Helmut Brandt (CDU politician in East Germany), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German politician (1911-1998)
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Place of Birth: Spandau, Berlin, Germany
About Helmut Brandt (CDU politician in East Germany)
- Helmut Alfred Brandt (16 July 1911 - 31 October 1998) was a Berlin city councillor and a leading German politician in the Christian Democratic Union (Christlich-Demokratische Union / CDU), a political party of the centre right.After 1945 the eastern part of Berlin, where Brandt lived and worked, was administered as the Soviet occupation zone of what had been Germany.
- By 1949, when the occupation zone was relaunched as the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), it was in the process of becoming a second German one-party dictatorship.
- Helmut Brandt opposed manifestations of this development: he was ousted from his job with the ministry of Justice and his position as a member of the CDU party leadership team.
- On 6 September 1950 he was arrested, although he would have to wait another four years for any sort of trial.
- He was accused of activities hostile to the state ("staatsfeindlicher Arbeit") and he spent the years between 1950 and 1964 in prison.
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