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The first attacks were launched on what later became the Elsengrund residential estate, close to the Berlin-Köpenick station.One of those detained, 24-year-old carpenter and Reichsbanner member Anton Schmaus fatally shot two SA men in self-defense, with a third being killed by friendly fire, while being unlawfully arrested on the first day, which marked the outbreak of the violence.
Altona Bloody Sunday (German: Altonaer Blutsonntag) is the name given to the events of 17 July 1932 when a recruitment march by the Nazi SA led to violent clashes between the police, the SA and supporters of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Altona, which at the time belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein but is now part of Hamburg.
An uninvolved passerby was shot in the head by police. 1930-03-13 Kißling, Paul Dresden: Provinz Sachsen: A citizen journalist was taking photos of a KPD-organized hunger march across Saxony when police interrupted the proceedings with armored vehicles and beat the participants with batons. As several officers were blocking off the street from ...
After World War II, the SPD was re-formed in West Germany after being banned by the Nazi regime; in East Germany, it merged with the Communist Party of Germany to form the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Under the chairmanship of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD was a socialist party representing the interests of the working class and of trade ...
August Lütgens (16 December 1897 – 1 August 1933) was a communist activist who spent the 1920s exiled in the Soviet Union.On returning to Germany in 1930 or 1931 he became a leading member of the paramilitary "Red Front-Fighters" ("Roter Frontkämpferbund" / RFB) in the politically volatile Hamburg region.
Chairman of the SPD in the British zone, resisting Grotewohl's claims and implementing the formation of the SPD in the new founded Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in 1949. Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 1949–1990 Kurt Schumacher: 23 May 1949 – 20 August 1952: Died in office Erich Ollenhauer: 27 September 1952 – 14 ...
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) had won the most votes and was the largest party in every election from 1919 to 1930. They led the coalition government between 1919–1920 and 1928–1930. After the 1928 German federal election, a grand coalition was formed under the Social Democratic chancellor Hermann Müller. The coalition ...
The German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, DDP) was a liberal political party in the Weimar Republic, considered centrist [10] or centre-left. [11] Along with the right-liberal German People's Party ( Deutsche Volkspartei , DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933.