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Ernst Friedrich Däumig (born November 25, 1866 in Merseburg , † July 4, 1922 in Berlin ) was a socialist politician and journalist .

Life

Däumig completed his military service in 1887 and then joined the Foreign Legion until 1898 . After returning to Germany he joined the SPD and from 1901 worked for various party newspapers in Gera , Halle (Saale) and Erfurt . In 1911 he was appointed to the editorial staff of Vorwärts and was also active in the party's educational and training work. As war opponents and critics of burgfriedenspolitik the party leadership, he was in 1916 from the forward from editorial staff, the "Message sheet" of the party left issued and in 1917 joined the USPD and forwarded 1,918 times its secretariat.

In 1918, Däumig maintained close contacts with the leadership of the Revolutionary Obleute and welcomed the October Revolution early on . He developed into the spokesman for the left wing of the party , which was in favor of council democracy . Däumig propagated the idea of ​​councils primarily in the journal Der Arbeiter-Rat, which he had published since January 1919 . During the November Revolution he was sent to the Prussian War Ministry as an alderman and became a member of the Berlin Executive Council . Däumig made the main proposal at the Reichsrätekongress in December 1918, which provided for the anchoring of the council system in the future state structure instead of calling the National Assembly ; this was rejected by the delegates with a large majority. On January 5, 1919, at the conference of the political leaders of the Revolutionary Obleute, the USPD and the KPD , Däumig warned against taking up the struggle against the Ebert government, as wanted by most of those present, because he assessed the chances of success very little. With Richard Müller and four others, he voted against the attempt to overthrow the government, contrary to a large majority, and only supported the general strike. From 1918 to 1920 he was one of the leading figures in the Berlin council movement and was involved during the general strike in March 1919 , as well as in founding the Berlin works council headquarters .

In the spring of 1919 Hugo Haase was still defeated in the election for party chairmanship , but in December of that year he reached the party leadership and was elected to the Reichstag in June 1920. As a member of a party delegation, Däumig negotiated with the Comintern leadership in Moscow to join the USPD in the same year and at the USPD congress in Halle in October of that year he belonged to the left wing majority that united with the KPD in December.

Together with Paul Levi, elected co-chairman of the now United KPD (which also operated under the alternative abbreviation VKPD for about two years ), he stepped together with Levi in ​​February 1921 out of criticism of the “offensive strategy” of the party majority, which was a violent revolutionary Advocated overthrow, withdrew from the chairmanship and left the KPD a little later after the failed March action and Levi's expulsion from the party. Together with Levi and others who had left, he founded the Communist Working Group (KAG) and edited its organ “Our Way”. In April 1922 he rejoined the USPD with a large part of the KAG and died a little later.

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  1. ↑ Axel Weipert: The Second Revolution. Council movement in Berlin 1919/1920. Berlin 2015.
  2. ↑ Richard Müller: A History of the November Revolution . 14th edition. Die Buchmacherei, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-0-03-035400-7 , p. 547 f .
personal data
SURNAME Dumb, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thirty, Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD, VKPD), MdR and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1922
Place of death Berlin