Kurt Schumacher

✶October 13, 1895

†August 20, 1952

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About their life

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 the first Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag in West Germany in 1949; he served in both positions until his death.

German politician (1895-1952)

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