Wilhelm Leuschner

Wilhelm Leuschner (15 June 1890, in Bayreuth, Bavaria – 29 September 1944, in Berlin-Plötzensee) was a trade unionist and Social Democratic politician. He was an early opponent of Nazism. After the Machtergreifung of the Nazi regime in 1933, he organized underground resistance in the labour movement. He was one of the members of the 20 July 1944 plot that attempted the assassination of Hitler, was denunciated, arrested the same day, sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof (presided over by Roland Freisler) and executed.