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Theodor Heuss
January 31, 1884 - December 12, 1963
Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss co-founded the German Democratic Party (DDP) in 1918 and represented it in the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933.
A liberal politician and political journalist, he taught at the German Academy for Politics from 1920 until he was banned from teaching in 1933. He repeatedly warned against the Nazi movement in public speeches and in articles and books (Hitlers Weg, 1932).
In a Reichstag debate in May of 1932, Theodor Heuss could discover “nothing but theoretical nonsense” in the National Socialists’ economic and currency agenda and said that the “Third Reich” would consist of “re-varnished and cleaned-up leftovers of the Wilhelmine era.” In 1933, however, he gave w