Carlo Mierendorff
Carlo Mierendorff | |
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Mierendorff c. 1932 | |
| Member of the Reichstag | |
| In office 13 October 1930 – 22 June 1933 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 March 1897 Großenhain, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire |
| Died | 4 December 1943 (aged 46) Leipzig, Nazi Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
Carlo Mierendorff (24 March 1897 – 4 December 1943) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. An intellectual activist and regional politician in the People's State of Hesse, he played a major role in the propaganda of the SPD and the anti-fascist Iron Front during the last years of the republic. He was elected to the Reichstag in 1930. After the Nazi rise to power, he was arrested and spent several years in concentration camps before being released in 1938. He then helped organise the underground resistance to the Nazi regime until his death in December 1943 in an Allied air raid on Leipzig.