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In the fourteen years the Weimar Republic was in existence, some forty parties were represented in the Reichstag.This fragmentation of political power was in part due to the use of a peculiar proportional representation electoral system that encouraged regional or small special interest parties [1] and in part due to the many challenges facing the nascent German democracy in this period.
The list of Left Communist organisations in the Weimar Republic includes groups and organisations associated with left communism.Some of them are groups of the left-wing opposition of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) who opposed the course of KPD leadership both within and without the party, especially against the Stalinization.
The Left Communists in the Reichstag were not a uniform political group, but merely a "technical" group to achieve group or parliamentary rights, totalling 15 politicians who had been expelled from the KPD between January 1926 and February 1928. [1]
The Law for the Protection of the Republic (German: Gesetz zum Schutze der Republik) was the name of two laws of the Weimar Republic that banned organisations opposed to the "constitutional republican form of government" along with their printed matter and meetings. Politically motivated acts of violence such as the assassination of members of ...
The left-wing of the KPD, including Ruth Fischer and Ernst Thälmann, were ready to strike from the start. Only Arkadi Maslow from the Fischer group remained uncooperative despite Moscow's threats. [14] Zinoviev viewed the participation of the KPD in the Saxon state government coalition as a prerequisite for action.
Members of the cabinet in June 1928. Müller is seated, second from left. Gustav Stresemann (DVP), Foreign Minister Julius Curtius (DVP), second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Economic Affairs Carl Severing (SPD), Minister of the Interior and of Occupied Territories Erich Koch-Weser (DDP), Minister of Justice Theodor von Guérard (Centre), Minister of Justice and of Occupied ...
The left-wing uprisings were accompanied by widespread strikes that escalated to a form of civil war in some parts of the country, notably in the Ruhr area. The strikes and resulting economic disruptions were a serious threat to Germany's stability, as the supply of food to the population was already tenuous.
Syndikalismus und Linkskommunismus von 1918 bis 1923: Ein Beitrag zur Sozial- und Ideengeschichte der frühen Weimarer Republik [Syndicalism and left-wing communism from 1918 to 1923: A contribution to the social and intellectual history of the early Weimar Republic] (in German). Meisenheim am Glan: Verlag Anton Hain.