Communist Party of Germany (Germany)

Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD, banned 1956

Last modified: 2005-09-24 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction

See also:

• Socialist Unity Party of Germany 1946-1990 (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED, East Germany)
• German Communist Party (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei / DKP)
• Workers' Association for the restoration of the KPD (Arbeiterbund für den Wiederaufbau der KPD)
• Political Parties (Germany)
• Germany

From the DKP website (only in German, Spanish and Portuguese): "El DKP se reconstruyo nuevamente en el año 1968 en la RFA porque el Partido Comunista de Alemania - KPD - se ilegalizo en el año 1956 hasta el dia de hoy. (...) El DKP se sienta en la tradición del KPD, fundado por Rosa Luxemburg y Karl Liebknecht. (...)". Abridged translation: "The DKP was founded in 1968 in West Germany because the KPD, founded by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht [in the late 1910s / early 1920s?], had been banned in 1956."

Santiago Dotor, 2 March 2000

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (...), the ruling party of the former German Democratic Republic (...), was founded 1946 by a forced unification of the KPD and SPD in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. In 1989 after the fall of the Mauer [the Berlin Wall] it renamed itself SED-PDS, and since February 1990 only PDS.

Marcus Schmöger, 14 August 2000