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Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...
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Wolfgang Abendroth Wolfgang Walter Arnulf Abendroth (2 May 1906 – 15 September 1985) was a socialist German jurist and political scientist. He was born in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Abendroth was an important contributor to the c ...
* Kurt Adams * Dieter Aderhold *
Lore Agnes Lore Agnes (4 June 1876, Bochum, Westphalia – 9 June 1953, Cologne) was a German politician. A house-wife from Düsseldorf, Agnes was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the socialist women's movement in th ...
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Johannes Agnoli Johannes Agnoli (22 February 1925 in Valle di Cadore, Eastern Dolomites – 4 May 2003 in San Quirico di Moriano near Lucca) was a German-Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label ''Marxist'', preferring instead - somewhat i ...
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Adis Ahmetovic Adis Ahmetovic ( bs, Ahmetović, ; born 27 July 1993) is a German politician of Bosnian people, Bosnian descent. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and a Member of the Bundestag. Biography Ahmetovic's parents are from Bo ...
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Lale Akgün Dr. Lale Akgün (born 17 September 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a German politician and member of the SPD. She served as an MP for Cologne II electoral district in the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2009. Life Lale Akgün's Turkish family m ...
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Heinrich Albertz Heinrich Albertz (22 January 1915 – 18 May 1993) was a German Protestant theologian, priest and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin) from 1966 to 1967. Life Heinrich Albertz was ...
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Luise Albertz Luise Albertz (22 June 1901 – 1 February 1979) was a German politician committed, throughout her life, to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was a member of the West German Bundestag (National Parliament) for two decades, until 1969. How ...
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Torsten Albig Torsten Albig (born 25 May 1963) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 2012 until 2017 he served as the 13th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein. Early life and education Albig grew up in Ostholstein and Bi ...
* Britta Altenkamp * Jakob Altmaier *
Gregor Amann Gregor Amann (born 15 August 1962 in Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD. Amann was from 2005 to 2009 a List of members of the 16th Bundestag, member of the 16th Bundes ...
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Niels Annen Niels Annen (born 6 April 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the coalition government of Ch ...
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Hans Apel Hans Eberhard Apel (25 February 1932 – 6 September 2011) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1972 to 1974 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Foreign Minister. From 1974 to 1978 he was th ...
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Bruno Apitz Bruno Apitz (28 April 1900 – 7 April 1979) was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Life and career Apitz was born in Leipzig, as the twelfth child of a washer woman. He attended school until he was fourteen, t ...
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Jan Appel Jan Appel (pseudonyms: ''Max Hempel'', ''Jan Arndt'', ''Jan Voß''; 22 August 1890, Mecklenburg4 May 1985, Maastricht) was a German revolutionary who participated in the German Revolution of 1918. He became a prominent Left Communist activist ...
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Max Archimowitz Max Archimowitz (26 February 1920 – 15 November 2000) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament ...
* Martha Arendsee *
Walter Arendt Walter Arendt (born 17 January 1925 in Heessen; died 7 March 2005 in Bornheim) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in variou ...
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Johannes Arlt Johannes Arlt (born 23 April 1984) is a German soldier and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections. Private life and education From 2019 to 2021 Arlt compl ...
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Ingrid Arndt-Brauer Ingrid Arndt-Brauer (born 20 March 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1999 until 2021. Early life and education After completing her ...
* Rainer Arnold *
Leo Arons Martin Leo Arons (15 February 1860 – 10 October 1919) was a German physicist and social democratic politician. He was the namesake of the ''Lex Arons'', a law which disallowed members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemo ...
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Karl Artelt Karl Artelt (31 December 1890 – 28 September 1981) was a German revolutionary and a leader of the sailors' revolt in Kiel. Birth and education Karl Artelt was born on 31 December 1890 in the German village of Salbke, at Repkowstr. 12, whic ...
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Rosa Aschenbrenner Rosa Aschenbrenner (born ''Rosa Lierl'': 27 April 1885 – 9 February 1967) was a German politician ( KPD / SPD). After the Second World War, she became increasingly marginalised from the political mainstream because of her opposition to rearma ...
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Jörg Asmussen Jörg Asmussen (born 31 October 1966) is a German economist and banker has been serving as Chief Executive Officer of the German Insurance Association (GDV) since 2020. Asmussen served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central B ...
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Siegfried Aufhäuser Siegfried Aufhäuser (1 May 1884 – 6 December 1969) was a German politician and union leader who was chairman of the white-collar General Federation of Free Employees (AfA-Bund) from 1921 until 1933. Aufhäuser joined the Independent Social Dem ...
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Till Backhaus Till Backhaus (born Neuhaus 13 March 1959) is a German politician. As the German Democratic Republic approached its end as a standalone state, Backhaus was one of those who in December 1989 (re-)founded the Social Democratic Party, more than ...
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Ernst Bader Ernst Bader (7 June 1914 in Stettin, Pomerania – 10 August 1999 in Norderstedt) was a German actor, composer and songwriter (lyricist) best known for his hit recordings " Tulips from Amsterdam" and "Milord". Actors who have performed song ...
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Egon Bahr Egon Karl-Heinz Bahr (; 18 March 1922 – 19 August 2015) was a German SPD politician. The former journalist was the creator of the ''Ostpolitik'' promoted by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, for whom he served as Secretary of State in ...
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Ernst Bahr Ernst Bahr (; born 11 June 1945 in Chlum) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was born in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War. Life and career After graduation in 1964 in Rheinberg Bahr ...
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Karl Baier Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...
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Hans Baluschek Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 – 28 September 1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer. Baluschek was a prominent representative of German Critical Realism, and as such he sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid fra ...
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Arnulf Baring Arnulf Martin Baring (8 May 1932 in Dresden – 2 March 2019 in Berlin) was a German lawyer, journalist, political scientist, contemporary historian and author. He was a member of the German-British Baring family of bankers. Life Arnulf Baring wa ...
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Doris Barnett Doris Barnett (born 22 May 1953) is a German politician and member of the SPD. She represented Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal from 1998 to 2005. she contested the same seat in 2009, 2013 and 2017, failing to win but being elected on the party list. ...
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Hans-Peter Bartels Hans-Peter Bartels (born 7 May 1961) is a German politician of the SPD who served as member of the Bundestag for Kiel. From 2015 until 2020, he was the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces. Political career Bartels has been a member of ...
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Karl Barth Karl Barth (; ; – ) was a Swiss Calvinist theologian. Barth is best known for his commentary '' The Epistle to the Romans'', his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship (except for a single phrase) of the Barmen Declara ...
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Klaus Barthel Klaus Barthel (born 28 December 1955 in Munich) is a German politician of the SPD who served as a member of the Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is d ...
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Kurt Barthel Kurt Barthel (1884–1969) is the father of the modern United States Naturism, nudist movement. Introduction He began the American League for Physical Culture in 1929 with an ad, first in the leading German nudist magazines published in Be ...
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Max Barthel Max Barthel (born 17 November 1893 in Loschwitz, Dresden — died 17 June 1975 in Waldbröl) was a German writer. A factory worker, Barthel was a member of the socialist youth movement; he was a World War I frontline soldier from 1914 to 1918. ...
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Sören Bartol Sören Bartol (born 4 September 1974) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building in the coalition governmen ...
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Bernhard Bästlein Bernhard Bästlein (; 3 December 1894 in Hamburg – 18 September 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel) was a German Communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. He was imprisoned very shortly after the Nazis seized power in 1933 and wa ...
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Fritz Bauer Fritz Bauer (16 July 1903 – 1 July 1968) was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He was instrumental in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann and played an essential role in beginning the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials ...
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Gustav Bauer Gustav Adolf Bauer (; 6 January 1870 – 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and the chancellor of Germany from June 1919 to March 1920. He served as head of government for nine months. Prior to becoming head of gover ...
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Andreas Bausewein Andreas Bausewein (born 5 May 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who serves as mayor of Erfurt. Political career In 1990 Bausewein joined the SPD. From 1995 to 2004 he was state chairman of the party's youth orga ...
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August Bebel Ferdinand August Bebel (22 February 1840 – 13 August 1913) was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1869, which in 1875 mer ...
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Karl Bechert Karl Richard Bechert (August 23, 1901 in Nuremberg, Middle Franconia – April 1, 1981 in Weilmünster-Möttau, Hesse) was a German theoretical physicist and political leader. As a scientist, he made contributions in atomic physics. Scientif ...
* Willi Becker * Uwe Beckmeyer * Walter Behrendt *
Klaus Uwe Benneter Klaus Uwe Benneter (born 1 March 1947) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD). Education and early life Benneter was born in Karlsruhe. After finishing High School in Karlsru ...
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Albert Berg Albert Berg (April 16, 1864 – March 5, 1945) was an American football player, coach, teacher, and an advocate, writer and editor on issues of concern to the deaf. Berg was rendered deaf as the result of a childhood bout of spinal meningitis. ...
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Ute Berg Ute Berg (born 24 July 1953 in Essen) is a German politician and member of the SPD. She graduated from the University of Göttingen in 1974 in Political Science. Since 2011 Berg has been the head of the economic analysis department for the city ...
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Christine Bergmann Christine Bergmann (born 7 September 1939) is a German politician ( SPD). She grew up in East Germany, embarking on a public political career only at the time of German reunification. During the final months of the German Democratic Republic s ...
* Karl Bergmann *
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 ...
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Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein (; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Bernstein had held close association to Karl Marx and Friedric ...
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Jens Beutel Jens Beutel (12 July 1946– 8 May 2019) was a German judge and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he served as Oberbürgermeister (mayor) of Mainz, the state capital of Rheinland-Pfalz, from 1997 to 2011. During his tenur ...
* Petra Bierwirth * Karin Binder * Rudolf Bindig * Lothar Binding *
Frieder Birzele Frieder Birzele (born 17 January 1940) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He is married and has two children. He studied jurisprudence in Tübingen and Berlin from 1960 till 1965.He served as member of the Landt ...
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Peter Blachstein Peter Blachstein (30 April 1911 – 4 October 1977) was a German journalist who became a politician. During the middle 1930s he spent time in the Oflag IV-A, Hohnstein Concentration Camp, but he was released and participated in the Spanish Civil ...
* Willi Bleicher * Joseph Bloch * Volker Blumentritt *
Christoph Blumhardt Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842–1919) was a German Lutheran theologian and one of the founders of Christian socialism in Germany and Switzerland. He was a well-known preacher. In 1899 he announced his support for socialism and joined the Soc ...
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Hans Böckler Hans Böckler (26 February 1875 – 16 February 1951) was a German politician and trade union leader. He was the most influential re-founder of the unions in post-war Germany and became the first president of the German Trade Union Confederation.R ...
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Arnold Bode Arnold Bode (23 December 1900 – 3 October 1977) was a German architect, painter, designer and curator. Arnold was born in Kassel, Germany. From 1928 to 1933, he worked as a painter and university lecturer in Berlin. However, when the Nazis ca ...
* Kurt Bodewig * Ibrahim Böhme *
Rolf Böhme Dr. Rolf Böhme (6 August 1934, Konstanz – 12 February 2019) was a German politician and mayor of the Southwest city of Freiburg for 20 years between 1982 and 2002. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Before becoming Mayor, ...
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Björn Böhning Björn Böhning (born 2 June 1978) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs under the leadership of minister Hubertus Heil from 2018 t ...
* Gustav Böhrnsen *
Jens Böhrnsen Jens Böhrnsen (born 12 June 1949) is a German politician of the SPD who served as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 2005 to 2015. From 1 November 2009 until 31 October 2010 he was President of the Bundesrat. As such, he was acti ...
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Clemens Bollen Clemens Bollen (born 12 February 1948 in Langholt, Leer) is a German politician and member of the SPD. Early life After graduating from secondary school in 1965, Bollen trained as an industrial clerk until 1968. He then worked as an employee ...
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Gerd Bollmann Gerd Friedrich Bollmann (September 28, 1947 in Wanne-Eickel, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia – September 17, 2017) was a German politician. A member of the SPD, Bollman served in the Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German f ...
* Julian Borchardt *
Holger Börner Holger Börner (7 February 1931, in Kassel – 2 August 2006, in Kassel) was a German politician of the SPD. He was the 4th Minister President of Hesse from 1976 until 1987. In this position, he served as the 38th President of the Bundesrat ...
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Hermann Böse Hermann Böse (May 4, 1870, Hemelingen – July 17, 1943, Bremen) was a German music teacher and conductor at the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium, which was named after him, as well as a communist activist. He was also conductor of the ultra left ...
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Heinrich Brandler Heinrich Brandler (3 July 1881 – 26 September 1967) was a German communist, trade unionist, politician, revolutionary activist, and political writer. Brandler is best remembered as the head of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the party ...
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Heinz Brandt Heinz Brandt (11 March 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German officer. During World War II he served as an aide to General Adolf Heusinger, the head of the operations unit of the General Staff. He may have inadvertently saved Adolf Hitler's life, ...
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Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...
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Willi Brase Willi Brase (born 10 October 1951 in Petershagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD. Willi Brase is married with two children and is a Protestant. Brase attended elementary sch ...
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Max Brauer Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (3 September 1887 – 2 February 1973) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the first elected First Mayor of Hamburg after World War II. Life In 1923, Brauer was mayor of the independe ...
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Lily Braun Lily Braun (2 July 1865 – 8 August 1916), born Amalie von Kretschmann, was a German feminist writer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Life She was born in Halberstadt, in the Prussian province of Saxony, the daught ...
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Otto Braun Otto Braun (28 January 1872 – 15 December 1955) was a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. From 1920 to 1932, with only two brief interruptions, Braun was Minister President of the Free State of ...
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Fred Breinersdorfer Fred Breinersdorfer (born 6 December 1946 in Mannheim) is a German screenwriter, producer and film director. Life Fred Breinersdorfer, born 1946 in Mannheim, Germany, studied law and sociology from the universities in Mainz and Tübingen and ...
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Rudolf Breitscheid Rudolf Breitscheid (2 November 1874 – 28 August 1944) was a German politician and leading member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. Once leader of the liberal Democratic Union, he joined the SPD in ...
* Sylvia Bretschneider * Hermann Breymann *
Hermann Brill Dr. Hermann Louis Brill (9 February 1895 – 22 June 1959) was a German resistance fighter, doctor of law and politician ( SPD). Biography Brill was born in the small town of Gräfenroda, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 9 February 1895 as the son o ...
* Bernhard Brinkmann * Rainer Brinkmann * Hans Brodmerkel * James Broh *
Erich Brost Erich Brost (29 October 1903 – 8 October 1995) was a German journalist and publisher. Biography Brost was born in Elbing, West Prussia to a Schichau-Werke shipyard worker and a tailor. In 1915 his family moved to Danzig (modern Gdańs ...
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Manfred Bruns Manfred Bruns (1934, Linz am Rhein – 22 October 2019) was a federal prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice of Germany The Federal Court of Justice (german: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) is the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdic ...
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Werner Bruschke Werner Bruschke (18 August 1898, Magdeburg, Province of Saxony – 17 February 1995, Halle (Saale)) was an East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt ( GDR) from 13 A ...
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Wilhelm Buck Johann Wilhelm Buck (12 November 1869 in Bautzen, Kingdom of Saxony – 2 December 1945 in Radebeul) was a German politician and representative of the Social Democratic Party and the splinter party, Old Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 5 ...
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Udo Bullmann Udo Bullmann (born 8 June 1956) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 1999. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), part of the Party of European Socialists. Personal li ...
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Edelgard Bulmahn Edelgard Bulmahn (born 4 March 1951) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2 ...
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Andreas von Bülow Andreas von Bülow (born 17 July 1937) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and writer. He was Minister for Research and Technology from 1980 to 1982. Von Bülow has authored books about intelligence agencies, including ' ...
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Heinz Buschkowsky Heinz Buschkowsky (born 31 July 1948) is a German Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) politician and former Mayor of the Neukölln borough of Berlin. Born in Berlin in the aftermath of the Second World War, Buschkowsky is the son of a lock ...


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Christian Carstensen Christian Carstensen (born 11 March 1973 in Hamburg) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district parliament (''Bezirksversammlung'') from 2001 to 2005. In 2005 he was elect ...
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Marion Caspers-Merk Marion Caspers-Merk (born 24 April 1955 in Mannheim) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She was a member of the Bundestag, representing Lörrach – Müllheim, and Parliamentary State Secretary at ...
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Wolfgang Clement Wolfgang Clement (7 July 194027 September 2020) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the 7th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 May 1998 to 22 October 2002 and Federal ...
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Max Cohen Maximilian "Max" Cohen was an American socialist politician of the early 20th century. Cohen held a series of important posts during the pivotal year of 1919, including Secretary of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party for Local Greater N ...
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Arthur Crispien Arthur Crispien (4 November 1875 – 29 November 1946) was a German Social Democratic politician. Biography Crispien was born in Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad, Russia) to August and Franziska Crispien. He worked as a house and stage pa ...
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Heinrich Cunow Heinrich Cunow (11 April 1862, in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 20 August 1936) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and a Marxist theorist. Cunow was originally against the First World War in 1914 but he changed his viewpoint. ...


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Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and a ...
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Peter Danckert Peter Wilhelm Danckert (8 July 1940 – 3 November 2022)Herta Däubler-Gmelin Herta Däubler-Gmelin (; born 12 August 1943) is a German lawyer, academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She served as Federal Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002, and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2009. She curre ...
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Robert Daum Robert A. Daum is the founding Director of Iona Pacific Inter-religious Centre and Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought at Vancouver School of Theology. Daum earned a PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Calif ...
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Ernst Däumig Ernst Friedrich Däumig (25 November 1868, Merseburg – 4 July 1922, Berlin) was a German politician and newspaper editor who became co-chairman of both the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and Communist Party of Germany (KP ...
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Eduard David Eduard Heinrich Rudolph David (11 June 1863 – 24 December 1930) was a German politician. He was an important figure in the history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and of the German political labour movement. After the German Re ...
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Franz Josef Degenhardt Franz Josef Degenhardt (3 December 193114 November 2011) was a German poet, satirist, novelist, and – first and foremost – a folksinger/songwriter ( Liedermacher) with decidedly left-wing politics. He was also a lawyer, bearing the academic d ...
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Bärbel Dieckmann Bärbel Dieckmann ( Pritz, born 26 March 1949) is a German politician who was elected mayor of Bonn in 1994 and was in office until 2009. She is the first woman and Social Democrat to become mayor of Bonn. Early life and education The daughter ...
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Georg Diederichs Georg Diederichs (2 September 1900 – 19 June 1983) was a German politician, a member of the SPD, who served as Minister President of Lower Saxony from 1961 to 1970. He was born at Northeim and died in Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ...
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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 S ...
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Klaus von Dohnanyi Klaus von Dohnanyi (born 23 June 1928) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as mayor of Hamburg between 1981 and 1988. Early life and career Dohnanyi was born in Hamburg, the son of Christine von Dohnanyi and ...
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Hilde Domin Hilde Domin (27 July 1912 – 22 February 2006) is the pseudonym of Hilde Palm (née Löwenstein), a German lyric poet and writer. She was among the most important German-language poets of her time. Biography Domin was born in 1909 in Cologne as ...
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Heinrich Drake Heinrich Drake (December 20, 1881 – June 12, 1970) was a German politician ( SPD). He was President of the Free State of Lippe from 1925 to 1933 and again from 1945 to 1947, until Lippe was incorporated into the new state of North Rhine-Wes ...
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Hanno Drechsler Hanno Drechsler (24 March 1931 – 4 January 2003) was the Lord Mayor of the City of Marburg, Germany between 1970 and 1992, and the instigator of its restoration after urban renewal; he was also an important Social Democratic politician and p ...
* Wilhelm Dreher *
Horst Dreier Horst Dreier (born 7 September 1954) is a German jurist and legal philosopher. He currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 2008 he was the initial candidate to replace Winfried Hassemer at the Federal Constitutional Court of Ger ...
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Malu Dreyer Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer (born 6 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as the 8th and current Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate since 13 January 2013. She is the first woman to hold th ...
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Garrelt Duin Garrelt Duin (born 2 April 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Education Duin was born in Leer, Lower Saxony. From 1987 to 1995 he studied law and Protestant theology at Bielefeld and Göttingen. In 1995 he com ...
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Käte Duncker Käte Duncker (born Paula Kathinka Döll; 23 May 1871 – 2 May 1953) was a German political and feminist activist who became a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and then the Communist Party of Germany. Life Provenance and ...


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Fritz Eberhard Fritz Eberhard (2 October 1896 – 30 March 1982) was a German journalist, anti-fascist and social democrat and fought in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was a member of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). After the war ...
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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 19 ...
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Friedrich Ebert Friedrich Ebert (; 4 February 187128 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first President of Germany (1919–1945), president of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. Eber ...
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Friedrich Ebert junior Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert Jr. (12 September 1894 – 4 December 1979) was a German politician and East German Communist official, the son of Germany's first president Friedrich Ebert. Ebert was originally a Social Democrat like his father before ...
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Michael Ebling Michael Ebling (born 27 January 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister of the Interior in the government of Minister-President Malu Dreyer of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2022. From 2012 to 20 ...
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Sebastian Edathy Sebastian Edathy (; born 5 September 1969 as ''Sebastian Edathiparambil'') is a former German politician. He is a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party and became the chairman of a key committee in January 2012 at the Parliament, whi ...
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Horst Ehmke Horst Paul August Ehmke (4 February 1927 – 12 March 2017) was a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Federal Minister of Justice (1969), Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Fe ...
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Hans Eichel Hans Eichel (born 24 December 1941) is a German politician ( SPD) and the co-founder of the G20, or "Group of Twenty", an international forum for the governments and central bank governors of twenty developed and developing nations to discuss ...
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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 apprenti ...
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Willi Eichler Willi Eichler (7 January 1896 – 17 October 1971) was a German journalist and politician with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Before 1945 Eichler was born in Berlin, the son of a postal worker. He attended Volksschule and then bec ...
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Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel (26 July 1921 – 18 July 2007) was a German journalist, politician and World War II Luftwaffe ace. Early life Einsiedel, a great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, was born in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg, as the you ...
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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 c ...
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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 smal ...
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Irmgard Enderle Irmgard Enderle (born Irmgard Rasch: 28 April 1895 – 20 September 1985) was a German politician, trade unionist and journalist. Life Early years Irmgard Rasch was born in Frankfurt am Main. Her father was a secondary school teacher, and she to ...
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Ludwig Engel Hans Ludwig Engel (1630–22 April 1674) was a Roman Catholic canon lawyer, best known as the author of ''Collegium Universi Juris Canonici''. Life Hans Ludwig Engel was born at Castle Wagrain, Austria. He became a Benedictine at Melk Abbey, 10 ...
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Klaus Ernst Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left. The certified political economist has served as a member of The Left in the Bundest ...
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Hermann Esser Hermann Esser (29 July 1900 – 7 February 1981) was an early member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). A journalist, Esser was the editor of the Nazi paper, ''Völkischer Beobachter'', a Propaganda Leader, and a Vice President of the Reichstag. In the ...
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Karin Evers-Meyer Karin Evers-Meyer (born 10 September 1949) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Political career A former journalist and author, Evers-Meyer was first elected member of the German Bundestag in the 2002 federal election ...
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Arthur Ewert Arthur Ernest Ewert (30 November 1890 – 3 July 1959) was a German communist political activist and functionary of the Communist International (Comintern). Ewert is best remembered as an official Comintern representative to the United States, C ...


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Felix Fechenbach Felix Fechenbach (28 January 1894 – 7 August 1933) was a German journalist, poet and political activist. He served as State-Secretary in the government of Kurt Eisner that overthrew the Bavarian Wittelsbach Monarchy. After its overthrow, he wor ...
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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 title ...
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Ludwig Fellermaier Ludwig Fellermaier (1930–1996) was a German politician. From 1968–1989 he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), representing Germany for the Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats ha ...
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Friedrich Kurt Fiedler ''Friedrich'' Kurt Fiedler (8 March 1894 – 11 November 1950) was a German graphic designer and a representative of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party. During the Weimar Republic he was acknowledged for his poster ...
* Rüdiger Fikentscher * Erwin Fischer *
Ottfried Fischer Ottfried Fischer (; born 7 November 1953) is a retired German actor and Kabarett artist best known for his role as Benno Berghammer in the popular German TV series '' Der Bulle von Tölz''. He is a supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germ ...
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Richard Fischer Richard Fischer (27 January 1917 – 1969) was an Austrian international footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, ...
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Ossip K. Flechtheim Ossip Kurt Flechtheim (March 5, 1909 – March 4, 1998) was a German jurist, political scientist, author, futurist, and a humanist. He is credited with coining of the term "Futurology". Early life Flechtheim was born in Nikolaev (then Russian Emp ...
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Knut Fleckenstein Knut Fleckenstein (born 20 December 1953) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Party of European Socialists. He was elec ...
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Katharina Focke Katharina Focke (8 October 1922 – 10 July 2016) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 1972 to 1976. Biography Focke st ...
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Ludwig Frank Ludwig Frank (23 May 1874 – 3 September 1914) was a German empire, German lawyer and politician (History of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD). He represented his party in the :de:Badische Ständeversammlung, Baden Ständeversammlung ...
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Paul Franken Paul Franken (27 June 1894 – Autumn 1944) was a German Socialist politician. Following Nazi seizure of power in January 1933, his party was banned and he fled. He lived in various countries before settling in the Soviet Union, where in 1936 ...
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Freimut Duve Freimut Duve (26 November 1936 – 3 March 2020) was a German journalist, writer, politician and human rights activist. From 1980 to 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the first OS ...
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Philipp Fries Philipp Fries (9 August 1882 – 7 December 1950) was a German politician (SPD, USPD, KPD). He sat as a member of the national parliament (''"Reichstag"'') between 1920 and 1924. Life Philipp Fries was born in Roggendorf (Mechernich), then a ...
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Paul Frölich Paul Frölich (7 August 1884 – 16 March 1953) was a German journalist and left-wing political activist and author, a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany and founder of the party's paper, ''Die Rote Fahne.'' A Communist Party deputy ...
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Heinz Fromm Heinz Fromm (born 10 July 1948 in Frieda) is a German civil servant, who served as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 2000 to 2012. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Biography Afte ...
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Eduard Fuchs Eduard Fuchs (31 January 1870, Göppingen – 26 January 1940, Paris) was a German Marxist scholar of culture and history, writer, art collector, and political activist. Early life Fuchs's father was a shopkeeper. Early in his life, the you ...
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Erich Fuchs Erich Fuchs (9 April 1902 – 25 July 1980) was an SS functionary who worked for the Action T4 mass-murder program, and for the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. Fuchs was charged with war crimes at the Bełżec Trial in 1963–64, for ...


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Fritz Gäbler Fritz Gäbler (12 January 1897 – 26 March 1974) was an East German communist politician. In 1932, he was a representative in the Thuringia state parliament. Gäbler was imprisoned for most of the Nazi era, having been one of the first prisone ...
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Sigmar Gabriel Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel (born 12 September 1959) is a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and the vice-chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018. He was Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germa ...
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Georg Gaßmann Georg Gaßmann (28 May 1910 in Marburg – 5 August 1987 in Marburg) was a German politician. As a member of the SPD, Gaßmann was the mayor of Marburg for nearly 20 years and a member of the Hessian Landtag in Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is ...
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Evelyne Gebhardt Evelyne Gebhardt (born 19 January 1954) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2022. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Party of European Socialists. Her m ...
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Herta Geffke Herta Geffke (married name, Herta Kaasch: 19 August 1893 – 29 December 1974) was a German activist and politician ( KPD, SED) who resisted Nazism. After 1945 she became a member of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED ( / ZPKK) in th ...
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Julius Gehl Julius Gehl (4 July 1869, Bromberg, Province of Posen – March 1945, Danzig) was a German social democratic politician. Gehl served as the Chairman of the West Prussian District League of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).Handbuch de ...
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Imanuel Geiss Imanuel Geiss (9 February 1931 – 20 February 2012) was a German historian. Life Imanuel Geiss was born in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest of the five children of a working-class family affected by the economic crisis. His unemployed fathe ...
* Heiko Gentzel * Volker Gerhardt * Florian Gerster * Anna Geyer *
Norbert Glante Norbert Glante (born 8 August 1952, in Caputh) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until 2014. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group. During his tim ...
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Gerhard Glogowski Gerhard Glogowski (born 11 February 1943) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Education Born in Hanover, Glogowski finished public school in Bonn and later completed an apprenticeship as toolmaker. In parallel, he atten ...
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Peter Glotz Peter Glotz (6 March 1939 – 25 August 2005) was a German social democratic politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party) and social scientist. Peter Glotz was born in Cheb, Czechoslovakia, to a German father and a Cz ...
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Arthur Goldstein Arthur Goldstein (18 March 1887 in Lipine, German Empire – 1943 in Auschwitz, German-occupied Poland) was a German Jewish journalist and communist politician. Life Goldstein joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1914, and ...
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Ivo Gönner Ivo Gönner (born 18 February 1952 in Laupheim) is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was Lord Mayor of Ulm from 1992 until 29 February 2016. His father was a pharmacist. He grew up in Laupheim, studied jurisprudence i ...
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Georg Gradnauer Georg Gradnauer (16 November 1866 – 18 November 1946) was a German newspaper editor and politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and the first elected Minister-President of Saxony following the end of the monarchy. Born in M ...
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Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...
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Helga Grebing Helga Grebing (1930–2017) was a German historian and university professor (Göttingen, Bochum). A focus of her work is on social history and, more specifically, on the history of the labour movement. Life Provenance and early years Grebi ...
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Monika Griefahn Monika Griefahn (born 3 October 1954) is a German politician and one of the co-founders of Greenpeace. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Griefahn was a member of the German Parliament (1998–2009), serving as an expert on ...
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Adolf Grimme Adolf Berthold Ludwig Grimme (31 December 1889 – 27 August 1963) was a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was Cultural Minister during the later years of the Weimar Republic and after World War II, during the ...
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Lissy Gröner Liselotte Carola Gröner (31 May 1954 – 9 September 2019) was a German politician and, from 1989 to 2009, was a Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group. She sat on the European ...
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Otto Grotewohl Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl (; 11 March 1894 – 21 September 1964) was a German politician who served as the first prime minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) from its foundation in October 1949 until his death in Septembe ...
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Albert Grzesinski Albert Carl Grzesinski (28 July 1879 – 12 January 1948) was a German SPD politician and Minister of the Interior of Prussia from 1926 to 1930. Biography Grzesinski was born Albert Lehmann in Treptow an der Tollense, Germany, the illegitimate ...
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Kurt Gscheidle Kurt Gscheidle (16 December 1924 – 22 February 2003) was a German politician affiliated to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Gscheidle trained as a mechanic with the Deutsche Reichspost until 1942, when he was called up by the Wehrmacht. I ...
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Günter Guillaume Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995) was a German spy who gathered intelligence as an agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, in West Germany. Guillaume became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary, ...
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Ravindra Gujjula Gujjula Ravindra Reddy (born 1954) is a former member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and former mayor of Altlandsberg. He was born in Neredupalli (village), Pedacherlopalli (mandal) Kanigiri, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Re ...
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Mustafa Güngör Mustafa Güngör is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TV Pforzheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He is a former captain of the German Sevens and German XV team. He made his debut for ...
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Wolfgang Gunkel Wolfgang Gunkel (15 January 1948 – 20 May 2020) was an East German rower who mostly competed in coxed pairs together with Jörg Lucke. In this event he won the European title in 1971, the Olympic gold medal in 1972, and the world title i ...
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Hugo Haase Hugo Haase (29 September 1863 – 7 November 1919) was a German socialist politician, jurist and pacifist. With Friedrich Ebert, he co-chaired of the Council of the People's Deputies after the German Revolution of 1918–19. Early life Hugo Haa ...
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Konrad Haenisch Konrad Haenisch (13 March 1876 – 28 April 1925) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and part of "the radical Marxist Left" of German politics. He was a friend and follower (''Parvulus'' in his own words) of Alexander Parvus. Life ...
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Wilhelm Haferkamp Wilhelm Haferkamp (1 July 1923 – 17 January 1995) was a longtime member of the European Commission. Born in Germany, he was a social democratic politician. He was appointed to the commission by the West German government in 1967. He served in a ...
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Klaus Hänsch Klaus Hänsch (born 15 December 1938 in Szprotawa) is a German politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD from 17 July 1979 until 13 July 2009, and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. He was vice-chai ...
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Ernst von Harnack Ernst Wolf Alexander Oskar Harnack (15 July 1888 – 5 March 1945), granted the title von Harnack in 1914, was an official of the Prussian provincial government, a German politician, and a German Resistance fighter. He was arrested, tried and ...
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Peter Hartz Peter Hartz (born 9 August 1941 in Sankt Ingbert), was the human resources executive at the German public company Volkswagen AG (VW). Twenty percent of Volkswagen's shares are owned by the state of Lower Saxony. Hartz became notable as adviser to ...
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Wilhelm Hasenclever Wilhelm Hasenclever (19 April 1837 – 3 July 1889) was a German politician. He was originally a tanner by trade but later became a journalist and author. However, he is most known for his political work in the predecessors of the Social Democ ...
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Theodor Haubach Theodor Haubach (15 September 1896 in Frankfurt am Main – 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Theodor Haubach spent his childhood and youth in Darmstadt. In 1914, ...
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Volker Hauff Volker Hauff (born 9 August 1940) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Political career Since 1959, Hauff has been a member of the SPD. From 1969 to 1989 he was a member of the Bundestag. Hauff served as Federal Ministe ...
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Jutta Haug Jutta Dorothea Haug (born 8 October 1951 in Castrop-Rauxel) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until 2014. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group. D ...
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Fritz Heckert Friedrich (Fritz) Carl Heckert (born 28 March 1884 in Chemnitz – died 7 April 1936 in Moscow) was a German politician, co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany and a leading member of the Communist International (Co ...
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Gustav Heckmann Gustav Heckmann (22 April 1898 – 8 June 1996) was a German philosopher and teacher. He is particularly associated with philosophical extrapolations from the Socratic Dialogue format, pioneered by his mentor and friend Leonard Nelson, with ...
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Konrad Heiden Konrad Heiden (7 August 1901 – 18 June 1966) was a German-American journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of Adolf Hitler. Often, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus ...
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Hubertus Heil Hubertus Heil (born 3 November 1972) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and the first c ...
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Ernst Heilmann Ernst Heilmann (13 April 1881 – 3 April 1940) was a German jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Born in Berlin, then in Prussia, Heilmann attended the University of Berlin and majored in legal studies, law and poli ...
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Eduard Heimann Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann (11 July 1889 – 31 May 1967) was a German economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialist programs in Germany in the 1920s and later in the United States. He was hostile to capitalism but thought it ...
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Wolfgang Heine Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German jurist and social democrat politician. Heine was a member of the Imperial parliament and the Weimar National Assembly, he served as Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt and Prus ...
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Gustav Heinemann Gustav Walter Heinemann (; 23 July 1899 – 7 July 1976) was a German politician who was President of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He served as mayor of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, and Mini ...
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Barbara Hendricks Barbara Hendricks (born November 20, 1948) is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citiz ...
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Alfred Henke Alfred Henke (1 March 1868 – 24 February 1946) was a German politician, serving as a member of a number of national and regional parliaments during the early 20th century who played a major role in the establishment of the Bremen Soviet Rep ...
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Fritz Henßler Fritz Henßler (12 April 1886 – 4 December 1953) was a German Social Democratic politician. Henßler was born in Altensteig. He joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1905. He became managing editor of the ''Westfälische Allgemeine Vo ...
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Gottlieb Hering __NOTOC__ Gottlieb Hering (2 June 1887 – 9 October 1945) was an SS commander of Nazi Germany. He served in Action T4 and later as the second and last commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. Hering directly perpetr ...
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Carl Herz Carl Herz (21 December 18318 May 1897, Aschaffenburg) was a German lawyer, and, between 1871 and 1883, Member of Parliament (''Reichstagsabgeordneter''). Life The lawyer Carl Herz was born into a catholic family in Würzburg, where he attended s ...
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Regine Hildebrandt Regine Hildebrandt (née Radischewski; 26 April 1941 – 26 November 2001) was a German biologist and politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany). Life Early years Wartime in Germany Regine Radischewski was born in Berlin during the war, t ...
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Rudolf Hilferding Rudolf Hilferding (10 August 1877 – 11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born Marxism, Marxist economist, Socialism, socialist theorist,International Institute of Social History, ''Rodolf Hilferding Papers''. http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files ...
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Martin Hirsch Martin Hirsch (born 6 December 1963 in Suresnes) is a French civil servant who was the former head of Emmaüs France, the former High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty, and the High Commissioner for Youth in the government o ...
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Max Hirschberg Max Hirschberg (November 13, 1883 – June 21, 1964) was a German Jewish Weimar era anti-Nazi criminal defense lawyer and scholar. Hirschberg confronted in court directly Adolf Hitler; he was imprisoned, but released because of his conduct during ...
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Wilhelm Hoegner Wilhelm Johann Harald Hoegner (23 September 1887 in Munich – 5 March 1980 in Munich) was the second Bavarian prime minister (SPD) after World War II (1945–46 and 1954–57) and father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Socia ...
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Bodo Hombach Bodo Hombach (born 19 August 1952) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Early life and education Bodo Hombach was born in Mülheim on the Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia. After training to become a telecommunicati ...
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Reinhard Höppner Reinhard Höppner (2 December 1948 – 9 June 2014) was a German politician ( SPD) and writer. Höppner held a Dr. rer. nat. in mathematics. In 1990, in the first (and last) free election in the assembly's history, he was elected a member of th ...
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Otto Hörsing Friedrich Otto Hörsing (18 July 1874 – 16 August 1937) was a German Social democracy, social democratic politician. Biography Hörsing was born in Groß Schilleningken near Klaipėda, Memel, East Prussia (today Šilutė District Munici ...
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Antje Huber Antje Huber (23 May 1924 – 30 September 2015) was a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health from 1976 to 1982.Wolfgang Huber Wolfgang Huber (born 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg, Germany) is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Man ...
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Paul Hug Paul Norman Hug (June 27, 1906 – September 5, 1949) was an American college football player and coach. Early years Hug played under LeRoy Sprankle at Kingsport High with Bobby Dodd. Both Hug and Dodd intended to attend Vanderbilt University ...
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Karl Ibach Karl Ibach (April 3, 1915 – May 3, 1990) was a German member of the resistance against the Third Reich and later, a writer and politician. Biographical details Ibach was born in Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal, Germany. At the age of 16, h ...


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Eberhard Jäckel Eberhard Jäckel (; 29 June 1929 – 15 August 2017) was a German historian. In the 1980s he was a principal protagonist in the Historians' Dispute (''Historikerstreit'') over how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German hist ...
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Hauke Jagau Hauke Jagau (born 1961 in Hanover, West Germany) is a German politician (SPD). Career Before being mayor of Laatzen the lawyer worked for ''SPD-Landtagsfraktion Niedersachsen'', the State Ministry of Justice and the State Chancellery in the gov ...
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Wenzel Jaksch Wenzel Jaksch (25 September 1896 – 27 November 1966) was a Sudeten German Social Democrat politician and the president of the Federation of Expellees in 1964 to 1966.Heinrich Jasper Heinrich Jasper (21 August 1875 – 19 February 1945) was a German politician (SPD). During the 1920s, he served three terms as regional prime minister (''Ministerpräsident'') of the Free State of Brunswick. He died in the Bergen-Belsen conc ...
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Leo Jogiches Leon "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; 17 July 1867 – 10 March 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Polish Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany. Jogiche ...
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Karin Jöns Karin Jöns (born 29 April 1953 in Kiel) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During her time in parliament she was part of the Socialist Group and was on the European P ...
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Burkhard Jung Burkhard Jung (born 7 March 1958 in Siegen) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been the 21st lord mayor (''Oberbürgermeister'') of Leipzig (Saxony) since March 29, 2006. In addition, he has been president of th ...
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Gustav Just Gustav Just (16 June 1921 – 23 February 2011)''Alte ...
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Wolfgang Jüttner Wolfgang Jüttner (born 21 March 1948 in Lüdersfeld) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was his party's candidate for position of chief of state of Lower Saxony in 2008. After his election defeat, he ...


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Luise Kähler Luise Kähler (12 January 1869 – 22 September 1955) was a German socialist, trade union leader and politician. She was one of a small number of women union officials that held a prominent position within Germany's trade unions in the first ha ...
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Wilhelmine Kähler Wilhelmine Kähler ( Mohs or Moss, 3 April 1864 – 22 February 1941) was a German labour and women's rights activist, and politician. Activism and politics From 1890, Kähler was part of the labour movement. She co-founded and led the , ma ...
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Wilhelm Kaisen Carl Wilhelm Kaisen (22 May 1887 – 19 December 1979) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as the 2nd President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 1945 to 1965. In 1958/59 he served as the 10th ...
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Roland Kaiser Roland Kaiser (born Ronald Keiler; 10 May 1952) is a German Schlager singer. He is one of the most successful German-speaking Schlager singers. Keiler was born in West Berlin. He was working as a marketing executive in a car firm where he wa ...
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Rudolf Katz Rudolf Katz (23 November 1895 – 23 July 1961) was a German politician and judge. He was Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Biography Katz was born in Złocieniec, Falkenburg, Farther Pomerania (modern Złocieniec, ...
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Karl Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky (; ; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theorist. Kautsky was one of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in ...
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Friedrich Kellner August Friedrich Kellner (1 February 1885 – 4 November 1970) was a German mid-level official and diarist who worked as a justice inspector in Laubach from 1933 to 1945. Kellner was an infantryman in a Hessian regiment during the First Worl ...
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Petra Kelly Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and wor ...
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Johanna Kirchner Johanna "Hanna" Kirchner (née Johanna Stunz; 24 April 1889 – 9 June 1944) was a German opponent of the Nazi régime. Johanna Stunz came from a social-democratic family from Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau. Her grandfather was one of Frankfurt's fi ...
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Reinhard Klimmt Reinhard Klimmt (born 16 August 1942 in Berlin) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1998 to 1999, he was Minister-President, Minister President of Saarland, and 1999–2000, Feder ...
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Hans-Ulrich Klose Hans-Ulrich Klose (born 14 June 1937) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party and a former member of the German Federal parliament (German: ''Bundestag''). Klose was the First Mayor (German: ''Erster Bürgermeister'') of the Fre ...
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Heinz Kluncker Heinz Kluncker (February 20, 1925 (Wuppertal) – April 21, 2005 ( Stuttgart)) was president of the German trade union ÖTV (''Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr'' Public service, transport and traffic) from 1964 to 1982. Kluncker was co ...
* Johann Knief * Karl Koch * Bernard Koenen * Wilhelm Koenen *
Walter Kolbow Walter Kolbow (born 27 April 1944, in Spittal an der Drau) is a former German politician of the SPD. He was Parliamentary State Secretary (1998-2005) in the Federal Ministry of Defense, as well as deputy chairman of SPD Parliamentary Group in ...
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Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf 1948 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (6 May 1893 – 21 December 1961) was a German politician (SPD). He joined the SPD in 1919. Kopf worked from 1939 to 1943 on behalf of the Nazi government as an asset manager in occupied Poland, ...
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Karl Korsch Karl Korsch (; August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher. Along with György Lukács, Korsch is considered to be one of the major figures responsible for laying the groundwork for Western ...
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Hans Koschnick Hans Koschnick (2 April 1929 – 21 April 2016) was a German politician (SPD) and elder statesman. He was the President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 1967 to 1985, the President of the Bundesrat in 1970/71 and 1981/82, and afterwards se ...
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Adolf Köster Adolf Köster (8 March 1883 – 18 February 1930) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and diplomat. He served as Foreign Minister (1920) and Interior Minister (1921–1922). Background Adolf Köster was bor ...
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Hannelore Kraft Hannelore Kraft (''née'' Külzhammer; born 12 June 1961) is a German politician. She served as the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 until 2017. Kraft was the first woman to serve as head of government of this state and was ...
* Emil Krause * Constanze Krehl * Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler * Jürgen Krogmann *
Georg Kronawitter Georg Kronawitter (21 April 1928 – 28 April 2016) was a German politician of the SPD. He was mayor of Munich from 1972 to 1978 and from 1984 to 1993. Early life and education Kronawitter was born in Oberthann, a part of Schweitenkirchen, i ...
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Hans-Jürgen Krupp Hans-Jürgen Krupp (born 1933) is a German politician, economist, professor and former President of the University of Frankfurt. He was a representative of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and state minister in Hamburg. Krupp was born in 1933 ...
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Alfred Kubel Alfred Kubel (25 May 1909 in Braunschweig – 22 May 1999 in Bad Pyrmont) was a German politician; in his later career, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1928, after attending Middle School, Kubel became an in ...
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Fritz Kuhn Fritz Kuhn (born 29 June 1955) is a German politician who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 2012 until 2021. He was co-chairman of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German Green party, in 2002 and its parliamentary group from 2002 to 2013. Early ...
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Franz Künstler Franz Künstler ( hu, Künstler Ferenc, 24 July 1900 – 27 May 2008) was, at age 107, the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Following the death of 110-year-old Ottoman veteran Yakup S ...
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Oskar Lafontaine Oskar Lafontaine (; born 16 September 1943) is a German politician. He served as Minister-President of the state of Saarland from 1985 to 1998, and was federal leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1995 to 1999. He was the lead candid ...
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Manfred Lahnstein Manfred Lahnstein (born 20 December 1937) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 1982 he was German Federal Minister of Finance as well as Federal Minister of Economics and until 2004 worked for the media conglomera ...
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Otto Landsberg Otto Landsberg (4 December 1869 – 9 December 1957) was a German jurist, politician and diplomat. He was a member of the revolutionary Council of the People's Deputies that took power during the German Revolution of 1918–19 and then served as Mi ...
* Antonie Langendorf * David Langner * Heinrich Laufenberg * Lauritz Lauritzen * Karl Lauterbach (SPD) * Georg Leber * Julius Leber * Georg Ledebour * Emil Lederer * Carl Legien * Helmut Lehmann (politician), Helmut Lehmann * Jo Leinen * Willi Lemke * Alfred Lemmnitz * Paul Lensch * Hanfried Lenz * Willy Leow * Wilhelm Leuschner * Paul Levi * Eugen Leviné * Alfred Levy * Kurt Lichtenstein * Karl Liebknecht * Wilhelm Liebknecht * Hermann Liebmann * Jutta Limbach * Rudolf Lindau * Richard Lipinski * Burkhard Lischka * Paul Löbe * Richard Löwenthal * Paul Lohmann * Wolf von Lojewski * Siegfried Lorenz (politician), Siegfried Lorenz * Kurt Löwenstein * Hermann Lübbe * Heidi Lück * Christine Lucyga * Hermann Lüdemann * Kirsten Lühmann * Erich Lüth * Rosa Luxemburg


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* Heiko Maas * Hermann Maaß * Karl Mache * Anton Maegerle * Horst Mahler * Ulrich Maly * Bernhard Mann * Erika Mann (politician), Erika Mann * Herbert Marcuse * Emil Martin * Ludwig Marum * Franz Marx * Christoph Matschie * Hans Matthöfer * Max Maurenbrecher * Ulrich Maurer * Gustav Mayer * Hans Mayer * Markus Meckel * Franz Mehring * Stefan Meier * Susanne Melior * Ernst Melsheimer * Dirk-Ulrich Mende * Hans Merten * Dagmar Metzger * Heinz Meyer * Robert Michels * Matthias Miersch * Susanne Miller * Thomas Mirow * Dieter Möhrmann * Alexander Möller * Hans Mommsen * Walter Momper * Edgar Moron * Johann Most * Julius Motteler * Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt * Erich Mückenberger * Michael Müller (politician, born 1964) * Peter Münstermann * Franz Müntefering * Mirjam Müntefering * Oskar Munzinger


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* Andrea Nahles * Fritz Naphtali * Michael Naumann * Robert Neddermeyer * Otto Nerz * Wolfgang Nešković * Gustav Neuring * Paul Nevermann * Julian Nida-Rümelin * Ernst Niekisch * Hans Nimmerfall * Thomas Nipperdey * Maria Noichl * Gustav Noske


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* Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin * Paul Oestreich * Rainer Offergeld * Vural Öger * Erich Ollenhauer * Gerhard Olschewski * Albert Osswald * Otto Ostrowski * Aydan Özoguz


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* Norman Paech * Anton Pannekoek * Alexander Parvus * Vallabhbhai Patel * Ernst Paul * Alfons Pawelczyk * Wolfgang Pepper * Horst Peter * Detlev Peukert * Martin Pfaff * Werner Pidde * Wilhelm Pieck * Willi Piecyk * Fritz Pleitgen * Agnes Plum * Michael Poeschke * Günther Pohl * Karl Otto Pöhl * Käthe Popall * Lothar Popp * Claus Peter Poppe * Franz Pöschl * Diether Posser * Markus Maria Profitlich * Werner Pusch


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* Heike Raab * Sascha Raabe * Gustav Radbruch * Karl Radek * Siegfried Rädel * Bernhard Rapkay * Wilhelm Rapp * Johannes Rau * Reinhard Rauball * Maria Reese * Anke Rehlinger * Reinhold Rehs * Steffen Reiche * Bernhard Reichenbach * Minna Reichert * Adolf Reichwein * Hans Reinowski * Siegfried Reiprich * Johanne Reitze * Adam Remmele * Hermann Remmele * Annemarie Renger * Karl Retzlaw * Edzard Reuter * Ernst Reuter * Renate Riemeck * Isolde Ries * Walter Riester * Harald Ringstorff * Barbara Rinke * Johannes Ritter * Moritz Rittinghausen * Ulrike Rodust * Helmut Rohde * Elisabeth Röhl * Klaus Rainer Röhl * Detlev Karsten Rohwedder * Walter Romberg * Max Roscher * Julius Rosemann * Arthur Rosenberg * Otto Rosenberg * Kurt Rosenfeld * Philip Rosenthal * Wolfgang Rosenthal * Lea Rosh * Rudolf Ross * Albert Roßhaupter * Jürgen Roters * Katharina Roth * Michael Roth (politician), Michael Roth * Mechtild Rothe * Frida Rubiner * Joachim Rücker * Otto Rühle * Ortwin Runde * Bert Rürup


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* Willi Sänger * Thilo Sarrazin * Karl Schabrod * Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel * Paul Schaffer * Rudolf Scharping * Käthe Schaub * Julius Schaxel * Hermann Scheer * Philipp Scheidemann * Fritz Schenk * Henning Scherf * Frank Schildt * Karl Schiller * Konrad Schily * Otto Schily * Max Schippel * Herbert Schirmer * Marie Schlei * Bernhard Schlink * Volker Schlöndorff * Carlo Schmid (German politician), Carlo Schmid * Eduard Schmid * Nils Schmid * Richard Schmid * Helmut Schmidt * Renate Schmidt * Robert Schmidt (German politician), Robert Schmidt * Ulla Schmidt * Adam Schmitt (politician), Adam Schmitt * Jürgen Schmude * Karl Schnabel * Carsten Schneider * Karl Heinz Schneider * Ernst Schneppenhorst * Adolph Schönfelder * Olaf Scholz * Arnold Schölzel * Friedrich Schorlemmer * Stefan Schostok * Friedrich Schrader * Carl Schreck * Albert Schreiner * Ottmar Schreiner * Gerhard Schröder * Karl Schröder (KAPD), Karl Schröder * Kurt Schröder * Richard Schröder * Wilhelm Heinz Schröder * Louise Schroeder * Albrecht Schröter * Werner Schröter * Hermann Schubert (politician), Hermann Schubert * Katina Schubert * Manfred Schüler * Albert Schulz * Heinrich Schulz (politician), Heinrich Schulz * Martin Schulz * Oskar Schulz * Peter Schulz * Kurt Schumacher * Joachim Schuster * Stefan Schuster * Werner Schuster (politician), Werner Schuster * Klaus Schütz * Gesine Schwan * Rolf Schwanitz * Ernst Schwarz (politician), Ernst Schwarz * Thomas Schwarz * Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter * Hans Schweitzer * Manuela Schwesig * Tino Schwierzina * Kurt Schwitters * Martin Segitz * Elisabeth Selbert * Erwin Sellering * Carl Severing * Max Seydewitz * Carsten Sieling * Max Sievers * Robert Siewert * Anna Simon * Günter Simon * Peter Simon (politician), Peter Simon * Heide Simonis * Paul Singer (politician), Paul Singer * Hugo Sinzheimer * Birgit Sippel * Gustav Sobottka * Fritz Soldmann * Wilhelm Sollmann * Paul Spiegel * Alfons Spielhoff * Dieter Spöri * Klaus Staeck * Ingrid Stahmer * Wolfgang Stammberger * Dorothee Stapelfeldt * Hans Staudinger * Erwin Staudt * Johann Stegner * Ralf Stegner * Peer Steinbrück * Karl Steinhoff * Fritz Steinhoff * Frank-Walter Steinmeier * Jutta Steinruck * Johannes Stelling * Carola Stern * Martin Stevens (German politician), Martin Stevens * Anna Stiegler * Ludwig Stiegler * Christian Stock * Ulrich Stockmann * Karl Wilhelm Stolle * Manfred Stolpe * Richard Stöss * Otto Strasser * Dietrich Stobbe * Heinrich Ströbel * Käte Strobel * Hans-Christian Ströbele * Peter Struck (politician), Peter Struck * Otto Suhr * Stefan Szende


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* Fritz Tarnow * Johanna Tesch * Silke Tesch * August Thalheimer * Bertha Thalheimer * Ernst Thälmann * Matthias Theisen * Wolfgang Thierse * Wolfgang Tiefensee * Ernst Tillich * Ernst Torgler * Carl Wilhelm Tölcke * Ferdinand Tönnies * Klaus Toppmöller * Karl Trabalski * Heinrich Trinowitz * Heinrich Troeger


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* Christian Ude * Fred Uhlmann * Ernst Uhrlau * Walter Ulbricht


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* Egon Vaupel * Carola Veit * Günter Verheugen * Hans Vogel * Hans-Jochen Vogel * Franz Vogt * Roland Vogt * Georg von Vollmar * Wolfgang Völz * Henning Voscherau


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* Eduard Wald * Orli Wald * Jürgen Walter (SPD), Jürgen Walter * Ralf Walter * Alma Wartenberg * Alfred Weber * Klaus Wedemeier * Friedrich Wehmer * Herbert Wehner * Stephan Weil * Barbara Weiler * Gert Weisskirchen * Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker * Otto Wels * Ernst Welteke * Rainer Wend * Georg Wendt * Paul Wengert * Helene Wessel * Paul Wessel * Hans Westermann * Friedrich Westmeyer * Heinz Westphal * Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul * Wolfgang Wiegard * Reinhard Wilmbusse * Thomas Wimmer (politician), Thomas Wimmer * Heinrich August Winkler * Ernst Winter * Rudolf Winter * Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski * Rudolf Wissell * Wolfgang Wodarg * Dietmar Woidke * Fritz Wolffheim * Rosi Wolfstein * Klaus Wowereit * Monika Wulf-Mathies * Hans Wunderlich * Mathilde Wurm * Emil Wutzky


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* Andrea Ypsilanti


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* Uta Zapf * Wolfgang Zeidler * Erich Zeigner * Clara Zetkin * Anna Ziegler (politician), Anna Ziegler * Jörg Ziercke * Luise Zietz * Hermann Zimmer * Edwin Zimmermann * Charlotte Zinke * Georg August Zinn * Fritz Zubeil * Brigitte Zypries {{Lists of German politicians by party Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians, Lists of German politicians by party, Social Democratic Party of Germany