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unusual facts about social democrat



Alice Timander

She billed herself as a politically active Social Democrat, but in 1988 turned to the small Christian Democratic Party to be involved in the party's general election campaign the same year.

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (born 24 July 1922 in Allenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland); died 24 February 2005 in Cologne) was a German Social Democrat politician.

Henry Allard

Karl Åke Henry Allard, (born 21 November 1911 in Örebro; died 23 October 1996 in Örebro) was Swedish politician (Social Democrat), speaker of the Riksdag's second chamber 1969–1970.

History of Parliamentarism

In 1932 the Lapua Movement attempted a coup d'état, aiming at the exclusion of Social Democrats from political power, but the Conservative President Svinhufvud maintained his democratic government.

PISA 2012

The Leader of the Opposition, Social Democrat Stefan Löfven, described the situation as a national crisis.

Politics of Israel

They traditionally fall into three camps, the first two being the largest: Labor Zionism (social democrat), Revisionist Zionism (conservative) and Religious Zionism.

Popular Socialism

For example, the Popular Socialist Party of Mexico is a rather hardline communist party, whereas the Spanish PSP was a left-social democrat formation.

Russian Party of Social Democracy

It was founded in February 1995 on the initiative of Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, the 'architect of perestroika', who in 1994 had called for forming a united movement of Russian social democrats.

Siegfried Kampl

He attributed his decision not to resign partly to what he called the "provocative" manner in which Federal Council President Georg Pehm (a Social Democrat) had demanded he do so.


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Bertha Wellin

In 1921, she became one of the first five women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women suffrage alongside Nelly Thüring (Social Democrat), Agda Östlund (Social Democrat) and Elisabeth Tamm (liberal) in the Lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the Upper chamber.

Elisabeth Tamm

In 1921, she became one of the five first women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women suffrage alongside Nelly Thüring (Social Democrat), Agda Östlund (Social Democrat) and Bertha Wellin (Conservative) in the Lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the Upper chamber.

General German Workers' Association

He had been writing for the association's newspaper Der Sozial-Demokrat ("the Social Democrat") but now, in disagreement with the paper's Prussia-friendly position, he left, first forming the Saxon People's Party along with August Bebel, and then in 1869 becoming a co-founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei, SDAP) in Eisenach as a branch of the International Workingmen's Association.

Gertrud Månsson

In 1909, both genders became eligible in local elections, and in the municipal elections of 1910-1911, the first 37 women were elected to various city councils around the country, among them two for the capital's city council: the social democrat Gertrud Månsson and the right wing Valfrid Palmgren.

Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer

The Social-Democrat Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee was to present a law project before the council of ministers which envisioned to sell 25% of the Deutsche Bahn beginning of 2008.

Lapua Movement

In February 1932 a Social Democrat meeting in Mäntsälä was violently interrupted by armed Lapua activists.

Milorad Pupovac

He was one of the leading members of the Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative, and after that he was the leader of the League of Social Democrats and head of the Social Democrat Alliance of Croatia - Social Democrat Alliance of Yugoslavia.

Number the Stars

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, an attache for Nazi Germany, contacts Danish social democrat Hans Hedtoft and notifies him of the intended deportation.

Ovidiu Sincai Social Democratic Institute

The institute is viewed as one of Social Democratic Party, (Partidul Social Democrat - PSD).

Pim Fortuyn

While Fortuyn compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a social democrat, and Democratic U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig

On 5 May 1932 a Social Democrat member of the municipal council, Gruhn, was murdered by the leader of the SS district Neuteich (Nowy Staw), Rudzinski.

University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003

It was also the first election to use the single transferable vote, after the previous election by first past the post in 1987 saw two conservative candidates (Robert Blake, Baron Blake and Sir Edward Heath) splitting the conservative vote at 2,500 each, allowing social democrat Roy Jenkins to win with just 3,500 votes.

Vaclavs Borduško

As after the Kārlis Ulmanis coup of 15 May 1934 all social democrat organisations were banned, SSS was disbanded and Borduško moved to Riga Vanderer.