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Günther Weisenborn
Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was a German writer and fighter in the German Resistance against Nazism.
Life and work.
Weisenborn was born in Velbert and grew up in Opladen. In the early 1920s, he worked freelance for the local newspaper, the "Opladener Zeitung". He attended the Universities of Cologne, Bonn and Berlin, studying German studies and medicine. On finishing his education, he began acting in local theaters in 1927 and in 1928, became a dramaturge
reinstated under authority from the Soviet occupation forces in the eastern part of Berlin, now as a division of the Free German Trade Union Federation, and Birkenfeld was installed as a member of its executive. He retained this function, as the political and economic division of the city (and of the country) progressively became more visible and permanent, till 1949. In his approach to former Nazis, Birkenfeld took a hard line. This was on display in the "Hausmann debate" in April 1947 at which Günther Weisenborn argued for