A list of notable politicians of the defunct German Democratic Party:

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Friedrich Baltrusch Georg Friedrich Baltrusch (7 March 1876 in Waldhof, East Prussia (German Empire) – 22 April 1949 in Bad Wildungen, West Germany), was a german military officer and a political for the German Democratic Party/ CDU. One of the leaders of the Jun ...

* Marie Baum * Gertrud Bäumer *

Adolf Bauser Adolf Bauser (11 December 1880 – 16 November 1948) was a German teacher, member of the Reichstag for the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation and delegate for the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of Württemberg-Baden. Baus ...

Ludwig Bergsträsser Ludwig Bergsträsser (23 February 1883, Altkirch, Alsace-Lorraine – 23 March 1960, Darmstadt) was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party. See also *List of Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians A list of ...

* Andreas Blunck *

Friedrich Burmeister Friedrich Burmeister (1890–1969) was a German geophysicist. He was director of the Munich University’s Geomagnetic Observatory. Burmeister studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich under Hugo von Seeliger and Arnold So ...

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* Julius Curtius

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Thomas Dehler Thomas Dehler (14 December 1897 – 21 July 1967) was a German politician. He was the Federal Republic of Germany's first List of German justice ministers, Minister of Justice (1949–1953) and chairman of Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free De ...

* Berthold Deimling *

Bernhard Dernburg Bernhard Dernburg (17 July 1865 – 14 October 1937) was a German liberal politician and banker. He served as the secretary for Colonial Affairs and head of the Imperial Colonial Office from May 1907 to 9 June 1910, and as the minister of Finance ...

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Richard Freudenberg Richard Nikolaus Freudenberg (born August 31, 1998) is a former German professional basketball player. Standing 6'9" (2.06 m) tall, he played at the small forward position. Playing career Early years at Bayern Munich Freudenberg is a produc ...

* Ferdinand Friedensburg

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Hellmut von Gerlach Hellmut Georg von Gerlach (2 February 1866 – 1 August 1935) was a German journalist and politician. Life Hellmut von Gerlach, the son of landowner Max von Gerlach, was born in Mönchmotschelnitz in Silesia. He studied law at the universiti ...

* Otto Gessler * Eberhard Gothein

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Willy Hellpach Willy Hugo Hellpach (26 February 1877 in Oels, Silesia – 6 July 1955 in Heidelberg) was the sixth State President of Baden. He was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). He was also a physician and psychologist. Early life and educati ...

* Theodor Heuss *

Elly Heuss-Knapp Elisabeth Eleonore Anna Justine Heuss-Knapp (''née'' Knapp; 25 January 1881 – 19 July 1952) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss. She was the founde ...

* Karl Hoffmann *

Hermann Höpker-Aschoff Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (31 January 1883 – 15 January 1954) Brockhaus Geschichte Second Edition was a German politician, finance minister, a member of Parlamentarischer Rat and a jurist. He was the first President of the Federal Constitutional ...

Erhard Hübener Dr. Erhard Hübener (4 August 1881 – 3 June 1958) was a Weimar Republic, German politician and member of the german Democratic Party, German Democratic Party (DDP) until 1933. After World War II he engaged in rebuilding structures of self-r ...

Hermann Hummel Hermann Hummel (22 June 1876 – 13 September 1952) was a German chemist and politician in the Republic of Baden. He was a member of the DDP. Early life and career Hummel was born in Lahr in the Grand Duchy of Baden. He studied astronomy, c ...

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* Harry Kessler *

Wilhelm Kobelt Wilhelm Kobelt (20 February 1840 – 26 March 1916) was a German zoologist born in Alsfeld, Grand Duchy of Hesse. He specialized in the field of malacology. Kobelt is remembered for his work as curator of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am ...

* Waldemar Koch * Erich Koch-Weser *

Wilhelm Külz Wilhelm Külz (18 February 1875 – 10 April 1948) was a German liberal politician of the National Liberal Party, the German Democratic Party (DDP) and later the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). He held public office both in the Germ ...

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Ludwig Landmann Ludwig Landmann (18 May 1868 – 5 March 1945) was a liberal German politician of the Weimar Republic. Landmann belonged first to the National Social party, then the Progressive People's Party, and finally, after the German revolution of 1918, ...

* Helene Lange *

Theodor Liesching Theodor Gottfried Liesching (14 August 1865 – 25 July 1922) was a German jurist and politician. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Böblingen. Liesching served as the final Minister President of the Kingdom of Wüttemberg in 1918. Life He was ...

Arthur Lieutenant Arthur Lieutenant (9 September 1884 – 10 October 1968) was a German Liberal politician. His political career peaked and crashed in the late 1940s when he found himself on the losing side as the newly established German Democratic Republic rev ...

Marie Elisabeth Lüders Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tro ...

Erich Lüth Erich Lüth (born 1 February 1902 in Hamburg, died 1 April 1989) was a German writer and film director. Career Lüth began his career in 1923 as an intern in the editorial staff of the Hamburger Ullstein Verlag Berlin his education. Subsequently, ...

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Hermann Maas Hermann Ludwig Maas (; 5 August 1877 – 27 September 1970) was a Protestant minister, a doctor of theology and named one of the ''Righteous Among the Nations'',Yad Vashem: "Hermann Maas"' a title given by the Israeli organization for study an ...

Artur Mahraun Artur Mahraun (30 December 1890 – 29 March 1950) was the founder and leader of the Young German Order (''Jungdeutscher Orden'' or Jungdo) and an early contender for the leadership of the far right youth in Weimar Germany. Born the son of a priv ...

* Reinhold Maier * Friedrich Meinecke *

Friedrich Middelhauve Friedrich Middelhauve (17 November 1896 – 14 July 1966) was a German publisher and a politician of the Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1947 until 1956 he served as FDP state chairman for North Rhine-Westphali ...

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* Friedrich Naumann *

Otto Nuschke Otto Nuschke (23 February 1883 – 27 December 1957) was a German politician. Nuschke was born in Frohburg in the Kingdom of Saxony. In 1910 he was elected General Secretary of the liberal Progressive People's Party (''Fortschrittliche Volk ...

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Rudolf Oeser Rudolf Oeser (13 November 1858 – 3 June 1926) was a German journalist and liberal politician. From 1922 to 1924 he was a member of several governments of the Weimar Republic, serving as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Transport. Early ...

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Rudolf Paul Dr. Rudolf Paul (30 July 1893 in Gera - 28 February 1978) was a German politician. He studied law in Berlin and Leipzig and practiced as a lawyer in Gera. He was a member of the German Democratic Party until its dissolution in 1933. Under the Nazi ...

Friedrich von Payer Friedrich Ludwig von Payer (12 June 1847 – 14 July 1931) was a Germans, German lawyer, Liberalism, liberal politician and the vice-chancellor of German Empire during the last year of World War I. He was born in Tübingen and was educated at the ...

Carl Wilhelm Petersen Carl Wilhelm Petersen (born 1 January 1868 in Hamburg; died 6 November 1933 in Hamburg) was a German lawyer, politician for the German Democratic Party (German abbr.: DDP) and First Mayor of Hamburg (1924 – 29 and 1932 – 33). Peterse ...

* Hugo Preuß

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Ludwig Quidde Ludwig Quidde (; 23 March 1858, Free City of Bremen – 4 March 1941) was a German politician and pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different era ...

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* Fritz Raschig * Walther Rathenau * Paul Rohrbach

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* Hjalmar Schacht * Eugen Schiffer *

Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (7 July 1889, Giessen – 2 March 1992, Berlin) was an East Germany, East German politician of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany who gained some measure of importance in her nation. References

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* Walther Schreiber *

Walther Schücking Walther Adrian Schücking (6 January 1875, Münster, Westphalia – 25 August 1935) was a German liberal politician, professor of public international law and the first German judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague. ...

Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz Gerhart may refer to: As a given name * Gerhart Baum (born 1932), German politician and former Federal Minister of the Interior * Gerhart Eisler (1897-1968), German communist politician * Gerhart Friedlander (1916–2009), nuclear chemist who wor ...

Ernst Siehr Ernst Siehr (5 October 1869, Heinrichswalde, East Prussia – 14 November 1945, Bergen auf Rügen) was a German lawyer and politician. He served in the imperial Reichstag from 1912 to 1918 as a member of the Progressive People's Party. He rep ...

Gustav Stolper Gustav Stolper (25 July 1888 – 27 December 1947) was an Austrian-German economist, economics journalist and politician. Life and work Stolper was born into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Poland to Austria. In 1913 he established '' ...

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* Ernst Troeltsch

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Georg Voigt Georg Voigt was a German historian who was born in 1827 in Königsberg in East Prussia. He died in Leipzig in 1891. Voigt was the son of the historian Johannes Voigt. Voigt belonged to the founders of modern research into the Italian Renaissance ...

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* Alfred Weber * Marianne Weber *

Max Weber Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas profo ...

* Bernhard Weiß *

Eberhard Wildermuth Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth (23 October 1890 – 9 March 1952) was a German politician and a member of the FDP/DVP. From 1949 until his death he was the Federal Minister for Housing under Konrad Adenauer. During World War II Wildermuth was a h ...

* Frieda Wunderlich {{Lists of German politicians by party German Democratic Party