Committee for Proletarian Unity

The Committee for proletarian unity was a several hundred-member communist resistance group against the Nazis focusing in Hannover , which is essentially made up of members of the so-called themselves conciliators -Strömung within the KPD , but also of the SPD , KPD-O and SAPD composed -members. The group developed an intensive collaboration with SAPD structures in southern Lower Saxony around the later IG Metall chairman Otto Brenner . The organization emerged around 1930 from a circle around the Hanoverian KPD functionaryEduard Wald and put his focus on work in the company and union . In the summer of 1933, the committee was one of the first organizations to present a balance sheet entitled “What should you do?” Without a fight against the workers' movement against National Socialism , in which, unlike the assessments of the SPD and KPD, of a devastating defeat and a long-term one Establishment of the NSDAP in power is assumed. The committee that published the newspaper Klassenkampf and several company newspapers was smashed by the Gestapo in 1935/36 after the smuggling of an informant .

Other members

Arthur Gerlt (1903-1996)

literature

Hans-Peter Riesche, Gerd Reuter, Wolfgang Strohmeyer (eds.): “What should one do?” An early document from the communist-oriented proletarian resistance. In: Yearbook Labor Movement 6. Frankfurt / Main 1979, pp. 185–224.
Wilhelm Sommer: Edu Wald and the resistance group “Committee for Proletarian Unity” in Hanover - with a text by Peter Wald. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter (New Series), Vol. 57/58, 2003/2004. Hannover 2004, pp. 205-218.

Individual evidence

↑ Knut Böhme: Motion to the next meeting of the city district council on March 16, 2011 on the subject of naming a path after Arthur Gerlt , motion of the SPD parliamentary group in the city district council of Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode of the state capital Hanover to the district mayor ... Manfred Benkler o. V. i. A. of February 28, 2011, PDF document , last accessed on October 1, 2012

[1] Knut Böhme: Motion to the next meeting of the city district council on March 16, 2011 on the subject of naming a path after Arthur Gerlt , motion of the SPD parliamentary group in the city district council of Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode of the state capital Hanover to the district mayor ... Manfred Benkler o. V. i. A. of February 28, 2011, PDF document , last accessed on October 1, 2012