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Albert Hackelsberger

Albert Hackelsberger (17 October 1893 – 25 September 1940) was a German businessman and politician during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He sat as a deputy in the Reichstag for the German Center Party and, after its dissolution, as a "guest" of the Nazi faction in the Greater German Reichstag. His commitment to the Catholic Church and his support for a Jesuit college engendered the hostility of the Nazi regime. Arrested by the Gestapo in September 1938, he died two years later in unclear circumstances while still in custody.

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