Wehner, Herbert

*		1906
†		1990

Beruf
German politician

Überblick

	enters the KPD in 1927
	1930-1935 member of the Saxony Landtag (Parliament)
	1933-1935 underground resistance against the National Socialists
	1935 exile in Moscow
	1941 on a Party mission in Sweden
	1942-1944 interned; break with the Communists
	1946 returns to Germany and joins the SPD
	1949-1983 member of the SPD in the Bundestag
	1958-1972 Deputy Chairman of the SPD
	1966-69 Minister for All-German Issues
	1969-83 Chairman of the SPD Bundestag fraction