Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (1965–1968)
The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD 1965) was one of the first organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany to follow the policies of the Communist Party of China and the Party of Labor of Albania . According to her own statements, she was also active in the GDR. It was founded on March 5, 1965, the anniversary of Josef Stalin's death , and existed until the autumn of 1968. There were no personal connections to today's MLPD .
history
The MLPD (1965) worked in a strictly conspiratorial way in illegality and gave the number of its members completely inflated at 5,000. Actually, it only appeared through its central organ, Socialist Germany , published from August 1965 . The magazine consisted of twelve duplicated pages and appeared mostly monthly and sometimes with camouflage titles such as Der Limes und die Germanen , Travels in the German low mountain ranges and diet regulations for liver patients . In it the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , the Communist Party of Germany , which was banned in the FRG in 1956, and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany were accused of revisionism , Ernst Thälmann , Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were identified as role models and the existence of the German Democratic Republic was advocated. The party's “revolutionary program” read: “ Defend the GDR, liberate West Berlin , fight for the People's Republic of Germany ” - which should also include the former East German territories .
The MLPD (1965) consisted of the two sections GDR (including West Berlin) and "West Germany". The organization held party congresses in secret, the IV was documented in 1967 in several editions of Socialist Germany . The party chairman is said to have been a tax advisor named Erich Reimann from Hanau , who later no longer appeared.
Establishment of the protection of the constitution
There are allegations that this MLPD (1965) was one of the initiatives of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to "bring confusion into the ranks of the banned KPD, " said Günther Nollau in his 1978 book Das Amt . There the former president of this authority describes the attempt by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to send the magazine and other Chinese propaganda material to the members of the banned KPD known by name by communicating their addresses to the Beijing Review . (A German edition only appeared as Peking Rundschau from 1964 onwards .) This was intended to give the leadership of the KPD the impression that a powerful pro-Chinese faction was at work within their organization. After the constitution of the German Communist Party in 1968 and the foreseeable founding of the Maoist- oriented Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists , the purpose of "causing some difficulties" for the banned KPD was fulfilled and the MLPD was dissolved.
On a similar action by the Dutch secret service: Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands .
Web links
literature
- Scream to action. Der Spiegel 21/1967 of May 15, 1967, p. 68.
- Left- wing radicalism in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1967. In: From Politics and Contemporary History B 30/68 (July 24, 1968), ( Pro-Chinese Communist Groups , pp. 20-21 with illus. Pro-Chinese writings on p. 22).
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann , Paulette Friedlingstein: The Maoists. Beijing branches in Western Europe. Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag 1970, pp. 245-247 ISBN 3-7973-0195-2 .
- Günther Nollau : The office. 50 years of witness to history. Bertelsmann, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-02687-6 , pp. 229-230.
Individual evidence
- ^ Socialist Germany , Volume 3, No. 24 of October 31, 1967.
- ↑ Schlomann / Friedlingstein, p. 245.
- ^ Socialist Germany , Volume 3, No. 22, Berlin, August 31, 1967, p. 1 (and more often)
- ^ Post from Beijing. In: Der Spiegel 8/1964 of February 19, 1964, p. 48: "A spokesman for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: 'We do not know where the Beijing publishers got the address list from.'"