1979-2001 Kurt Schumacher Deutschemark 2

Coin 2 Deutsche Mark, 4th series
Metal Magnimat (3-layered material)
Top layer Copper-nickel alloy
Diameter 26.75 mm
Width 1.79 mm
Mass 7.00 g
Core Nickel
Picture Professor Dr Theodor Heuss
Edge "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (unity, justice and freedom)
Design Karl-Ulrich Nuss, Strümpfelbach/Württ. (picture side), Reinhart Heinsdorff, Lehen/Württ. (denomination side)
In circulation since 1973

Other Coins in Series

1957–1971: Max Planck
1969–1987: Konrad Adenauer
1970–1987: Theodor Heuss
1979–2001: Kurt Schumacher
1988–2001: Ludwig Erhard
1990–1994: Franz Josef Strauß
1994–2001: Willy Brandt

Kurt Schumacher

Kurt Schumacher (13 October 1895 – 20 August 1952), was a German social democratic politician, who served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and was the first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag from 1949 until his death. An opponent of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government, but an even stronger opponent of the East German Socialist Unity Party and communism in general, he was one of the founding fathers of post-war German democracy. He was also a noted opponent of the far-right and the far-left, i.e. the Nazi Party and the Communist Party of Germany, during the Weimar Republic, and is famous for his description of the communists as "red-painted Nazis."[2] He spent over ten years in Nazi concentration camps, where he was severely mistreated.

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