Ernst Aust

Ernst Aust (born April 12, 1923 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel ; † August 25, 1985 in Müden (Aller) ) was a German editor and politician of the KPD , from the end of 1968 of the KPD / ML .

Life

During the Second World War Aust was captured by the British. There he got to know German communists . Aust became a member of the KPD and of the “ Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany ”. From 1951 he worked as an editor for the Hamburger Volkszeitung .

In 1953, on behalf of the party, Aust took over the coastal magazine Blinkfüer, which had emerged from the movement to liberate Heligoland . Aust was an opponent of de-Stalinization and sided with the People's Republic of China and Albania in the conflict between Beijing and Moscow . In June 1967 Aust began publishing the newspaper Roter Morgen .

On December 31, 1968, Aust founded the Maoist KPD / ML in Hamburg - one of the first K groups in Germany. After the extraordinary party congress in late 1971, the party elected him as its chairman.

The party later split several times. As early as 1970, Aust had a falling out with Willi Dickhut , editor of the theory organ Revolutionary Path . Dickhut later became the founder of the KABD , an amalgamation of the KPD / ML (Revolutionary Way) and the Communist Workers' Union / Marxist-Leninists (KAB / ML), from which today's Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany emerged in 1982 . While Dickhut remained a Maoist even after Mao Zedong's death , in 1978 Aust followed the course of the Albanian communists under Enver Hoxha. In 1974, Hoxha received Aust for the first time in an individual audience.

literature

• Ernst Aust died. Former chairman of the Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists , in: Frankfurter Rundschau No. 197 of August 27, 1985, p. 4
• Jürgen Busche : Maoist Ernst August Aust has died ; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 198 of August 28, 1985, p. 4

Web links

• Obituary for Ernst Aust. In: Essays for Discussion. 7 (1985), No. 34, December 1985, p. 2 .