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Erich Zeigner

1886–1949 · 20th century

Erich Zeigner was a Social Democratic lawyer who became minister-president of the Free State of Saxony in 1923. In October that year he took Communists into his government, and the Reich government under Gustav Stresemann sent troops into Saxony and removed him by decree. Persecuted under the Nazis, he became mayor of Leipzig in 1945 and held the office until his death.

Erich Zeigner
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Free State of Saxony

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