Rudolf
Breitscheild was born in Colone, Germany
in 1874. After earning a doctorate in political economy he worked
as a newspaper editor. In 1912 he joined the Social
Democratic Party (SDP) and founded the Socialistische
Auslanddspolitik (renamed Der
Sozialist) in 1919.
After the war he joined
the Independent Socialist Party and as a
member of the provisional government of Prussia during the German
Revolution.
Breitscheild fled to France
after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933.
He was handed over to the Gestapo by
the Vichy authorities in 1941. Rudolf Breitscheild
died in Buchenwald Concentration Camp
in 1944.
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