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Curt Ernst Carl Schumacher, better known as Kurt Schumacher, was a German politician and resistance fighter against the Nazis. He was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and t
1949 West German federal election
…protagonist of a "state-to-be". He attacked social democracy and the British, especially, dismantling of industry. The Social Democratic (SPD) leader, Kurt Schumacher, wanted a united, democratic and socialist Germany. Schumacher had heavily agitated against the forced merger of the Communist Party (KPD) and SPD (both…
Schumacher c. 1945–1948
Schumacher's birthplace in Chełmno
Schumacher's official Reichstag portrait, 1930
Schumacher's Dachau mugshot, 1936