Heinrich Schmitt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinrich Schmitt

German politician

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1895

Place of Birth: Waldbüttelbrunn, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1951

Profession: politician, resistance fighter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Heinrich Schmitt (6 October 1895 – 13 August 1951) was a German politician.
In 1928 he was elected to the national Reichstag, where he sat as a Communist member.
In 1933 he escaped with his family to the Soviet Union.
The next year he infiltrated back into Germany with false papers.
He was arrested in 1935, but survived ten years in detention, re-emerging in 1945 as a leading regional politician in occupied Bavaria.
He left the Communist party in 1947.