About Gustav Neuring
Lived 1879 – 1919 (aged 39). Gustav Neuring was a German politician.
Gustav Neuring (14 September 1879 – 12 April 1919) was a German politician. He died in a lynching.
Neuring was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Following the German Revolution he served as the war minister (Kriegsminister) of the Free State of Saxony (Der Freistaat Sachsen). On 12 April 1919, during the German Revolution in Saxony, a mob of war veterans, upset by rumours that their war pensions would be cut, threw him into the river Elbe in Dresden. When he tried to get back into the riverbank, Neuring was shot.
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Who was Gustav Neuring?
German politician (1879-1919)
When was Gustav Neuring born?
Gustav Neuring was born on 14 September 1879 in Harburg.
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Gustav Neuring died on 12 April 1919 in Dresden.
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Gustav Neuring was a politician.
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Gustav Neuring was German.
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