Arthur Crispien

Arthur Crispien
Crispien c. 1930
Chairman of the
Social Democratic Party of Germany
In office
September 1922  March 1933
Serving with Otto Wels
Chairman of the
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
In office
March 1919  September 1922
Serving with Hugo Haase (1919) and Ernst Däumig (1919–1922)
Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of the
Free People's State of Württemberg
In office
11 November 1918  10 January 1919
Member of the Reichstag
for Berlin
In office
24 June 1920  22 June 1933
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born(1875-11-04)4 November 1875
Königsberg, East Prussia, German Empire
Died29 November 1946(1946-11-29) (aged 71)
Bern, Switzerland
Political partySPD (1894–1917, 1922–1933)
USPD (1917–1922)
Swiss Socialist Party
SpouseBerta Ranglack
Children3
OccupationPainter, journalist

Arthur Crispien (4 November 1875 – 29 November 1946) was a German Social Democratic politician.

He was co-chairman and member of the Reichstag for the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, USPD, from 1920 - 1922. He was co-chairman and member of the Reichstag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD, from 1922 to 1933.