People of the Revolution and the USSR
Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
Background: Germany
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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GlossaryCommunist Party of Germany (KPD)
- Robert Emil Eichhorn Robert Emil Eichhorn German Social Democratic and Independent Social Democratic politician who headed Berlin police in 1918
- Ernst Friedrich Däumig Ernst Friedrich Däumig German socialist and a leading figure in the workers’ council movement.
- Karl Liebknecht Karl Liebknecht The lone vote against the war; the revolution's first martyr
- Heinrich Brandler Heinrich Brandler KPD chairman who called off a revolution; co-founder of the International Right Opposition
- Paul Levi Paul Levi From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism
- August Thalheimer August Thalheimer Main theorist of the KPD and Bonapartist analyst of fascism
- Ernst Thälmann Ernst Thälmann Hitler's personal prisoner, unbroken by eleven years in solitary
- Karl Korsch Karl Korsch Co-founder of Western Marxism, the German philosopher who challenged Marxist orthodoxy with Marxism and Philosophy
- Hugo Eberlein Hugo Eberlein German Communist who abstained on the Comintern’s founding at its first congress and was later shot in the Great Purge
- Willi Münzenberg Willi Münzenberg The 'Red Millionaire' who exposed Nazi terror through publishing, the Comintern's greatest propagandist, who broke with Stalin
- Otto Braun Otto Braun “Li De”, the only Westerner on the Long March and the Comintern military adviser blamed at Zunyi