Otto Wels
German politician (1873-1939) · Politicians · Died at 66
Otto Wels was a German politician who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933 and as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1919 until his death in 1939.
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Adolf Hitler 4 moreCandidate1918Named Member of the Reichstag of the Weimar RepublicOffice1 January 1918 to 1 January 19331912Named Member of the Reichstag of the German EmpireOffice1 January 1912 to 1 January 19181873Born15 September 1873Also in Deutsch
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He was the military commander of Berlin in the turbulent early days of the German Revolution of 1918-1919, and during the 1920 Kapp Putsch he was instrumental in organizing the general strike that helped defeat the anti-republican putschists. Near the end of the Weimar Republic's life, however, he saw the futility of calling a general strike against the 1932 Prussian coup d'état because of the mass unemployment of the Great Depression.
