Communist Councils Union

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The group called the Communist Councils Union by the National Socialists was a council - communist anti - fascist resistance group , which had its main focus in Braunschweig and was crushed by the National Socialists in 1934 , 20 members were arrested. The group essentially consisted of former supporters of the left communist KAPD and various branches of the General Workers' Union. It also included SPD members and young people who had previously been politically unorganized. Its best-known members were August Merges , who was briefly Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig from November 1918 to February 1919 , and Minna Faßhauer , Minister of Education. The group had contact with resistance groups of the Communist Workers Union (KAUD) in Magdeburg and Berlin. After Berlin there were connections to the resistance group around Alfred Weiland .

literature

So far there are no monographs or essays on the Communist Council Union. Notes can be found at:

  • Reinhard Bein: Resistance under National Socialism. Braunschweig 1930 to 1945 . Steinweg-Verlag, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-925151-10-9 .
  • Jan Foitzik: Between the fronts. On the politics, organization and function of left-wing small political organizations in the resistance from 1933 to 1939/40 with special consideration of exile . Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-87831-439-6 ( Political and Social History 16), (At the same time: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 1986), p. 32 and p. 300.
  • Michael Kubina: About Utopia, Resistance and the Cold War. The untimely life of the Berlin councilor communist Alfred Weiland (1906–1978) . Lit, Hamburg et al. 2000, ISBN 3-8258-5361-6 ( dictatorship and resistance 1), (at the same time: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2000).