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1886 – 1944Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944)Died 18 August 1944, aged 58Leader of the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic and a presidential candidate in 1925 and 1932. He was arrested in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years. He was shot at Buchenwald on Hitler's orders.