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Alfred Kubel
Alfred Kubel (25 May 1909 in Braunschweig – 22 May 1999 in Bad Pyrmont) was a German politician; in his later career, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
In 1928, after attending Middle School, Kubel became an industrial clerk. He had, in 1925, joined a trade union and the "Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund", a left-wing political party, and in 1933 he became active in resistance to the Nazis. Kubel was arrested in 1937 and was
members then joined the SPD.
One prominent member of the ISK, Ludwig Gehm, was later the national vice chairman of the Committee of Formerly Persecuted Social Democrats ("Arbeitsgemeinschaft ehemals verfolgter Sozialdemokraten") and a Frankfurt am Main city council member from the SPD. Eichler, who was chairman of the ISK for many years, represented the SPD in the Bundestag from 1949 to 1953 and is considered one of the main authors of the Godesberg Program. Alfred Kubel was a member of the Lower Saxony state government for many years