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Kurt Bürger

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Kurt Bürger in 1949

Kurt Bürger (27 August 1894 in Karlsruhe, Baden as Karl Wilhelm Ganz – 28 July 1951 in Schwerin) was a German politician.

From 1912 to 1918, he was a representative of the Social Democratic Party. In 1919, he was a cofounder of the Communist Party of Germany.

After World War II, he became a member of the East German Socialist Unity Party and served as minister-president of the East German state of Mecklenburg in 1951.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Van Melis, Damian (1996). Entnazifizierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ISBN 978-3-486-56390-0.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung (in German). Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED. 1969. p. 840.