Max Sievers

Max Georg Wilhelm Sievers (11 June 1887 in Tempelhof, Berlin – 17 January 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel) was chairman of the German Freethinkers League, writer and active communist, later social democrat.

Max Sievers opposed the first world war and was an unwilling participant[1] and suffered an arm injury in 1915.

He became a socialist, editing the Arbeiter-Rats (German: 'Workers' Council') and joining the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) by 1919 among other things.

However, the group began falling apart, and by 1927 Sievers had joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

[4] He was arrested on 3 June 1943 by the Gestapo, sentenced on 17 November 1943 to death by the Volksgerichtshof, with a former Marxist, Roland Freisler, presiding, for "conspiracy to commit high treason along with favouring the enemy", and beheaded at the guillotine on 17 January 1944 at Brandenburg Prison.