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Also Known As SPD • Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands • Socialist Workers’ Party
Date 1875 - present
Areas Of Involvement socialism • left
Related People Wilhelm Liebknecht • Franz Mehring • Björn Engholm • Olaf Scholz • Friedrich Ebert • August Bebel • Eduard Bernstein • Willy Brandt • Peer Steinbrück • Frank-Walter Steinmeier • Gerhard Schröder • Helmut Schmidt • Karl Kautsky • Helmut von Gerlach • Rudolf Hilferding

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