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Which party was Georg Wendt a member of from 1907 to 1908?
Georg Wendt Georg Wendt ( 23 April 1889 – 11 February 1948 ) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) . Life . Wendt was born in Köslin in 1889 . After completing Volksschule , Wendt completed an apprenticeship as a glazier and was additionally taught at the Fortbildungsschule . Subsequently , he worked as a glaziers assistant . In 1910 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and in 1912 was married . From March 1915 to 1918 , Wendt took part in World War I . In 1918 , Wendt was obliged to give up his old profession because of medical condition sustained during the war . From then on , he worked as an office worker at the Ortskrankenkasse , starting in 1921 at the district office of Wedding . After the November Revolution of 1918 , Wendt temporarily joined the Independent Social Democratic Party ( USPD ) , a breakaway party composed of left-wing SPD members . From 1919 to 1920 , Wendt was a member of the provincial parliament of Brandenburg . In the years 1921 to 1929 he was also a district and city councillor in Berlin . Since 1925 , he had served as a city councillor-at-large in the Berlin district of Schöneberg , where he belonged to the SPD district council . In the federal election of May 1928 , Wendt was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate for the SPD for the electoral district 3 ( Potsdam II ) , a position which he held until the September 1930 election . After a two-year absence from the parliament , Wendt returned to the Reichstag for his old constituency with the Reichstag election in July 1932 . From July 1932 , Wendt was also party secretary of the SPD for the district of Berlin-Schöneberg . After the Nazi seizure of power in the spring of 1933 , Wendt was arrested and placed in protective custody from July to December 1933 in the Brandenburg concentration camp . From 1934 to 1943 , Wendt made a living as the owner of a coal business in Berlin-Steglitz . During these years , Wendt and his family were subjected to routine harassment by the Nazi regime , including the removal of their arbour owing to lack of proper attitude . In these years he was supported by , among others , Paul Löbe and Julius Leber , among others , in whose coal company Wendt occasionally found shelter . In 1944 , Wendt reported to the Wehrmacht in order to protect himself against the wave of arrests of politicians from the Weimar Republic launched by the Nazi regime . After the war , Wendt rejoined the SPD . In 1946 , he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) . Memorials . In Berlin since 1992 , Wendts name appears on one of the 96 plaques in the Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag , on the corner of Scheidemannstraße / Republic Square in Berlin near the Reichstag building .