List of the members of the central committees of the KPD

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This list gives an alphabetical overview of the elected on party days (1925-1939) and after the re-registration in June 1945 in the appeal of the KPD called members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). It was not until the Xth Party Congress of the KPD in Berlin in July 1925 that a Central Committee was elected as the governing body . It took the place of the headquarters (→ list of members of the KPD headquarters ).

The reason is given in brackets if members left the Central Committee before the next party congress (e.g. expulsion from the party, natural death, murder) or if the members were elected in absentia.

Xth Party Congress (1925)

The delegates to the Xth Party Congress in Berlin (July 12-17, 1925) elected the following members to the Central Committee:

XI. Party Congress (1927)

On the XI. The KPD party congress in Essen (March 2-7, 1927) elected the following members to the Central Committee:

XII. Party Congress (1929)

The XII. Party congress of the KPD in Berlin-Wedding (June 9-12, 1929) elected the following Central Committee:

"Brussels" Conference / XIII. Party Congress (1935)

The "Brussels" conference , which later became the XIII. Party congress of the KPD, met in connection with the VII. World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow from October 3rd to 15th, 1935. Wilhelm Pieck became party chairman of the KPD in place of the incarcerated Ernst Thälmann . The following members and candidates were elected to the Central Committee:

Candidates:

"Bern" Conference / XIV. Party Congress (1939)

The so-called "Bern" Conference - later referred to as the XIV. Party Congress - met from January 30 to February 2, 1939 in Draveil near Paris . At the conference, the following CC was elected, to which some not present were also elected:

Appeal (1945)

The members of the Central Committee named in the appeal of the Communist Party of Germany of June 11, 1945 are:

In the Soviet Zone , the KPD and the SPD joined forces at the unification party conference on 21/22. April 1946 to form the SED (→ list of members of the SED party executive ).

At the delegates' conference of the KPD in Herne at the end of April 1948, a separate party executive was elected for the first time for the western zones (→ list of members of the party executive of the KPD ). After the KPD was banned in the Federal Republic of Germany, on September 30, 1956, a central committee for the management of illegal party work was established again, which existed until the German Communist Party (DKP) was approved .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 47.
  2. ↑ Hans Kluth: The KPD in the Federal Republic: Your political activity and organization 1945 - 1956 . West German publishing house, Cologne / Opladen, 1959
  3. ↑ Compare: Minutes of the meetings of the Central Committee of the KPD from 1956 to 1968 in the holdings of the Federal Archives.