1994 Event Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election 1987 Event West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns 1972 Event Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election 1969 Event SPD wins West German Parliament elections 1963 Death Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62 1952 Death Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies 1941 Death Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 1939 Death Philipp Scheidemann, German MP (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies at 74 1933 Event German social-democratic party, SPD, forbidden 1931 Event German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism 1926 Birthday Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats, SPD 1925 Event Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg 1923 Event Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD 1923 Event Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon 1920 Birthday Georg Leber, German politician, SPD 1920 Event Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD) 1919 Death Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 1919 Event Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1918 Birthday Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany, SPD, 1974- 1906 Birthday Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD 1901 Birthday Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, SPD 1895 Birthday Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman, SPD, 1865 Birthday Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament, SPD, mayor of Kassel
