Socialist republic

Socialist republic
language	German
First edition	1919
attitude	1933

The Socialist Republic was founded on January 5, 1919 in Cologne as a newspaper of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). It was published until February 19, 1933.

history

The newspaper initially appeared as the headline of the Solingen Bergische Arbeiterstimme ; From mid-1920 onwards, it had its own editorial team in Cologne.

From December 6, 1920 to September 1921, the Socialist Republic appeared as an organ of the United Communist Party of Germany (VKPD). From 1921 it was the daily newspaper of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) for Cologne and the surrounding area.

From July 20 to August 2, 1931, the newspaper was banned by the Upper President of the Rhine Province on July 18, 1931 due to the ordinance to combat political excesses.

As a daily newspaper, the newspaper documented the activities of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the communists in the Cologne area and the surrounding area during the Weimar Republic . The Aachener Arbeiter-Zeitung , which appeared from 1924 to 1933 as the headline of the Socialist Republic , was closely connected to the Socialist Republic .

Supplements from the Socialist Republic were:

The Red Star (illustrated)
The communist trade unionist
The communist
The member of the cooperative
The great solidarity
The Bundschuh

editorial staff

Franz Dahlem was a co-founder of the Socialist Republic and from 1919 to 1921 its first editor.
Heinrich Süsskind was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1921.
Philipp Dengel was editor-in-chief from 1922 to 1923.
Peter Maslowski was editor-in-chief in 1924.
Adolf Ende was editor-in-chief in 1925.
Johannes König was the second political editor from December 1925 to autumn 1926.
Dr. Julius Klepper was editor from 1924 to 1926 and editor-in-chief from 1926 to 1927.
Willy Feller was a political editor in 1929.
Wilhelm Pinnecke 1928 to 1933 editor.
Ismar Heilborn was editor from 1931 to the end of February 1933, then the last editor-in-chief of the Socialist Republic .
Further editors: Wolfgang Bartels , Arthur May until summer 1932.
Georg Hansen was a volunteer from 1923 to 1924.

publishing company

The newspaper was printed from 1920 by the Max Hertz printing company, Cologne, Mühlenbach 38. Until March 1923, the newspaper was printed by the publishing house Gutenberg GmbH, Koblenz, Schloßstraße 8. The newspaper was printed in 1927 by “Peuvag” paper production - und Verwertungs AG Berlin, branch: Cologne, Aquinostraße 11. From March 1st, 1928 to February 1933 the printing and publishing was done by Colonia-Verlag GmbH Cologne, Aquinostraße 11. Total circulation 13,000 copies.

literature

Günter Bers: The Middle Rhine / Saar district of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1922 . Einhorn-Presse Främcke, Wentorf near Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-887560-11-6 .

Günter Bers: A regional division of the KPD: The Middle Rhine district and its party congresses in the years 1927/1929 . Einhorn-Presse Verlag Främcke, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-887560-21-3 , pp. 3 and 32.

Günter Bers: The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the Cologne-Aachen area towards the end of the Weimar Republic: a documentation on the year 1932 . Einhorn-Presse Verlag Främcke, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-887560-29-9 , pp. 40 and 48.

Hans-Werner Frohn: Workers' Movement Cultures in Cologne 1890 to 1933 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-884745-69-7 , p. 18.

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Werner Frohn: Workers Movement Cultures in Cologne 1890 to 1933 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-8847-45-6-97 , p. 18.

^ Adolf Klein: Cologne in the Third Reich. City history from 1933–1945. Greven Verlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7743-0206-5 , p. 128.

^ Hans Werner Frohn: Worker Movement Cultures in Cologne 1890 to 1933 , Klartext Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-8847-45-6-97 , p. 18

^ Günter Bers: The Middle Rhine / Saar district of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1922 . Einhorn-Presse Främcke, Wentorf near Hamburg 1975, p. 6.

↑ Peter Staatz: The Reich and Landtag elections in the Düren district during the Weimar Republic , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1994, p. 96.

↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung Aachen, No. 132 of July 20, 1931, p. 1.

^ Kristen Benning: The history of the SED central organ "New Germany" from 1946 to 1949 , Volume 3. Lit Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3252-X , p. 71.

↑ Prof. Günter Bers: A regional structure of the KPD: The Middle Rhine District and its party congresses in the years 1927/1929, Einhorn Presse Verl, 1981, ISBN 3887560213 , 9783887560218, p. 31

^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 456.

^ Helmut Kampmann: Koblenz Press Chronicle: 80 newspapers from three centuries . Mittelrhein Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-9251-8001-X , p. 256.

[1] Hans-Werner Frohn: Workers Movement Cultures in Cologne 1890 to 1933 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-8847-45-6-97 , p. 18.

[2] Adolf Klein: Cologne in the Third Reich. City history from 1933–1945. Greven Verlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7743-0206-5 , p. 128.

[3] Hans Werner Frohn: Worker Movement Cultures in Cologne 1890 to 1933 , Klartext Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-8847-45-6-97 , p. 18

[4] Günter Bers: The Middle Rhine / Saar district of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1922 . Einhorn-Presse Främcke, Wentorf near Hamburg 1975, p. 6.

[5] Peter Staatz: The Reich and Landtag elections in the Düren district during the Weimar Republic , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1994, p. 96.

[6] Arbeiter-Zeitung Aachen, No. 132 of July 20, 1931, p. 1.

[7] Kristen Benning: The history of the SED central organ "New Germany" from 1946 to 1949 , Volume 3. Lit Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3252-X , p. 71.

[8] Prof. Günter Bers: A regional structure of the KPD: The Middle Rhine District and its party congresses in the years 1927/1929, Einhorn Presse Verl, 1981, ISBN 3887560213 , 9783887560218, p. 31

[9] Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 456.

[10] Helmut Kampmann: Koblenz Press Chronicle: 80 newspapers from three centuries . Mittelrhein Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-9251-8001-X , p. 256.