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List Of German Communist Party Politicians
A list of notable politicians and members of the German Communist Party (DKP): A * Hans-Henning Adler (now Die Linke) * Kersten Artus (now Die Linke) B * Eva Bulling-Schröter (born 1956, politician, today 'Die Linke' (party)) C * Emil Carlebach D * Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011) * Christian v. Ditfurth (until 1983) E * Gisela Elsner G * Peter Gingold H * Alfred Haag * Lina Haag * Hannes Heer * Hans Heinz Holz * Jörg Huffschmid K * Gisela Kessler * Franz Xaver Kroetz (until 1980) * Maria Krüger M * Herbert Mies N * Harry Naujoks * Otto Niebergall P * Detlev Peukert R * Max Reimann *Paula Rueß S * Sabine Wils * Karl Schabrod * Paul Schäfer (politician) * Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler * Karin Struck T * Uwe Timm (until 1981) * Axel Troost (now Die Linke) W * Hannes Wader Hannes Wader (born Hans Eckard Wader on 23 June 1942) is a German singer-songwriter (" Liedermacher"). He has been an important figure in German leftist circles since the 1970s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Communist Party
The German Communist Party (german: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports Far-left politics, far-left positions and was an observer member of the Party of the European Left, European Left before leaving in February 2016. History The DKP considered itself a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Federal Constitutional Court in 1956 for its aggressively militant opposition to the West German constitution. The new party was formed on 25 September 1968. The foundation was preceded by talks between former KPD functionaries and Gustav Heinemann, the West German minister of justice, who explained to them that while a refounding of a banned party was not legally possible, Communists were free to form an entirely new party. Even though the close links to the banned KPD made the new party liable to be declared illegal, no such declaration was requested by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Mies
Herbert Mies (23 February 1929 – 14 January 2017) was a German politician. He joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1945.Kinnell, Susan K. Communism in the World Since 1945: An Annotated Bibliography'. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 1987. p. 219 Mies was elected chairman of the (West) German Communist Party in 1973. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1985/1986. Mies resigned from his position as party chairman in October 1989. Mies died on 14 January 2017 in his hometown of Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ... at the age of 87. References 1929 births 2017 deaths German Communist Party politicians Lenin Peace Prize recipients {{Germany-DKP-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannes Wader
Hannes Wader (born Hans Eckard Wader on 23 June 1942) is a German singer-songwriter (" Liedermacher"). He has been an important figure in German leftist circles since the 1970s, with his songs covering such themes as socialist and communist resistance to oppression in Europe and other places like Latin America. He both wrote new songs and played versions of older historical works. Life and work Wader was born in Bethel, near Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany. His works are mostly based on German Folk songs. Aside from his own lyrics, he also performs works of famous poets like Eichendorff. He now rarely sings the workers' songs and socialist hymns that used to be a large part of his repertoire. In 1997 he published an album exclusively with songs by Franz Schubert. He also performed translated works from Carl Michael Bellman on the album ''Liebe, Schnaps & Tod''. In the 1970s, Hannes Wader became one of the stars of the political left through his provocative songs. He was a memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Troost
thumbnail, Troost in 2014 Axel Troost (1 September 1954 – 6 January 2023) was a German economist and politician. He was a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2017 and a brief period in 2021. From 2012, he was one of the four Vice Chairmen of his party (Die Linke). Life Education and career Born in Hagen, Troost obtained Abitur at Schule Schloss Salem in 1973, and studied economics at Philipps-Universität Marburg, where he obtained a doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in 1982 with a thesis on the subject of national debt and credit institutes – public borrowing in the context of the overall lending and service operations of commercial banks. Troost was head of the Working Group on Alternative Economic Policy (Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik) since 1981 and managing director of the Progress Institute for Economic Research (PIW GmbH) in Bremen and Teltow since 1984. He also worked as managing director of the Office for Structural Research Rostock (BÜSTRO) in Rostock from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm (; born 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer. Life and work Uwe Timm was born in the year 1940 in Hamburg. Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943. Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel ''In my brother's shadow''. After working as a furrier, Timm studied Philosophy and German in Munich and Paris, achieving a PhD in German literature in 1971 with his thesis: ''The Problem of Absurdity in the Works of Albert Camus''. During his studies, Timm was engaged in leftist activities of the 1960s. He became a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was associated with Benno Ohnesorg. From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the German Communist Party. Three times Timm has been called as a writer-in-residence to several universities in English-speaking countries: in 1981 to the University of Warwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Struck
Karin Struck (14 May 1947, Groß Kiesow – 6 February 2006) was a German author. She won the Rauris Literature Prize and the Andreas Gryphius Prize. She had generally been seen as a writer of women's literature and to the Left. However, in 1991 and 1992 she expressed her opposition to abortion and regret at having had one. She has been described by one feminist source as "one of the most outspoken female writers who openly opposes abortion." In 1996 she converted to the Roman Catholic Church. Selected works * ''Klassenliebe'' 1973 * ''Die Mutter'' 1975 * ''Lieben'' 1977SIREZ * ''Die liebenswerte Greisin'' 1977 * ''Trennung'' 1978 * ''Die Herberge'' 1981 * ''Kindheits Ende'' 1982 * ''Zwei Frauen'' 1982 * ''Finale'' 1984 * ''Glut und Asche'' 1985 * ''Bitteres Wasser'' 1988 * ''Blaubarts Schatten'' 1991 * ''Ich sehe mein Kind im Traum'' 1992 * ''Männertreu'', München 1992 * ''Ingeborg B. – Duell mit dem Spiegelbild'' 1993 * ''Annäherungen an Ingeborg Bachmann'' 2003 * '' HARMON ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Eduard Von Schnitzler
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (28 April 1918 – 20 September 2001) was an East German journalist, communist propagandist and host of the television show '' Der schwarze Kanal'' (german: link=no, The Black Channel) from 21 March 1960 to 30 October 1989. Early life Schnitzler was born in Berlin, the son of German vice consul Julius Eduard von Schnitzler, scion of a Cologne banking dynasty, who had been ennobled by the state of Prussia in 1913. Karl-Eduard attended a boarding school at Bad Godesberg and joined the ''Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend'' youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1932. After receiving his school-leaving qualification in 1937, he began studying medicine at the University of Freiburg. Early career Abandoning his medical studies, Schnitzler trained for a business career in Cologne and embarked on a commercial apprenticeship. In 1939, he became the owner of a delivery business. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Schnitzler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Schäfer (politician)
Paul Schäfer (born 18 January 1949 in Mainz) is a German politician and diplomat. In 1978 he received a diploma in sociology. From 1983 to 1990 he was editor of the magazine Wissenschaft und Frieden ('Science and Peace'). Political life He is the deputy for Left Party (Germany), Die Linkspartei. From 1970 to 1988 he was a member of the German Communist Party, DKP, then from 1993 to 1999 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD. In 2000 he joined the Left Party (Germany), PDS (now 'Die Linkspartei'). He has been regional chairman for the party in North Rhine-Westphalia since May 2003, and a member of the party's executive committee since October 2004. In the 2005 German federal election, 2005 federal election he was elected to the Bundestag on the party list for North Rhine-Westphalia. External links List of Left Party deputies with profiles (in German) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Schabrod
Karl Schabrod (born 19 October 1900 in Perleberg; died 31 March 1981 in Düsseldorf) was a German communist politician. Life and work After elementary school in Perleberg, Schabrod was from 1915 to 1918 an apprentice in his father's carpentry firm. In 1919 he visited the School of Applied Arts in Leipzig for several months and then worked until 1927 in various cities as a carpenter in his learned profession. He was a member of the free trade union German Woodworkers Association (''Deutschen Holzarbeiterverband'') since 1920. From 1921 he was also a member of the '' monistic youth'' (''Monistische Jugend'') and an employee of the club magazine. Politically he belonged from 1922 initially to the SPD and joined in 1924 the KPD. For the youth organization of the party, he was active in the episode. In addition, he was a member from 1926 to 1929 of the Rotfrontkämpferbund and a Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association. From 1927 to 1929 he was editorial apprentice Communist ''Bergis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Wils
Sabine Wils (31 May 1959 – 18 June 2023) was a German politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for Die Linke from 2009 until her death.Neues Deutschland: Delegation der LINKEN, 14. Juli 2009, S. 2. Life and career Sabine Wils was born and grew up in Aachen, where she completed secondary school in 1977, before training as a midwife in Hamburg between 1978 and 1980. In 1980, she began studying chemistry, and graduated with a chemistry degree in 1988. Subsequently, she worked between 1989 and 1997 at the Environmental Agency in Hamburg, and from 2004 in the local authority for urban development and the environment. From 1999, she was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism and its successor, Die Linke. Between 1980 and 1989, she was a member of the German Communist Party and at times in the Socialist German Workers Youth and MSB Spartakus. She was married and had three children. Wils died on 18 June 2023, at the age of 64. Politics In the European ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Rueß
Paula Rueß (born Paula Kopp: 3 May 1902 - 8 August 1980) was a German political activist (KPD). Forced into exile by the Nazi takeover, during the early 1940s she worked with the French Resistance. Life Paula Kopp was born in Lichtensteig, a small town in the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen, a short distance from the three-way frontier with Germany and Austria. At the age of 21 she was already a member of the Communist Party of Germany. From 1928 she was working at Berlin in the secretariat at the international office of the Young Communists. From here she moved on to a job as a typist in the press department of the party central committee's own secretariat. She married Hermann Nuding in 1923 or 1925. The Nazi takeover in January 1933 was quickly followed by the switch to a one-party state, and at the end of February 1933, following the Reichstag fire, Hermann Nuding was among the first of a large batch of German Communists to be arrested and placed in "protective custod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Reimann
Max Reimann (31 October 1898 – 18 January 1977) was a German communist politician and member of the Bundestag. Biography Reimann was born in Elbing (Elbląg), West Prussia (today Poland). He worked as a riveter at the Schichau yards in 1912–16 and was drafted into the German Army in the First World War. In 1913, he became a member of the German Metal Workers' Union and the Socialist Labourers Youth, in 1916 of the Spartakusbund. In 1918 he was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for his participation in an anti-war demonstration at Elbing throughout the German Revolution of 1918–19. After his release from prison Reimann moved to Ahlen in 1920 to work as a miner, joined the German Coalminer Union and became a full-time official of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1921. Reimann fought against the French Occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 and was imprisoned for a short time. Throughout the 1920s, he held several positions within the Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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