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- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1952
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Der Auftrag des demokratischen Sozialismus
- Weggenossen Kurt Schumacher, Erwin Schoettel
- Die jüngere Redaktion der Chanson Renaut de Montauban nach der Pariser und Londoner Handschrift und ihr Verhältnis zur älteren Version
- Aufgaben und Ziele der deutschen Sozialdemokratie
- Bundestagsreden
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Key facts
- Deputy
- Erich Ollenhauer , Wilhelm Knothe
- Preceded by
- Hans Vogel
- Succeeded by
- Erich Ollenhauer
- Chancellor
- Konrad Adenauer
- Born
- Curt Ernst Carl Schumacher , ( 1895-10-13 ) 13 October 1895, Kulm , West Prussia , German Empire ( now Chełmno , Poland )
- Died
- 20 August 1952 (1952-08-20) (aged 56), Bonn , West Germany
- Party
- Social Democratic Party (from 1918)
- Alma mater
- University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Occupation
- Jurist , politician
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kurt
- Family name
- Schumacher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- West Germany
- Place of birth
- Chełmno
- Place of death
- Bonn
- Occupation
- resistance fighter
- Educated at
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Participant in
- 1949 West German presidential election
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- K.Schumacher.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kurt Schumacher (politician)
- date of death
- 1952-08-20
- date of birth
- 1895-10-13
- name in native language
- Kurt Schumacher
- place of detention
- Flossenbürg concentration camp
- catalog code
- 11002113
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Curt Ernst Carl Schumacher, better known as Kurt Schumacher (13 October 1895 – 20 August 1952), 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.
Upon Adolf Hitler's seizure of power, Schumacher was imprisoned for ten years in various Nazi concentration camps. After World War II, he was one of the founding fathers of postwar German democracy. Throughout his life, he opposed far-right and far-left political movements, including the Nazi Party and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Referencing the concept of red fascism, Schumacher described the KPD as "red-painted Nazis".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kurt Schumacher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.