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The basics
Quick facts
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American politician
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Male
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Birth:
13 April 1881(Berlin)
Death:
3 April 1940(Buchenwald concentration camp, extermination camp)
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Peter Heilmann
The details
Biography
Ernst Heilmann (13 April 1881 – 3 April 1940) was a German jurist and politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Born in Berlin, then Prussia, Heilmann attended the University of Berlin, majoring in law and political science. During World War I, he was a proponent of Burgfriedenspolitik. Heilman gained a seat in the Reichstag in the German federal election, 1928. Only a few months after the Machtergreifung, Heilmann was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1940.