Urgent Appeal (1932)
The urgent appeal of the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) of June 1932 was a call from 33 well-known personalities for tactical cooperation between the SPD and KPD in the Reichstag elections of July 1932 . Politically, the appeal had no consequences, but the following year, after Hitler came to power, it had a cultural and political impact that made him more widely known.
In response to the rise of the NSDAP , the appeal was published in the ISK Der Funke newspaper, posted on Berlin's advertising pillars and - in the optical arrangement chosen there - had the following wording:
- The wrestling A ppell!
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The destruction of
all personal and political freedom- in Germany it is imminent if it does not
succeed at the last minute, regardless of conflicting principles, to bring
together all forces that
are united in rejecting fascism . The next opportunity is July 31st. It is important
to seize this opportunity and finally to take a step towards
- in Germany it is imminent if it does not
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Building a unified workers front,
- which will be
necessary not only for parliamentary but also for further defense. We make an
urgent appeal to everyone who shares this conviction to help
- which will be
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a merger of the SPD
and KPD for this election campaign- comes about, preferably in the form of joint candidate
lists, but at least in the form of list connections. INS
special in the big labor organizations, not only in the
parties, it is important, for this purpose all possible influence
muster. Let us see to it that indolence of nature
and cowardice of heart do not let us sink into barbarism!-
Chi-yin Chen / Willi Eichler / Albert Einstein / Karl Emonts / Anton Erkelenz
Hellmuth Falkenfeld / Kurt Großmann / E [mil]. J. Gumbel / Walter Hammer
Theodor Hartwig / Vitus Heller / Kurt Hiller / Maria Hodann / Hanns-Erich
Kaminski / Erich Kästner / Karl Kollwitz / Käthe Kollwitz / Arthur Kronfeld
E. Lauti / Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt / Heinrich Mann / Pietro Nenni / Paul
Oestreich / Franz Oppenheimer / Theodor Plivier / Freiherr von Schoenaich
August Siemsen / Minna Specht / Helene Stöcker / Ernst Toller / Count Emil von Wedel / Erich Zeigner / Arnold Zweig
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Chi-yin Chen / Willi Eichler / Albert Einstein / Karl Emonts / Anton Erkelenz
- comes about, preferably in the form of joint candidate
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The destruction of
On February 12, 1933, two weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, an identical text was again called for the upcoming Reichstag election to unite against Hitler. This time it was signed by 19 people, including Heinrich Mann and Käthe Kollwitz. On February 15, at the instigation of Bernhard Rust , who had been a member of the NSDAP since 1922 and had served as Prussian minister of culture since February 2, 1933, against the opposition of Alfred Döblin and Oskar Loerke , both were forced to leave the Academy of the Arts . The architect and Berlin city planning officer Martin Wagner then resigned from the academy in protest, whereas Max Liebermann did not leave the academy until after the books were burned in May 1933.
literature
- Werner Link: The history of the International Youth Association (IJB) and the International Socialist Combat League (ISK). A contribution to the history of the labor movement in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Hain, Meisenheim 1964 ( Marburg Treatises on Political Science , edited by Wolfgang Abendroth , Volume I)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ on p. 2 of issue No. 147 of June 25, 1932 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ^ Reproduction of the poster (sharper when enlarged) - from a commemorative article for Arthur Kronfeld , student and friend of Leonard Nelson , the founder of the ISK
- ^ On the role of Grossmann in the German resistance
- ↑ After emigrating to Great Britain, Maria Hodann took the name Mary Saran .
- ↑ presumably Government councilor Count Emil von Wedel from Großenhain ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , later district administrator in Greater Hesse
- ↑ Der Funke issue No. 321, p. 3 (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ Dorothea Körner: One is silent within oneself. Käthe Kollwitz and the Prussian Academy of the Arts 1933–1945 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 9, 2000, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 157–166 ( luise-berlin.de ). According to note 11 (p. 166) signed at that time: Willi Eichler , Karl Emonts , Hellmuth Falkenfeld , Kurt Großmann (see note 3), EJ Gumbel , Theodor Hartwig , Maria Hodann , Käthe Kollwitz , Karl Kollwitz , Robert Kuczynski , Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt , Heinrich Mann , Paul Oestreich , August Siemsen , Minna Specht and Erich Zeigner ; real also included August Siemsen's sister Anna Siemsen as well as Marie Westphal-Krause and Karl Zwing - s. Note 6
