A list of notable politicians and members of the German Communist Party (DKP):

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Kersten Artus Kersten Artus (née Westphal, born April 1, 1964) is a German journalist and politician. She is a member of The Left (Germany), The Left and a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Life Kersten Artus was born in Bremen. She moved to Hamburg in 19 ...

(now Die Linke)

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* Eva Bulling-Schröter (born 1956, politician, today 'Die Linke' (party))

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Emil Carlebach Emil Carlebach (10 July 1914, Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau - 9 April 2001) was a Hessian Landtag member, a writer, and a journalist. He was born and died in Frankfurt am Main. Life Emil Carlebach was descended from a family of rabbis who had practiced ...

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Franz Josef Degenhardt Franz Josef Degenhardt (3 December 193114 November 2011) was a German poet, satirist, novelist, and – first and foremost – a folksinger/songwriter ( Liedermacher) with decidedly left-wing politics. He was also a lawyer, bearing the academic d ...

(1931–2011) * Christian v. Ditfurth (until 1983)

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Gisela Elsner Gisela Elsner (2 May 1937 – 13 May 1992) was a German writer. She won the Prix Formentor in 1964 for her novel ''Die Riesenzwerge'' (''The Giant Dwarfs''). Early life Elsner was born in Nuremberg, Middle Franconia. In 1959, she went to Vienna ...

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Peter Gingold Peter Gingold (8 March 1916 – 29 October 2006) was a figure in the German Resistance and the National Committee for a Free Germany. He was born in a Jewish family in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany ( ...

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Alfred Haag Alfred Haag (15 December 1904, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg – 8 August 1982) was a member of the Youth movement of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD) in the small Württemberg town of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 1920s, he married anothe ...

Lina Haag Lina Haag née ''Jäger'' (18 January 1907 – 18 June 2012) was a German anti- Fascist activist. Early life Haag was born in Hagkling, and was a member of the Youth movement of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the small Württembergis ...

Hannes Heer Hans Georg Heer (known as ''Hannes'') (born 16 March 1941) is a German historian, chiefly known for the ''Wehrmachtsausstellung'' (German: "Wehrmacht Exhibition") in the 1990s. While controversial at that time, the exhibition is nowadays widely c ...

* Hans Heinz Holz * Jörg Huffschmid

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* Gisela Kessler *

Franz Xaver Kroetz Franz Xaver Kroetz (; born 25 February 1946) is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. He achieved great success beginning in the early 1970s. ''Persistent'', '' Farmyard'', and ''Request Concert'', all written in 1971, are some o ...

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Maria Krüger Maria Krüger (1904–1999) was a Polish children's literature writer and journalist. Krüger participated in the Warsaw Uprising. Several of her children's books received radio and television adaptations, and have been required reading in Polish s ...

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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, 19 ...

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Harry Naujoks Harry Naujoks (18 September 1901 – 20 October 1983) was a German anti-fascist and communist and survivor of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Biography Naujoks was born in Harburg on the Elbe (today part of Hamburg). He learned the trade of ...

* Otto Niebergall

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Detlev Peukert Detlev Peukert (September 20, 1950 in Gütersloh – May 17, 1990 in Hamburg) was a German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history and the Weimar R ...

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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 19 ...

* Paula Rueß

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* Sabine Wils * Karl Schabrod * Paul Schäfer (politician) *

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 Octobe ...

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 an ...

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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 i ...

(until 1981) *

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 ...

(now Die Linke)

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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 resis ...

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Christel Wegner Christel Wegner (born November 16, 1947 in Hamburg) is a German Communist politician. In 2008, she was elected to the assembly of Lower Saxony for '' Die Linke'', although she is a member of the German Communist Party (DKP), which until now has c ...

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German Communist Party The German Communist Party (german: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports left positions and was an observer member of the European Left. At the end of February 2016 it left the European party. His ...