''Die rote Fahne des Ostens'' ('The Red Flag of the East') was a newspaper published from

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

. It was the organ of the

East Prussia East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...

- Danzig organization (''bezirk'') of the

Communist Party of Germany The Communist Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, , KPD ) was a major political party in the Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West German ...

.Matull, Wilhelm.
Ostdeutschlands Arbeiterbewegung; Abriss ihrer Geschichte, Leistung und Opfer
'. Würzburg: Holzner Verlag, 1973. p. 356 It functioned as the local edition of the Berlin-based newspaper ''

Die Rote Fahne ''Die Rote Fahne'' (, ''The Red Flag'') was a German newspaper originally founded in 1876 by Socialist Worker's party leader Wilhelm Hasselmann, and which has been since published on and off, at times underground, by German Socialists and Communis ...

'' between 1919 and September 1922. During this period Martin Hoffmann served as editor of the newspaper. Erich Wollenberg became the editor-in-chief of ''Die rote Fahne des Ostens'' in 1922. In 1922 ''Die rote Fahne des Ostens'' was replaced by ''

Echo des Ostens ''Echo des Ostens'' ('Echo of the East') was a newspaper published daily from Königsberg. It was the organ of the East Prussia district organization (''bezirk'') of the Communist Party of Germany 1922-1933.Archivalische Forschungen Zur Geschichte ...

''.
Archivalische Forschungen Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung
', Vol. 6, Eds. 1. Akademie-Verlag., 1968. p. 452

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rote Fahne des Ostens German-language communist newspapers Communist Party of Germany Defunct newspapers published in Germany Mass media in Kaliningrad Newspapers established in 1919 Publications disestablished in 1922