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Rudolf Breitscheid

Rudolf Breitscheid

1874–1944

Nationality
German Reich
Occupation
politician

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.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Buchenwald concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  2. Maison d'arrêt de la Santé
    Dates unknown
  3. Maison d'arrêt de la Santé
    Dates unknown
  4. Buchenwald concentration camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

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 1912. He defected to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) in 1917 due to his opposition to the First World War, and rejoined the SPD in 1922. He served as a senior member of and foreign policy spokesman for the SPD Reichstag group during the Weimar Republic, and was a member of the German delegation to the League of Nations. After the Nazi rise to power, he was among the members of the Reichstag who voted against the Enabling Act of 1933, and soon after fled to France to avoid persecution. He was arrested and handed to the Gestapo in 1941, and died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.

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