Rudolf Breitscheid, was a leading member of the Social Democratic Party and a delegate to the Reichstag during the era of the Weimar Republic in Germany. Breitscheid, the son of a bookshop manager, was born in Cologne. He studied at a Gymnasium in Cologne. From 1894 to 1898 he studied Economics at the Universities of Munich and Marburg; in 1898 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation entitled Land Policy in the Australian Colonies. From 1898 to 1905, he worked as an editor and correspondent for newspapers with a middle-class, Liberal outlook. Between 1903 and 1908, Breitscheid was a member of the Free-minded Union. In 1908, he numbered among the ...
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