Werner Scholem

1895 - 1940

Werner Scholem

German communist politician.

Was Werner Scholem Jewish?
Yes, Werner Scholem was Jewish.
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Leading member of the Communist Party of Germany.

Scholem was a member of the German Reichstag from 1924 to 1928. He was arrested by the Nazis when they took power in 1933, deported to Buchenwald in 1938, and later executed by the SS along with Ernst Heilmann, another Jewish former Reichstag member.

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1895: A Jew who would thanklessly head Germany’s Communist Party is born
Source: Haaretz
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2016
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Gershom Scholem’s Brother
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2025
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Werner Scholem, a Jewish Communist Murdered by the Nazis
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2020
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