Free Socialist Party (Marxist-Leninists)

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The Free Socialist Party (Marxists-Leninists) (FSP / ML) was the first Maoist- oriented party in the Federal Republic of Germany . It was founded in 1967 and existed mainly in Siegerland until the 1980s (soon as the Siegen / Olpe district association of the KPD / ML ). In contrast to the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany , which emerged from 1965 and was seen by some as a foundation of the protection of the constitution, and with today's MLPDhas nothing to do, its founding members appeared publicly and were known by name. The FSP / ML is counted among the forerunner organizations of the Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists (KPD / ML).

The initiators of the Free Socialist Party / Marxist-Leninists first appeared in the spring of 1967 with leaflets calling for a founding meeting of a Marxist-Leninist party. This took place on April 22, 1967 in the Käthe-Kollwitz Haus in Frankfurt am Main . Instead of the expected 1,000 interested parties, fewer than 100 turned up, most of them belonging to other groups. Günter Ackermann was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the FSP / ML, but he soon left the party. Werner Heuzeroth, who led the party for the next few years, became second secretary. In 1968 the FSP / ML was in contact with groups (including around Ernst Aust ) that founded the KPD / ML at the end of 1968, but fell out soon afterwards.

The FSP / ML, which appeared without the addition of "ML", gave u. a. a magazine The truth out.

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann / Paulette Friedlingstein: The Maoists. Beijing's branches in Western Europe , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 247–249, 257–258
  • Gerd Langguth : Protest movement at the end. The New Left as the advance guard of the DKP , Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1971, ISBN 3-7758-0827-2 , p. 93
  • Gerd Langguth: The protest movement in the Federal Republic of Germany 1968-1976 , Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-8046-8520-X , ISBN 3-921352-18-5 , pp. 108-109 ( Die Vorläufer der KPD / ML )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schreidet to action , in: Der Spiegel 21/1967, p 68
  2. ^ Günter Ackermann (born May 18, 1940), former Vopo sergeant, then resident in Frankfurt
  3. ↑ Werner Heuzeroth (born March 18, 1920), innkeeper from Niederschelderhütte near Siegen
  4. ↑ Schlomann / Friedlingstein, pp. 247–249
  5. ^ Extended axis , in: DER SPIEGEL 48/1968, pp. 68–70
  6. ↑ Schlomann / Friedlingstein, pp. 257-258
  7. ↑ Left radicalism in the Federal Republic in 1967 , in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte , B 30/68 (July 24, 1968), ( Pro-Chinese Communist Groups , pp. 20-21 with illus. Pro-Chinese writings on p. 22 )

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