Hermann Wilhelm Haupt was born in

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in 1831. He was a business clerk and became a member of the

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. However, he betrayed the other defendants during the

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and was subsequently released by the police during the official investigation.Biographical note contained in the ''Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10'' (International Publishers: New York, 1978) p. 722.

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