Kurt Schumacher
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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
Schumacher c. 1945–1948
Schumacher's birthplace in Chełmno
Schumacher's official Reichstag portrait, 1930
Schumacher's Dachau mugshot, 1936
A federal election was held in West Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag, with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another e
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…1949. Schumacher was convinced he would win, and most observers agreed with him; however, Adenauer's new CDU had several advantages over the SPD in the 1949 West German federal election. Much of the SPD's prewar power base was now part of the Soviet Zone, and the most conservative parts of prewar Germany, such as Bavaria and the…
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