Hans Vogel

Hans Vogel (16 February 1881 – 6 October 1945) was a German politician and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) along with Arthur Crispien and Otto Wels from 1931 to 1933.

After attending the Volkshochschule in Fürth, Vogel, the son of a merchant and shoemaker, completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor assistant in 1897.

After the Machtergreifung in January 1933, Vogel first went to Saarbrücken, because it was administered by the League of Nations at that time, and then on 2 June he moved on to Prague.

In 1938 he moved to Paris and there he helped build up the Sopade, of which he was the sole chairman after Wels's death in 1939.

In 1939 he fled to London and became the chairman of the Union of German Socialist Organisations in Great Britain.