Wilhelm Pieck23 March 1933
Represents the excluded communist opposition, whose deputies are absent after arrests, flight and repression following the Reichstag fire.
Germany · Politics / Communist Party of Germany. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Represents the excluded communist opposition, whose deputies are absent after arrests, flight and repression following the Reichstag fire.
Is unable to oppose the Enabling Act in the Reichstag because the KPD has been suppressed and he is under arrest.
Cannot vote against the Enabling Act because he is imprisoned after being accused in connection with the Reichstag fire.
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