Rudolf Jung [SEP] member of political party
Rudolf Jung


Rudolf Jung (16 April 1882 – 11 December 1945) was an instrumental figure and agitator in the German Bohemian National Socialist movement, and later became a member of the Nazi Party. Jung was born in Plasy in Bohemia and went to school in Jihlava, a town fractured by national antagonisms. He was a civil engineer employed by the national railways of Austria-Hungary. In 1909, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP) and became an ardent party agitator. Because of his political activism, Jung was fired
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German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia)


The German National Socialist Workers' Party (, DNSAP, ) was a protofascist party of Germans in Czechoslovakia, successor of the German Workers' Party (DAP) from Austria-Hungary. It was founded in November 1919 in Duchcov. Most important party activists were Hans Knirsch, Hans Krebs, Adam Fahrner, Rudolf Jung and Josef Patzel. In May 1932 it had 1,024 local chapters with 61,000 members. Unlike the successive sister party in Austria, which only played a marginal role in Austrian politics, the Czechoslovak branch was able
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American Left


parties. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a political party that formed after a 1995 ideological rupture with Workers World Party over the issue of their support of the Fidel Castro government in Cuba, The SEP are composed of Trotskyists and are affiliated with the World Socialist Web Site. With fewer than one thousand members in 1996, the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) was the second largest Marxist–Leninist party in the United States. Formed by supporters of Leon Trotsky, they believed that the Soviet Union and other Communist
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Naresh Balyan


Naresh Balyan () is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Uttam Nagar constituency of New Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. Naresh Balyan was born in Delhi. He attended the Haryana Shakti Senior Secondary School and attained ninth grade degree. Naresh Balyan has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Uttam Nagar constituency and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. On 21 Sep 2015, Balyan complained to police
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Klaus Junge


Duras Jubileé, "60-jährigen Jubiläum"). In 1942–43, he played in three correspondence tournaments, beating among others Rudolf Teschner and Emil Joseph Diemer. Klaus Junge, whose father had been a member of the Nazi Party since 1932, was an adherent of the National Socialist ideology. As a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht, refusing to surrender, he died in combat against Allied troops on 17 April 1945 in the Battle of Welle on the Lüneburg Heath, close to Hamburg, three weeks before World War II ended. In 1946
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Rudolf Jung


the hope that his book would play the same role for National Socialism that "Das Kapital" had for Marxian socialism. At the end of World War I, the DAP was renamed the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP). Jung convinced Hitler to include the term "National Socialist" in the name of the German Workers' Party, the DAP's counterpart in Germany. Hitler originally wanted to rename the German DAP the "Social Revolutionary Party". Some of the posts Jung held were: President of the State Labour office
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Rudolf Degkwitz


Rudolf Degkwitz (born 19 January 1889 in Ronneburg, died 21 May 1973 in Emmendingen) was a German physician, an early member of the Nazi Party and a participant in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. He was acquainted with Rudolf Hess and became involved with the Nazi Party in the early 1920s. He took part in Nazi political discussions in Munich and befriended Adolf Hitler. In 1923 he became a member of the Nazi Party, and he took part in the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. He eventually left the Nazi
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Ferdinand Jung


during the 1920s Jung joined the recently created Young Communists (KJVD / "Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands"), and in 1924, the year of his nineteenth birthday, he also joined the Communist party, becoming an active member of the Red Front Fighters (RFB /"Roter Frontkämpferbund"). Between 1924 and 1929 he was a political leader within the Young Communists: within the Communist Party, between 1931 and 1933 he was party head for the Waltershausen sub-district and a political leader in the party's . Germany underwent significant regime
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Rudolf Jung


, but the party put him on its payroll and he devoted himself to theoretical work. Along with Dr. Walter Riehl, Jung drafted the Jihlava party program of 1913 "which contained a more detailed comparison of international Marxism and national socialism and a more pointed attack on Capitalism, Democracy, alien peoples, and Jews. Here, anti-semitism ranked behind anti-Slavism, anti-clericalism and anti-capitalism." In 1919, Jung completed his theoretical work "Der Nationale Sozialismus". In his introduction, he expressed
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Young Union


The Junge Union Deutschlands ("Young Union of Germany") or JU is the joint youth organisation of the two conservative German political parties, CDU and CSU. Membership is limited to individuals between 14 and 35 years of age. Junge Union claims to be the largest political youth organization in Germany and Europe with about 120,000 members. The JU views itself as an organization that aims to further the goals of its parent political parties, CDU/CSU, among the German youth, and to represent the interests of the younger generation
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National Socialist Program


Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in February 1920 and it remained the Party’s official program. The 25-point Program was a German adaptation — by Anton Drexler, Adolf Hitler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart — of Rudolf Jung’s Austro–Bohemian program. Unlike the Austrians, the Germans did not claim to being either liberal or democratic and opposed neither political reaction nor the aristocracy, yet advocated democratic institutions (i.e. the German central parliament) and voting rights solely for Germans — implying that a Nazi government would retain popular suffrage
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Ahn Hee-jung


Chul and Roh Moo-hyun. However, Ahn did not join the move as he was against the three-party-merger in principle so instead he led the efforts to establish a new democratic party in 1990. The eighteen members of the Reunification Democratic Party including Ahn Hee-jung chose to remain in the newly established democratic party. He also worked as secretary to Director-General Lee Chul. As he became disillusioned with the negative sides of politics, he made his mind to quit politics. To further reflect on
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Lee Jung-hee


. On December 19, 2014, Mrs. Lee was removed from all political activities with the Unified Progressive Party, and the party itself was removed from the Korean political scene, due to the unconstitutional nature of her party policies which deemed by the South Korean court as "pro-North Korean" Lee and other members of her party were removed and the party disbanded. Five members of the party were also members of the Parliament. It was the first time the constitutional court of Korea banned a political party since 1988. Lee
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in Australia. The SEP was established in 2010 as the successor party to the Socialist Labour League, which was founded in 1972 as the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). According to its 2019 election statement, the party opposes identity politics and the Me Too movement. The party also criticises contemporary trade unions, having adopted the position that "They are no longer workers’ organisations." Inspired by the British Socialist Labour League
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Friedrich Jung (pharmacologist)


Institute he joined a political opposition group around Robert Havemann and . Another group member was Waltraut Schwarzkopff whom Jung later married. Germany at this time was ruled as a one-party dictatorship, and Jung's involvement in political opposition led to his being identified as "politically unreliable". He was removed from the institute and sent to the front, serving as a medical officer between 1942 and 1944. During the less hectic periods in his life on the front line he was able to complete a dissertation for his habilitation, and
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Reunification Democratic Party


The Reunification Democratic Party was a political party of South Korea from 1987 to 1990. The party was established in April 1987 by Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam, splitting from the New Korea Democratic Party. The party faced another split later that year with Kim Dae-jung and his followers organizing Peace Democratic Party. The party later merged with conservative Democratic Justice Party and New Democratic Republican Party in January 1990. The party members who opposed the split formed the Democratic Party. The party had strong support in the
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Ludwig Rubiner


teamed up with the politically like-minded writers Arthur Holitscher, Rudolf Leonhard, Franz Jung und Alfons Goldschmidt to set up the Bund Proletarischer Kultur (""League for Proletarian Culture""). It sought to promote "the eternal values bequeathed by the illustrious spirits of the past." The league was consciously modelled on a Soviet pattern, and at least one source states that by this time Rubiner had probably joined the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. It sought to introduce proletarian culture to support the struggle of the
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National Congress for New Politics


The National Congress for New Politics was a political party of South Korea from 1995 to 2000. The party later merged with New Peoples party forming the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP; 새천년민주당; Saecheonnyeon Minjudang) The party was formed in 1995 as the National Congress for New Politics (새정치국민회의; Saejeongchi Gungminhoeu) after Kim Dae-jung returned to active politics following his retirement in 1992. The majority of the party's early supporters were former members of the opposition Democratic Party, formed in 1991. In the 1996 Parliamentary election the
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Golden Dawn (political party)


August 1987, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party, committed suicide in Spandau Prison. The following day, on 18 August 1987, Golden Dawn members distributed proclamations in the center of Athens with the phrase "Rudolf Hess Immortal" (). In pictures taken during the first congress of Golden Dawn in February 1990, the congress hall is decorated with the Swastika and the Wolfsangel. There are many cases in which Golden Dawn members have appeared to give a Nazi salute. The founder of the party,
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Junge Generation


The Young Generation (, JG) is the youth organisation of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), a political party representing the German-speaking and Ladin-speaking population of South Tyrol, in Italy. The Young Generation has about 6,000 members and is therefore the largest political youth organisation in South Tyrol and is the community of all party members of the SVP at the age of 14 to 30. The JG has about 100 local groups spread over the whole territory. President of the organisation is René Tumler,
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Rudolf Seiters


1958, he has been a member of the CDU. From 1963 until 1965, he was the Borough-president of the Osnabrück-Emsland chapter of the CDU youth organization Junge Union. Then, from 1965–1968, he was the president of the state chapter in Hannover and from 1968–1971 of the newly founded Lower Saxony chapter. From 1967–1971, he was furthermore a member of the Federal Executive Board of the Junge Union and then from 1971–1973 a member of the Federal Managing Board of the CDU itself. From 1972–1998, he was
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Socialist Equality Party (United States)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States, one of several Socialist Equality parties around the world affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The ICFI publishes daily news articles, perspectives and commentaries on the World Socialist Web Site and maintains Mehring Books as publishing house. The SEP was formed in 1995 by the Workers League, the US supporters of the ICFI. The Workers League had been founded in 1966 by the American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI)
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Paul Lejeune-Jung


sons. After Lejeune-Jung worked in the wartime raw materials department, wool unit, at the Prussian War Ministry, he found his definitive professional niche as managing director of the Association of German Pulp Makers ("Verein Deutscher Zellstofffabrikanten"). This was also the starting point for his later political career. Early on, Lejeune-Jung had connections with the German National People's Party (DNVP), for whom he was elected in 1924 as the only Catholic member of the Reichstag from Middle Silesia, representing the electoral
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Paul Lejeune-Jung


Party itself by 1919, a dispute had arisen among Catholics as to Catholics' relationship with the republican form of government. His political position as a Reichstag member with fundamental conservative convictions notwithstanding, Lejeune-Jung belonged to the moderate forces within the DNVP, who managed to bring themselves to practise positive coöperation in the Weimar State. Lejeune-Jung belonged to the conservative German Gentlemen's Club ("Deutscher Herrenklub"). The petition for a referendum against the Young Plan (1929), sought by DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg,
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David North (socialist)


David North (born 1950) is an American Marxist theoretician. He is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP), formerly the Workers League. He served as the national secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008. North was the principal political and theoretical leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International during the organization's split with the Workers Revolutionary Party in Britain. North is also the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the voice
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Miguel Serrano


, which repeated Szabó's claims about Hitler's survival. In 1951, Serrano travelled to Europe, and in Germany visited various sites associated with the Nazi Party, including Hitler's Berlin bunker, Hitler's Berghof home, and Spandau Prison, where Rudolf Hess and other prominent Nazis were then imprisoned. During this trip he also visited Switzerland, where he met and befriended the writer Hermann Hesse and the psychoanalyst Carl Jung. In 1953, Serrano—following a number of other family members—joined the Chilean diplomatic corps. He
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Sudeten German Party


legitimacy of the Czechoslovakian state. Under Knirsch's successor Rudolf Jung, the party increasingly influenced by the rise of the Nazi Party in the German Weimar Republic. In 1933, both the DNSAP and DNP decided to dissolve in order to prevent the imminent ban by the Prague government. The SHF was founded on 1 October 1933. The party entered into an alliance with the Carpatho-German Party (KdP) in the same year. The newly established SdP did not see itself as a successor of the DNSAP; in fact,
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Ahn Hee-jung


the Participatory Government Evaluation Forum. The following year, he made a vow to follow the political beliefs of two former Presidents: Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, and was elected as an executive committee member of the United Democratic Party. After being elected, he took a leading role in establishing the Better Democracy Research Institute which inherited the functions of the Local Autonomy Affairs Research Institute. Ahn won the governorship of South Chungcheong Province against Park Sang-don of the Liberty Forward Party by a margin of 2.4 percent
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Unification movement


the United States. In 2003, Korean Unification movement members started a political party in South Korea. It was named "The Party for God, Peace, Unification and Home". In its inauguration declaration, the new party said it would focus on preparing for Korean reunification by educating the public about God and peace. Moon was a member of the Honorary Committee of the Unification Ministry of the Republic of Korea. Church member Jae-jung Lee was a Unification Minister of the Republic of Korea. In 2010, in Pyongyang
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Rudolf Klug


founder of the so-called "Proletarische Volksheim-Jugend" organisation. In 1929 Rudolf and Kati joined the Young Communists and the Communist Party itself. They participated in day trips and evening political discussions organised by the party. Hamburg city politics during the later 1920s , with the Social Democrats and traditional conservative parties losing out to the Communists on the left and, even more starkly, to the Nazis at the other extreme. Rudolf Klug became involved with the "Interests Community of Opposition Teachers" (""Interessengemeinschaft Oppositioneller Lehrer
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Silesian People's Party


) and "Nasz Ślązak" (Our Silesian) were the pro-Czech papers. The Czechs founded the organization Czech-Szlonzakian Unity ("Česko-šlonzacká jednota"), which incorporated weak SPP organizations in Frydek county and connected it to the Czech political camp. The leading members of the Silesian People's Party in Czechoslovakia were: Józef Kożdoń, Rudolf Pierniczek, Karol Malina, Rudolf Francus, Walter Harbich in Český Těšín, Ludwik Niedoba i Alojzy Kuchejda in Jablunkov, Oswald Bayer in Třinec, Gustaw Wałach in Orlová
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Rudolf von Sebottendorf


Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer (9 November 1875 – 8 May 1945?), better known under his pseudo-aristocratic "alias" Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or von Sebottendorf) was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He was the founder of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization where he played a key role, and that influenced many members of the Nazi Party. He was a Freemason, a Sufi of the Bektashi order - after his conversion to Islam -
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Park Joo-sun


Park Joo-sun (Korean: 박주선, born 23 July 1949) is a South Korean Bareunmirae Party politician, who is currently the president of the party along with Yoo Seong-min, and the Second Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. Born at Boseong County, South Jeolla Province. Before he entered to politics, he worked as a prosecutor. His political career was started by ex-president Kim Dae-jung, in 1998. He was willing to run as one of the parliament members of Millenium Democratic Party
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JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke


The JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke (German: JD/JL, Junge Demokraten, JuDos), is a left-leaning political youth organization in Germany, founded in 1919. It was the youth wing associated with the German Democratic Party (DDP) and, after the Second World War, of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) until 1983, after which it became party-independent. The Young Democrats or JuDos, in German, were founded in 1919. They were the official youth wing of the Free Democratic Party (
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Democratic Union (Germany)


The Democratic Union (, DV) was a German political party in the German Empire. The Union was founded in 1908 by former members of the Freeminded Union ("Freisinnigen Vereinigung"). The party demanded full equal voting rights for all, and a strict separation of Church and State. It was not principled, or "revolutionary" against Wilhelmine Germany though. Important party members were Theodor Barth, Rudolf Breitscheid (first chairman) and Hellmut von Gerlach. Carl von Ossietzky joined the party in 1908, and from 1911
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Christian Liberal Party


The Christian Liberal Party () is a political party in South Korea established on March 3, 2016. The party had one representative in the 19th National Assembly, Lee Yun-seok, formerly a member of the Minjoo Party of Korea. Announcing his defection to the new party, Lee stated that the Korean church was being threatened by the intrusion of homosexuality and Islamic culture. The party also promotes the restoration of laws against adultery. In a party advertisement for the 2016 parliamentary elections, actress Seo Jung-hee stated that
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Hans Knirsch


Hans Knirsch (September 14, 1877 – December 6, 1933) was an Austro-German activist from Moravia for Austrian National Socialism. After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he led the original party in Bohemia, called the Sudeten German National Socialist Party. Together with Rudolf Jung and Hans Krebs, he was one of the original core of National Socialists that remained in the Nazi Party after 1933. Hans Knirsch became a "Geschäftsführer", or managing leader, of the Mährisch-Trübauer Verband in 1901.
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Rudolf Jung


in Middle Germany, Gauleiter ad Honorem (honorary), and in 1936, Member of the Reichstag for the district of Westphalia South. In 1943, Jung became the Reich Inspector and Director of the Reich Inspection of Labour Administration. He died by suicide in Prague's Pankrác prison before his trial for Nazi activities. He wrote several books including: "Der nationale Sozialismus: seine Grundlagen, sein Werdegang und seine Ziele" (National Socialism, its Foundations, Development and Goals), Aussig, 1919. 2nd ed.;
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1996 South Korean legislative election


mandate. The opposition National Congress for New Politics was formed by veteran opposition leader Kim Dae-jung and his supporters in the Democratic Party. Kim had retired from politics following his loss in the 1992 Presidential election but formed the new party after his return in 1995. The right-wing United Liberal Democrats was led by former Prime Minister of South Korea Kim Jong-pil, a former ally of President Kim. He had been a member of the former ruling Democratic Liberal Party but broke with it after Kim's victory in
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Party of Civic Understanding


The Party of Civic Understanding (, SOP) was a centre-left political party in Slovakia between 1998 and 2003. Between 1998 and 2002 the party was part of the coalition government led by Mikuláš Dzurinda, with the founder of the party, Rudolf Schuster, being elected President of Slovakia in 1999. In government the party lost support and after the 2002 election had no seats in parliament. The party dissolved on the 1 March 2003 and recommended its members join Direction – Social Democracy (SMER). The Party of Civic
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Club of Committed Non-Party Members


The Club of Committed Non-Party Members (in Czech "Klub angažovaných nestraníků", "KAN") is a tiny liberal party in the Czech Republic co-founded by Rudolf Battěk. It was founded during the Prague Spring in May 1968 by 144 leading Czechoslovak intellectuals and prominent social figures. It was formed as an independent activist organisation with the purpose of advocating a reform program. It committed itself to human rights and civil equality, political pluralism, and the principles embodied in the UN Declaration on human rights. During
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


to the UK Conservative Party. This prompts mixed reactions from senior party figures. 4 Sep – Ruth Davidson formally announces that she will stand in the contest. 5 Sep – Murdo Fraser launches his campaign in Edinburgh. 8 Sep – Ruth Davidson launches her campaign in Edinburgh. 11 Sep – Lord Forsyth, at one point a suggested leadership candidate, declares his backing for Ruth Davidson. 23 Sep – Nominations for leadership close. Margaret Mitchell confirms she will stand in the election. 2 Oct – David Mundell MP declares his backing
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Reunification Democratic Party


the house-arrest and was barred from engaging in any political activity under the fabricated charge of "inciting rebellion" since 1981. While Kim Dae-jung was barred from engaging in any political activities, Kim Young-sam emerged as the main opposition leader. Despite the effort to present the single "democratic" candidate for the 1987 presidential election, the negotiation between two politicians broke down. Kim Dae-jung and his followers split from the Reunification Democratic Party and created the Peace Democratic Party in October 29, less than
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Peace Democratic Party


The Peace Democratic Party was a political party of South Korea from 1987 to 1991. The party was established in October 1987 by Kim Dae-jung and his followers to contest the presidential election that year. The party later merged with Democratic Party to form the Democratic Party. Following the June Struggle of 1987, and the June 29 Declaration, which promised direct, democratic election of the president in the upcoming presidential election in December of that year, speculation for the potential candidacy of Kim Dae-jung for the presidency grew.
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Rudolf Hamburger


was only in July 1955 that he was back in East Germany. Rudolf Hamburger did not fit neatly into any of the "usual categories". The Soviets did not imprison him as a prisoner of war. He had never actually been a member of the Communist Party. He was not one of those who had emigrated as a political refugee directly from Nazi Germany to Moscow in the 1930s. The unexpected delay may very well have resulted from nothing more significant that the inability of the responsible bureaucrats to decide how to classify him
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Hermann Göring


The Nazis took advantage of the fire to advance their own political aims. The Reichstag Fire Decree, passed the next day on Hitler's urging, suspended basic rights and allowed detention without trial. Activities of the German Communist Party were suppressed, and some 4,000 Party members were arrested. Göring demanded that the detainees should be shot, but Rudolf Diels, head of the Prussian political police, ignored the order. Some researchers, including William L. Shirer and Alan Bullock, are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for
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BverG v. Rieger


upon reaching the age of 68. Each member is elected by the two legislative bodies (Bundestag and Bundesrat) of Germany. Starting in 2001 an event in the honor of a prominent Nazi political figure was created and to be celebrated annually. This event was a gathering of neo-Nazi organizations and right-wing members of Germany’s Democratic Party to pay tribute to Rudolf Hess, a prominent political figure in the Nazi Regime. The gathering took place in the city in which Hess is buried (Wunsiedel) and brought together
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Lee Hong-koo


was still a sitting National Assembly member from the party, now rebranded the Grand National Party (as of November 1997). On March 24, 1998, President Kim Dae-Jung nominated Lee Hong-Koo to be South Korean Ambassador to the United States. As Lee Hong-Koo was serving in a top advisory capacity for the Grand National Party, the decision to appoint him ambassador to the U.S. was seen to signal a change in the nature of Korean politics. The Foreign Ministry explained that the nomination of a relatively
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Unified Progressive Party


The Unified Progressive Party (UPP; , RR: "Tonghap Jinbo-dang", Hanja: 統合進步黨) is a banned political party in South Korea. It was founded on 5 December 2011 as a merger of the Democratic Labor Party, the People's Participation Party of Rhyu Si-min, and a faction of the New Progressive Party. Until 12 May 2012 it was jointly chaired by Rhyu Si-min, Lee Jung-hee, and Sim Sang-jung. The UPP has proposed an alliance with the major
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Kim Hanjung


Kim Han-jung is a South Korean politician affiliated with the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea. He is a member of the Korean National Assembly representing the Namyanjgju  constituency. He began his career as press secretary for Kim Dae-Jung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, and served as the Senior Advisor to the President Kim Dae-jung of the Republic of Korea. During his time in office, he accompanied the president to the historical 2000 Inter-Korean Summit. Kim is currently a member of the Public Administration
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Most–Híd


was elected its president. It was established as an inter-ethnic Hungarian-Slovak alternative to the Party of the Hungarian Coalition. This commitment was cemented by electing Rudolf Chmel, an ethnic Slovak, as one of the party's vice presidents representing. The party seeks to represent the interests of the ethnic Hungarians while working together with the Slovaks. According to Peter Huncik about 60 to 65 percent members are Hungarians, while 35 to 40 are Slovaks. This programme and political ideology manifested itself in the party first taking part in
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Mamadou Kamara Dékamo


Director-General of SEP Development from 1984 to 1992. He became a member of the Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in 1992, and he was elected to the National Assembly as a PCT candidate from the Poto-Poto section of Brazzaville in the 1992 parliamentary election. On 25 December 1992, he was appointed as Minister of Communication, Posts, and Telecommunications, as well as Government Spokesman, in the power-sharing government of Prime Minister Claude Antoine Dacosta, which was to serve until a new
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Jerry White (socialist)


Jerome "Jerry" White (born 1959) is an American politician and journalist, and is the Labor Editor reporting for the World Socialist Web Site. He is a member of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States, and was a member of its predecessor the Workers League, joining the movement in 1979. White ran as the SEP candidate for United States President in 1996 and 2008, and again in 2012 with running mate Phyllis Scherrer. White was again the SEP presidential nominee in the 2016 election. Jarome White was
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Ferdinand Jung


moderately left-wing SPD prepared the ground for a return to one-party rule. Ferdinand Jung was one of many Communists who lost little time in signing their membership across to the resulting Socialist Unity Party (SED / "Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands"). From 1946 he was a member of the party's regional leadership for Weimar-Erfurt. From November 1948 till January 1952 Jung was in charge of the SED (party)'s Business Department in the state of Thuringia. Meanwhile, formally in October 1949, the Soviet
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Kim Geun-tae


who tortured Kim, was wanted for the crime after the political situation reversed. Kim was regarded as one of the most important activists in the democracy movement of the Republic of Korea and he went into politics on the recommendation of Kim Dae-jung in 1995. After Kim Dae-jung was elected the president of the Republic of Korea in 1997, Kim was one of candidates who could succeed Kim Dae-jung's presidency in the ruling party. Because of a low approval rating, he gave up the race for presidency
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Cläre Jung


Feuilleton Dienst", for which she would still be working, despite the intervening personal and political turmoil, till 1944. During this time, in January 1933, the NSDAP (Nazi Party) took power, which was followed by a rapid retreat from democracy in favour of one- party government. From 1933 Cläre Jung was combining her publishing work with (now illegal) anti-Nazi activism, working with Harro Schulze-Boysen and others to help Jewish and political victims of government oppression, and producing press releases on behalf of
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Rudolf Battěk


Rudolf Battěk (2 November 1924 – 17 March 2013) was a Czech sociologist, politician, and political dissident during Czechoslovakia Communist era. Battěk co-founded the Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN) in 1968, which promoted human rights. KAN was banned by the Soviet Union following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia later in 1968. Battěk was arrested and imprisoned on two occasions for activities against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. He spent ten years imprisoned by Communist authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. Battěk was
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Peace Democratic Party


The Declaration also promised amnesty to Kim Dae-jung, who was under the house-arrest and was barred from engaging in any political activity under the fabricated charge of "inciting rebellion" since 1981. While Kim Dae-jung was barred from engaging in any political activities, Kim Young-sam emerged as the main opposition leader. Despite the effort to present the single "democratic" candidate for the 1987 presidential election, the negotiation between two politicians broke down. Kim Dae-jung and his followers split from the Reunification
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Jungdeutsche Partei


Jungdeutsche Partei in Polen (JDP), or the Young German Party in Poland (), was a Nazi German extreme right-wing political party founded in 1931 by members of the ethnic German minority residing in the Second Polish Republic. The party was opposed not only to collaboration with Poland, but also, with other German organizations in Poland. Its leader was Rudolf Wiesner (pictured, fourth from the left), a committed Nazi. He was replaced by Max Wambeck from NSDAP on 22 November 1938. After the invasion
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Paul Lejeune-Jung


party, however, did not fare well in the September 1930 election, having only four members returned. Lejeune-Jung, who won no seat, temporarily took up management, but then on 11 June 1932, he joined the Centre Party, with whose right wing he had already had ties even before 1920. Chancellor Heinrich Brüning had already named Lejeune-Jung as an expert to the German-French Economic Commission in 1931. In the analysis of German-French economic relationships, which Lejeune-Jung undertook in a chronicle
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Margot Pfannstiel


power and members of the East German political leadership who he believed had questioned his suitability for political survival were removed from positions of power or influence. Two of these were Wilhelm Zaisser and the managing editor of Neues Deutschland, Rudolf Herrnstadt. Margot Pfannstiel found herself identified as a member of the "Party-enemy Zaisser-Herrnstadt Group": she was removed from Neues Deutschland. The weekly news magazine was launched in December 1953. Pfannenstiel was a co-founder and chief reporter. In 1958 she took over from as managing
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Otto Junge


Carlos Otto Junge (1887, Concepción, Chile – 1978, Germany) was a Chilean–German chess master. He was Chilean Champion in 1922. The Junge family moved from Chile to Germany in 1930. They lived in Hamburg, and played (father and son) in "Hamburger Schachklub" in 1930s. Carlos Otto Junge became a member of NSDAP (German Nazi Party) in 1932. He was the father of Klaus Junge. Dr Otto Junge was a chairman of "Allgemeiner Turn- und Sportverein Cuxhaven" in 1930
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Junge Akademie


and are to “act as a critical observer and advisor of the Junge Akademie, providing ideas and constructive criticism within the framework of specific projects and encouraging or posing questions to the Junge Akademie’s members”. They are also responsible for supporting projects at the interface between academia on the one hand and politics, the economy, and culture on the other. Since 2011, the Junge Akademie is no longer a project, but an independent institution. Its budget is permanently integrated in the overall budget of the Leopoldina. The Junge
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Ursula Männle


. She remained professionally involved with the academy till 2009. Ursula Männle became a member of the centre-right CSU (Bavarian political party) in 1964. During 1966/67 she served as regional president of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten (""Association of Christian Democratic Students"" / RCDS). Between 1973 and 1977 Männle was deputy chair of the "Junge Union" (JU), the youth wing of West Germany's centre-right CDU and CSU parties. Then, between 1981 and 1991, she was
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Maki (historical political party)


the pro-Soviet Labour Zionist party Mapam to break with the Soviet Union. Unhappy at the decision, Mapam members Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction before joining Maki. The party was also involved in the fall of Moshe Sharett's fifth government, when it and Herut brought a motion of no confidence over the government's position on the trial of Malkiel Gruenwald, who had accused Rudolf Kastner of collaborating with the Nazis. In the 1955 election, Maki's share of the vote increased again
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Anna Tieke


To judge from the birth dates of their children, it was around 1915 that she married Rudolf Tieke (1895 – 1989), a gardener who later took work in the chemicals industry. During the 1920s his political activities and affiliations were broadly similar to hers. Between 1917 and 1922 she was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party (""Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands"" / USPD) which had broken away from the mainstream Social Democratic Party in 1917, primarily because of rejection of the decision of the party leadership
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Rudolf Bahro


Rudolf Bahro (November 18, 1935 – December 5, 1997) was a dissident from East Germany who, since his death, has been recognised as a philosopher, political figure and author. Bahro was a leader of the West German party The Greens, but became disenchanted with its political organization, left the party and explored spiritual approaches to sustainability. Bahro was the eldest of three children of Max Bahro, a livestock-industry consultant, and Irmgard Bahro (née Conrad). Until 1945, the family lived in Lower
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Rudolf Heinze


Leipzig. In 1914, he became a "Reichsgerichtsrat". In 1900, Heinze married Anna (1863-1948) née Hotop. They had three sons and a daughter. Heinze began his political career in 1899, when he became a "Stadtverordneter" (member of the city council) at Leipzig. From 1903 he was an unsalaried "Stadtrat" (member of the city government) in Dresden. From 1907 to 1912, he held a seat in the Reichstag for the National Liberal Party where he was a member
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Rudolf Lindau (politician)


the Communist Party. Rudolf Lindau's own political convictions continued to draw him towards left-wing of the party, but through the period of fragmentation that was a feature of the German Communist Party during the 1920s he nevertheless managed to remain within the recognized boundaries the party mainstream, polling more votes than any other candidate in elections to the Party Executive at the 1923 Party Conference. Lindau was arrested in May 1924, following his participation in the Hamburg Uprising: he was held in investigative detention till December 1925. After this he
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National Socialist Program


at a DAP congress in Vienna, then was taken to Munich, by the civil engineer and theoretician Rudolf Jung, who having explicitly supported Hitler had been expelled from Czechoslovakia because of his political agitation. Historian Karl Dietrich Bracher summarizes the program by saying that its components were "hardly new" and that "German, Austrian, and Bohemian proponents of anti-capitalist, nationalist-imperialist, anti-Semitic movements were resorted to in its compilation," but that a call to "breaking the shackles of finance capital" was
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Kim Dae-jung


the Grand National Party). Many thought Kim Dae-jung's political career was effectively over when he took a hiatus from politics and departed for the United Kingdom to take a position at Clare Hall, Cambridge University as a visiting scholar. However, in 1995 he announced his return to politics and began his fourth quest for the presidency. The situation became favorable for him when the public revolted against the incumbent government in the wake of the nation's economic collapse in the Asian financial crisis just weeks before the presidential election.
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Lee Jung-hee


Democratic Labor Party (merged in 2011 with other parties to form the Unified Progressive Party). She was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2008. In 2008 she was Vice Leader of Democratic Labor Party and next year was elected as the Democratic Labor Party's leader. Lee Jung-hee was the UPP candidate for the 2012 presidential election. Hoping to damage the popular votes of the Conservative party candidate, she withdrew from the 2012 presidential election on Sunday, December 16, 2012. However, her action is
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Ji Sang-wook


Ji Sang-wook (; born 16 May 1965) is a South Korean academic and politician in the conservative Bareun Party. He is currently a member of the National Assembly for Jung-gu and Seongdong-gu, Seoul, and was previously head of the party's district organization in Jung-gu. Before joining the Saenuri Party, Ji was formerly a spokesman for the Liberty Forward Party, and ran as that party's candidate for Mayor of Seoul in 2010. He was nominated again for the post in 2011 but withdrew
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Politics of East Germany


-SED political parties allowed to operate in East Germany. The four non-SED deputy chairmen were the minister of posts and telecommunications - Rudolf Schulze of the CDU; the minister of environmental protection and water management - Hans Reichelt of the DBD; the minister of justice - Hans-Joachim Heusinger of the LDPD; and the chairman of the State Contract Court - Manfred Flegel of the NDPD. The other five positions held by deputy chairman on the Presidium of the Council of Ministers were occupied by members of the Central Committee of
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Rudolf Wolters


at the GBI office in January 1937 as a Head of Department in the Planning Bureau. Wolters was one of a number of young, well-paid assistants of Speer at the GBI, who were collectively nicknamed "Speer's Kindergarten". Most of the Kindergarteners were not Nazi Party members, since Speer found that Party duties interfered with working time, and the Kindergarten was expected to work long hours. Speer had Hitler's permission to hire non-Nazis, so the GBI became something of a political sanctuary. Wolters later
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


The Scottish Democratic Alliance (SDA) is a political organisation formed in 2009 as the successor to the Scottish Enterprise Party (SEP). It supports Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. Although it evolved from a political party, the SDA spent some time operating as a think tank on current affairs in Scotland. It stood its first candidate for election in the 2013 Aberdeen Donside by-election, coming last with 35 votes (0.1%). The SDA favours a low-tax Scotland independent of both the EU
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Chang Sŏng-min


Chang Sŏng-min (; born 5 September 1963) is a South Korean politician. He was formerly the president of the Grand National United Party. Chang was born in Goheung County, South Jeolla Province. He started his political career under former president Kim Dae-jung. He was elected to the National Assembly as a member of Millennium Democratic Party in 2000, but lost in 2002 due to his violation of election law. In 2012, he became one of the hosts of the television show "Chang Sŏng-min's
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Frederic Spiegelberg


Frederic Spiegelberg (May 24, 1897 – November 10, 1994) was a Stanford University professor of Asian religions. Spiegelberg was born into a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany, in 1897 and earned his doctorate at the University of Tübingen in 1922. He went on to earn a theological degree from the German Lutheran Church. He studied with theologians Rudolf Otto and Paul Tillich, the philosopher Martin Heidegger, and the psychologist Carl Jung. He participated in Jung's Eranos symposia and lectured at Jung's institute in Zurich. In
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Franz Josef Jung


title Dr. jur. (i.e. PhD in Law). In his political career, he held various party functions in Hesse (currently as vice chairman of the CDU there) and also served as a state minister. As Minister-President Roland Koch's chief of staff in the Hesse chancellery, Jung resigned amid the CDU donations scandal in 2000. Even before entering the Bundestag, Jung was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004. Following
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Rudolf Battěk


a signatory of Charter 77, which criticized the Communist regime for rejecting human rights. He also joined the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted. In 1989, Battěk re-entered politics following the Velvet Revolution. He joined the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), but was expelled from the party in June 1990. Battěk became a member of the Association of Social Democrats after his expulsion from the ČSSD. In 1993, the leadership of the ČSSD reversed its original decision to expel Battěk and invited him to rejoin
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German Progress Party


federal election of 1871, the party gained 8.8% of the votes cast and 46 seats in the Reichstag parliament, largely outnumbered by its National Liberal rivals. Later on, the Progressives approached towards the policy of the new Chancellor. To characterize Bismarck's politics toward the Catholic Church, the pathologist and parliament member Rudolf Virchow used the term "Kulturkampf" the first time on 17 January 1873 in the Prussian House of Representatives. In the later years of Bismarck's incumbency, the Progressives again kept their distance to his government.
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Rudolf Slánský


were being used as scapegoats for shortages and economic problems), which had allowed Gottwald and his ally Antonín Zápotocký, both populists, to tar him with charges of belonging to the bourgeoisie. Slánský and his allies were also opposed by old-time party members, the government, and the party’s Political Bureau. In prison after his arrest, Slánský was tortured and he attempted suicide. The trial of the 14 national leaders began on 20 November 1952, in the Senate of the State Court, with the prosecutor being Josef
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Reichstag (North German Confederation)


19 members of the Progressive Party. The anti-Prussian democratically-oriented Saxon People's Party was represented by August Bebel and Reinold Schraps. Eduard von Simson, who already held the position of President in the Frankfurt Parliament and later in the Reichstag of the German Empire, became Reichstag President (). August Bebel later wrote in his memoirs that ""the elite of the North German political and parliamentary luminaries"" had been assembled in the Parliament. These included: Rudolf von Bennigsen, Karl Braun of Hessen-Nassau
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Ferdinand Jung


occupation zone became the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic, many of its constitutional arrangements directly modeled on those of the Soviet Union itself. An important feature of the country's power structure was the "leading role" of the party which meant that both at the national and regional levels, administrators and ministers (who were generally already party members) were expected to carry out party policy. Decisions came from the party, party power being ever more firmly centralised in Berlin. Ferdinand Jung retained his party post in Thuringia until 1952 when
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Rudolf Lindau (politician)


apparatus, involved with titles such as the "Kommunistische Arbeiterzeitung", the "Kommunistische Pressekorrespondenz" and the "Bergische Arbeiterstimme". Between 1921 and 1924, and again in 1927/28 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament during a politically turbulent decade in the city. In May 1924 Lindau also became, till December 1924, a member of the National Legislature (Reichstag), taking the place of when the latter was forced to withdraw his name from the party list on finding himself on the losing side in a split within
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Cläre Jung


Schwab and Bernhard Reichenbach) as part of the bewildering political splintering that was a feature of left-wing politics in Germany at the time. In August 1921 she traveled to Moscow with Franz Jung. The previous year he had visited Lenin, arriving in May 1920 with party comrade Jan Appel. Travel between two states in revolutionary turmoil was not without its challenges. In the absence of regular rail links, a Hamburg-based Communist called Herrmann Knüfgen was able to smuggle the men onto a steam boat called "Senator Schröder"
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Sul Hoon


dictatorship protests. At this time, he met Kim Dae-jung, who then became the President of the country. Sul Hoon started his political career in 1985, as a secretary of Kim Dae-jung. He firstly ran as the candidate of Peace Democratic Party in 1988 at Seongbuk District's 1st constituency, but defeated by independent candidate Lee Chul. He did not participate for the general election in 1992. During the general election in 1996, Sul Hoon was the candidate from National Congress for New Politics at Dobong District
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Roh Moo-hyun


for the mayorship of Busan in 1995, where he lost again. Shortly after the election, Kim Dae-jung founded the National Congress for New Politics, but Roh did not join. In 1996, he ran for the Assembly seat for Jung-gu in Seoul, losing to another future president, Lee Myung-bak. Roh founded the new party with Lee Bu-Yeong, Lee Chul, Kim Won-Gi, and Kim Jeong-Gil, but before the presidential election, after the Democratic Liberal Party merged
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Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)


The Democratic Labor Party (DLP, often KDLP) was a left-wing nationalist political party in South Korea. It was founded in January 2000, in the effort to create a political wing for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and was considered more left-wing and more independent of the two union federations in South Korea. Its party president was Lee Jung-hee and its assembly leader Kang Gi-gap, who is twice-elected congressman. In December 2011, the party merged into the Unified Progressive Party.
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Rudolf Hamburger


or "elsewhere", without spelling out more detail, beyond the high level statement that he was "active in the anti-fascist movement" and had been accepted for membership by the Party Central Committee. Rudolf Hamburger was accepted as a full party member in March 1958. Rudolf Hamburger made his home in Dresden. Important projects he directed while employed by the city authorities in Dresden included the "Industry Project II" (""Industrieprojektierung Dresden II"") (1956) and the Reed Processing Collective in Romania (
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Bert Lundin


he replaced Åke Nilsson as leader of the organization. A dedicated socialist, Lundin at the conference of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1976, advocated for a more radical version of employee funds for collective ownership of companies than Rudolf Meidner had proposed. As deputy leader and leader of the largest union within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation he had signicant political influence through the union's close relationship with the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He was a member of the executive board (verkställande utskott) of the Social Democratic Party from 1975 to
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Wong Foon Sien


by one author to have connections to membership in the Liberal Party of Canada, and his "wide acquaintance with mainstream journalists and leaders of other minority groups". He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958. Jung became the first Chinese Canadian Member of Parliament. In 1944, he drafted and signed a petition with Gordon Won Cumyow, Esther Fung, Ann Chian, Joe Leong, Henry Lee, and Andrew Lam as members
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Lee Jung-hyun (politician)


Lee Jung-hyun (born 1 September 1958) is a South Korean politician. He is a member of the National Assembly and the delegate of Saenuri Party. He is also known as the first Jeolla Province born delegate of the conservative Saenuri Party since democratization in the 1980s, and widely regarded to have broken the regional discrimination in his Gyeongsang Province-oriented party as the party's first chairman from Jeolla regions. He is also regarded as one of President Park's closet aides, and this has stirred substantial unease recently during
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


Norway to promote tourism. The Scottish Enterprise Party was a centre-right political party in Scotland which supported Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. It was formed in July 2004 to provide an alternative to the largely social democratic Scottish National Party for centre-right voters who support independence. The party opposed Scottish membership of the European Union and any prospective membership of the euro; it supported the principle of a constitutional monarchy and elections conducted through the Single Transferable Vote. The SEP backed the constitutional view that parliamentary sovereignty does
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Ferdinand Jung


Ferdinand Jung (24 January 1905 – 2 December 1973) was a German Communist activist who resisted the Nazi government in the 1930s and spent a good deal of time in prisons and concentration camps. In later life he found himself in the political mainstream in his country's second one-party dictatorship and became a senior politician. Jung was born early in the twentieth century into a working-class family in Waltershausen, a small manufacturing town in south-central Germany which since 1815 had built up a reputation as a centre for
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Alternative for Germany


. Outside the Berlin hotel where the party held its inaugural meeting, it has been alleged that copies of "Junge Freiheit", a weekly that is also popular with the far-right were being handed out. The "Rheinische Post" pointed out that some AfD members and supporters write for the conservative paper "Junge Freiheit". There was also a protest outside the venue of the party’s inaugural meeting by Andreas Storr, a National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) representative in the Landtag of Saxony, as the
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Rudolf Margolius


Stalinist Slánský trial. Margolius was accused of being a member of the “anti-party conspiratorial centre,” and was sentenced to death along with former Party Secretary Rudolf Slánský and nine others on November 27, 1952. Slánský and the others were judicially rehabilitated by the Supreme Court in 1963. All had been accused of high treason, espionage and sabotage and organizing a Jewish plot to bring down the régime. A memorial plaque dedicated to Rudolf Margolius is located on the family tomb at New Jewish Cemetery, Izraelská 1, Prague
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Ahn Hee-jung


Security Planning and was imprisoned for 10 months after being convicted of the involvement in the youth-led rallies motivated by anti-American sentiment. Starting from January 1989, Ahn Hee-jung worked as an aide to lawmaker Kim Deok-ryong of the Reunification Democratic Party. On 1 January 1990, Kim Young-sam led the three-party-merger supported by seven political leaders: Lee Ki-taek; Kim Jeong-gil; Jang Seok-hwa; Park Chan-jong; Hong Sa-deok; Lee
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Roh Moo-hyun


with the Unified Democratic Party, he decided to reconcile with Kim Dae-jung to 'bring the military government and their political heir into justice'. Subsequently, Roh reconciled with Kim when he endorsed his candidacy in the 1997 Presidential election. At the meeting, Kim Dae-jung welcomed Roh and his party saying "Today is a very pleasant day. That pleasure is not only because we now work together, but also because I could relieve a burden in my mind that I have been carrying (since we separated)
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Juan Manuel Galán Pachón


, D.C. In 1997, he returned to Colombia after eight years abroad, and quickly took the mantle of politics left by his father. He backed Rudolf Hommes Rodríguez against his uncle Antonio Galán Sarmiento in the mayoral race for Bogotá, which caused a great deal of controversy, and he went on to disavow former associates of his father for abusing the memory of his father and using his image for political gains, which infuriated members of the New Liberalism party, which his father had founded. He further moved to the right of
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