Draft:Social Democratic Party of Baden

The Social Democratic Party of Baden

History
The first Social Democrats elected to office were members of the city council of Mannheim in the 1878 election.

The party was weak in northern Baden and only received around 1% in elections up to 1905.

de:Adolf Geck, the godson of Amand Goegg, joined the SPD in 1882.

Wilhelm Kolb opposed the SPD's support for World War I while Oskar Geck defended it. In April 1917, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany broke away from the SPD. 600 people assembled in Mannheim in May to form the USPD in Baden. Adolf Geck, a SPD member of the Landtag that joined the USPD, claimed they had 100 members in Baden. The USPD was reported to have 6,500 members by February 1919.