Max Sievers
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Max Sievers (born 11 June 1887 in Berlin; died 17 January 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel) was chairman of the German Freethinkers' League.
He was arrested on 3 June 1943 by the Gestapo, sentenced on 17 November 1943 to death by the Volksgerichtshof, with 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.
