Wolfgang Heine (1861 to 1944) was a German jurist and social democratic politician, born in Posen, the son of a grammar school teacher. He studied natural sciences and law at Breslau, Tübingen and Berlin, worked as a lawyer in Berlin and joined the SPD in 1884. He was elected to the Reichstag in 1898, at first for Berlin and from 1912 for Anhalt, and sat in the Weimar National Assembly. After the First World War he became Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt and Prussian Minister of the Interior and then of Justice, and he lost his place in the Prussian government after criticism of his attempt to negotiate during the Kapp Putsch of March 1920. From 1923 to 1925 he was a judge at the Staatsgerichtshof, the German state court, and he continued to work as a lawyer in Berlin. He fled to Switzerland when the Nazi regime began and died in Ascona.
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was a German jurist and social democratic politician
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was a German jurist and social democratic politician
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He worked as a lawyer in Berlin
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He was elected a member of the Reichstag in 1898
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