Siegfried Taub (1876,

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– 1946) was a Sudeten German

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ish politician from

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. Taub was the general secretary of German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP) from 1924.Brandes, Detlef.
Grossbritannien und seine osteuropäischen Alliierten 1939-1943: die Regierungen Polens, der Tschechoslowakei und Jugoslawiens im Londoner Exil vom Kriegsausbruch bis zur Konferenz von Teheran
'. Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, 59. München: Oldenburg, 1988. p. 57 He belonged to the

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n triumvirate, with party chairman

Ludwig Czech Ludwig Czech (14 February 1870 – 20 August 1942) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic who actively participated in the Czechoslovak politics of the so-called Firs ...

and newspaper editor Wilhelm Niessner, that came to dominate the party leadership from the mid-1920s. Taub served as deputy speaker of the Czechoslovak parliament.McKay, C. G.
From Information to Intrigue: Studies in Secret Service, Based on the Swedish Experience, 1939-45
'. Cass series--studies in intelligence. London: F. Cass, 1993. p. 125 Taub represented DSAP in the Executive of the

Labour and Socialist International The Labour and Socialist International (LSI; german: Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale, label= German, SAI) was an international organization of socialist and labour parties, active between 1923 and 1940. The group was established through a ...

between February 1930 and 1938. During the beginning of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, Taub was in exile in Sweden. In 1941, he moved to the

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. Taub left behind the archives of the Sudeten German social democrats, which were later recovered and donated to the Swedish Labor Movement Archive and Library.http://www.arbark.se/wib/german-speaking-emigres-papers-in-arabs-stores.pdf

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