Philipp Dengel

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Philipp Dengel (born December 15, 1888 in Ober-Ingelheim , † March 28, 1948 in Berlin ) was a communist politician and journalist.

Life

The son of a winemaker first attended the secondary school in Mainz and then studied philosophy and history at the universities of Mainz and Gießen until 1911 . In 1911 he joined the SPD . Until 1913 he worked as a teacher at a private school in Heidelberg. Dengel was then called up for military service and was in the military until 1918 and was promoted to lieutenant . Politicized by the experience of war, Dengel worked during the November Revolution on various newspapers published by workers' councils and joined the KPD in 1919 , where he initially worked as editor of the Red Flag . In 1922 Dengel took over the management of the KPD daily newspaper Sozialistische Republik in Cologne and became a member of the KPD district management for the Middle Rhine. In 1923 he became editor of the Hamburger Volkszeitung and took part in the Hamburg uprising in October of the same year .

After the "left wing" had prevailed within the party in 1924, Dengel temporarily acted as political director of the Wasserkante and then Lower Rhine districts and was elected to the Reichstag in May 1924 , to which he was a member until 1930. In 1925 also a member of the Central Committee, Dengel supported Stalin's open letter and the dismissal of the previous chairmen Arkadi Maslow and Ruth Fischer , became a member of the Politburo and Central Committee secretary of the party and was thus chairman of the party together with Ernst Thälmann . On the VI. World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow in 1928 , he was also elected to the Executive Committee and Presidium of the Comintern. Later he also taught at the International Lenin School in Moscow.

During the Wittorf affair in October 1928, Dengel and Thälmann fell apart, as the former supported Thälmann's temporary removal after the corruption allegations against Thälmann became known. For this reason Dengel was only elected to the Central Committee at the KPD party congress in 1929 and lost his other offices, in 1930 also his mandate in the Reichstag. In the following years he was active in the Comintern apparatus and mostly in Moscow, temporarily also in Sweden. In the Lutetia district (1935–36) he worked on the attempt to create a “popular front” against the Hitler dictatorship. He was one of the signatories of the "Appeal to the German People". In 1936 he was re-involved in party work and in 1939 he was re-elected to the Central Committee without playing a major role in the party, especially since his health had been badly damaged by a stroke since 1941 . In 1947, the seriously ill Dengel returned to Berlin, where he died the following year.

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