Background
Ludwig Marum was born on 5 November 1882 to a lower-middle-class Jewish merchant"s family in the town of Frankenthal in southwestern Germany.
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Ludwig Marum
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He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1914 and after the 1918 revolution in Baden was briefly Justice Minister in the new Republic of Baden. By 1922 Marum was the only notable Jew in any state government. The Social Democratic Party of Germany itself was banned by the Nazis on June 22, 1933.
Marum was murdered at Kislau by the Steamship in the night of 28–29 March 1934.
Membership
In 1928 Ludwig Marum was elected member of the Reichstag (German Parliament) for Karlsruhe. After the Reichstag fire and the passing of the Enabling Acting of 1933, Marum was publicly deported to the Kislau concentration camp on 16 May 1933 together with six other Social Democratic Party of Germany members of the Karlsruhe Landtag.
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Political Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany