Herbert Wehner
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Herbert Richard Wehner (July 11, 1906 - January 19, 1990) was a German politician.
He was a member of the German Communist Party (KPD) as a young man. Between 1933 and 1935 he participated in the communist resistance against the National Socialist (Nazi) regime. In 1935 he went into exile in Moscow. After being sent to Sweden on party business in 1941, he was arrested and interned in 1942.
Upon his return to Germany in 1946, Wehner joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 1949 he became a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and remained an elected member until his retirement from politics in 1983. During his tenure in the Bundestag Wehner got famous for his insulting and comment making of other members speeches. He got the outstanding and by wide advance record of 79 reprisals by the presidents of the Bundestag.
Wehner died in 1990 in Bonn, Germany after a long illness.
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