# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-breitscheid
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:05.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-breitscheid"
name: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
slug: "rudolf-breitscheid"
description: "Rudolf Breitscheid 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."
tagline: "German politician (1874–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13412%2C_Otto_Braun_und_Rudolf_Breitscheid_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1874-11-02"
deathDate: "1944-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.808938666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "رودولف بريتستشيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid"
    title: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid"
    title: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid"
    title: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid"
    title: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid"
    title: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84"
    title: "Брейтшейд, Рудольф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breitscheid"
    title: "Rudolf Breitscheid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70890"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump