member of the Landtag of Prussia from 1924 to 1933. He worked in the National Executive of the SPD and was the editor of the municipal policy magazine ''Die Gemeinde'' (''The Community''). Fechner participated in the social-democratic resistance group led by Franz Künstler, and was jailed in 1933–1934 and 1944–1945 by the Nazi regime. After the war, Fechner became a member of the SED, he was elected to its Executive Committee and Central Committee. Between 1946 and 1948, he was a city councilor for East Berlin, he was elected in 1949 to the German People's Council, in 1950 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Faust
Alfred Faust (15 December 1883, Soultzmatt – 14 June 1961, Bremen) was a German advertising executive, journalist, editor, and left-wing politician. Biography Born in Alsace (today part of France) in 1883, Faust was the son of a master plumber and winemaker. He had a business education, and an apprenticeship in printing, as well as attending a Catholic seminar in Belgium. In his youth he did military service, graduating as a Grenadier in Berlin, going on to teach French from 1905 on. From 1909 to 1914 Faust was a journalist, later working with advertisement for the company Café HAG, working in Bremen. Between 1914 and 1918, Faust was called into the Imperial German Army, and fought in the First World War. In 1917, before the war's end, he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), a left-wing split from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). When the war ended in 1918, he became heavily involved in radical politics, joining the December Reich C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Enderle
August Enderle (5 August 1887 – 2 November 1959) was a German socialist politician, trades unionist, journalist and author. Life Provenance and early years August Enderle was born into a cooper's/carpenter's family in Feldstetten, a small artisanal town in the hills between Stuttgart and Ulm. He trained and qualified for work in the metals based industry sector and took work as a machinist in Stuttgart. It was in Stuttgart that in 1910 he joined both the Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / SPD) and the Metal Workers' Union (''"Deutscher Metallarbeiter-Verband"'' / DMV). He was opposed to war but was conscripted into the military in 1915 and remained in the army till the war ended. The 1914 decision of the party leadership to implement what amounted to a parliamentary truce for the duration of the war set off acute disagreement within the party from the outset, and division only grew as slaughter on the frontline and austerity on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Eisner
Kurt Eisner (; 14 May 1867 21 February 1919)"Kurt Eisner – Encyclopædia Britannica" (biography), ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2006, Britannica.com webpageBritannica-KurtEisner. was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918, which led to his being described as "the symbol of the Bavarian revolution". He is used as an example of ''charismatic authority'' by Max Weber. Eisner subsequently proclaimed the People's State of Bavaria but was assassinated by far-right German nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley in Munich on 21 February 1919. Life and career Kurt Eisner was born in Berlin on 14 May 1867, to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both Jewish. Newspaper reports of his death identify him as being born in the Kingdom of Galicia. From 1892 to 1917 he was married to painter Elisabeth Hendrich with whom he had fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Eichhorn
Robert Emil Eichhorn (9 October 1863 – 26 July 1925) was a German politician, journalist and Chief of the Berlin Police during the 1918–1919 German Revolution. Eichhorn was born in Röhrsdorf near Chemnitz in October 1863 and became apprenticed as a glass worker in 1878, becoming active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He became a full-time official in 1893 and was the head of its press office from 1908–17, when he left with others to form the USPD where he played a similar role.Broue, P. (2006) ''The German Revolution 1917-1923'' Chicago: Haymarket pg.965 Eichorn worked for the post-revolutionary Russian Telegraph Agency in Berlin. On 9 November 1918 he led the occupation of police headquarters in Berlin, the infantry guarding the building surrendering their weapons without a struggle.Broue, P. (2006) ''The German Revolution 1917-1923'' Chicago: Haymarket pg.148 Inside the building Eichhorn took over the office of police chief and 600 political prisoners w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Eberlein
Max Albert Hugo Eberlein (4 May 1887 – 16 October 1941) was a German Communist politician. He took part of the founding congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Dec–Jan 1919), and then in the First Congress of the Comintern (2–6 March 1919), where he held important posts until 1928, the result of his involvement with the Conciliator faction.Hermann Weber''Hotel Lux - Die deutsche kommunistische Emigration in Moskau''(PDF) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung No. 443 (October 2006), p. 58. Retrieved November 12, 2011 DDR biographies. Retrieved July 18, 2011 When the took power in Germany in 1933, Eberlein fled to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Dittmann
Wilhelm Dittmann (1 November 1874, Eutin – 7 August 1954, Bonn), was a German Social Democratic politician. From 1917 to 1922, he was secretary to the Central Committee of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, USPD) was a short-lived political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The organization was establish ... (USPD). Wilhelm was the son of Josef and Auguste Dittmann. His father was a master wheelwright in Eutin. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dittmann, Wilhelm 1874 births 1954 deaths People from Eutin People from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Independent Social Democratic Party politicians Members of the Council of the People's Deputies Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
