1. Arthur Crispien was a German Social Democratic politician.
20 Facts About Arthur Crispien
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Arthur Crispien was co-chairman and member of the Reichstag for the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, USPD, from 1920 - 1922.
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Arthur Crispien was co-chairman and member of the Reichstag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD, from 1922 to 1933.
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Arthur Crispien worked as a house and stage painter in Konigsberg and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1894.
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Arthur Crispien worked for a Health insurance fund and became the editor of the Konigsberger Volkszeitung, the Danzig Volkswacht and the Schwabische Tagwacht in Stuttgart.
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In 1906 to 1912 Arthur Crispien was the regional Chairman of the SPD in West Prussia.
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Arthur Crispien was sent in 1912 to Stuttgart to become editor-in-chief of the party paper Schwabischen Tagwacht.
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Arthur Crispien became part of the innermost circle of the SPD's left wing, which was then called the Gruppe Internationale, the International Group, but which later became the Spartacus League, and which was led by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Clara Zetkin.
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Arthur Crispien illegally published the newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat and was imprisoned for some months.
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Arthur Crispien was conscripted in the German Army in 1916.
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Arthur Crispien was sent to the Western Front but managed to desert.
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Arthur Crispien was critical to the idea of a merger of the USPD with the KPD.
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Arthur Crispien now became a target for the German Communists and the Communist International who portrayed the USPD as "social fascist".
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From 1921 Arthur Crispien was a member of the executive board of the International Working Union of Socialist Parties.
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Arthur Crispien was a Member of Reichstag for the SPD from 1922 and co-led the party from 1922 to 1933.
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Arthur Crispien was the SPD's main candidate in the elections to the Reichstag on 5 March 1933, which was held six days after the Reichstag fire.
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Arthur Crispien managed to flee the country and went into exile to Austria and later Switzerland, representing the Social Democratic Party in Exile.
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Arthur Crispien supported political and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and became a member of the Swiss Socialist Party.
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Arthur Crispien was a delegate at the refugee conference of 1945 at Montreux.
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Arthur Crispien died in Bern, Switzerland, on 29 November 1946, aged 71.