Communist Party of Germany (in
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:
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is a minor
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
in
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, one of several who claim the KPD name. It was founded in
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in 1990.
The party chairman was Werner Schleese. He resigned in April 2006. The current chairman is Dieter Rolle.
KPD publishes a monthly newspaper,
Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag).
The youth wing is known as
Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (Young Communist League of Germany), which was founded 2002.
Ahead of the 2005
BundestagThe Bundestag is the parliament of Germany. It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag...
elections, the party unsuccessfully appealed for an electoral union with the
German Communist PartyThe German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in Germany.-History:It was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956.The party remained on the political fringe,...
(DKP) and the
Left PartyThe Party of Democratic Socialism was a democratic socialist political party active in Germany from 1989 to 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party , which ruled the German Democratic Republic until 1990. From 1990 through to 2005, the PDS had been seen as the left-wing...
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Communist Party of Germany (in
GermanGerman is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by...
:
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is a minor
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
in
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
, one of several who claim the KPD name. It was founded in
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
in 1990.
The party chairman was Werner Schleese. He resigned in April 2006. The current chairman is Dieter Rolle.
KPD publishes a monthly newspaper,
Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag).
The youth wing is known as
Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (Young Communist League of Germany), which was founded 2002.
Ahead of the 2005
BundestagThe Bundestag is the parliament of Germany. It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag...
elections, the party unsuccessfully appealed for an electoral union with the
German Communist PartyThe German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in Germany.-History:It was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956.The party remained on the political fringe,...
(DKP) and the
Left PartyThe Party of Democratic Socialism was a democratic socialist political party active in Germany from 1989 to 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party , which ruled the German Democratic Republic until 1990. From 1990 through to 2005, the PDS had been seen as the left-wing...
. This provoked a split, resulting in the formation of the Communist Party of Germany (Bolshevik).
KPD's line can be described as
stalinistStalinism was the political system and ideology of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1928–1953...
, with some influence from
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JucheThe Juche Idea is the official state ideology of North Korea. It teaches that "man is the master of everything and decides everything," and that the Korean people are the masters of Korea's revolution. Juche is a component of Kimilsungism, North Korea's political system...
and
SongunSŏn'gun, often spelled Songun, is North Korea's "Military First" policy, which prioritizes the Korean People's Army in the affairs of state and allocates national resources to the army first...
doctrines, which are enthusiastically supported by the organisation.
The party released no official membership numbers, according to estimates it has ca. 100 members.
Electoral history
- 1990 Volkskammer
The People's Chamber was the unicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic . From its founding in 1949 until the first free elections on 18 March 1990, all members of the Volkskammer were elected on a slate controlled by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , called the National Front...
: 8 819 votes (0.1%), stood in 12 out of 15 constituencies
- 2002 Bundestag
The Bundestag is the parliament of Germany. It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag...
- 2004 Municipal elections in Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a federal state of Germany, located in the southeastern part of present-day Germany. It is the tenth-largest German state in area and the sixth largest in population , of Germany's sixteen states.Long in the heart of German-speaking Europe, Saxony became one of the new...
and Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt is one of the sixteen Bundesländer that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of , and a population of 2.45 million...
. In ZeitzZeitz is a town on the river Weiße Elster in the middle of the triangle of the federal states Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony.-History:...
the party got 1.9% and one seat in the municipal council.
- 2004 Landtag
A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.The German word "Landtag" is composed of the words Land which names a political entity comparable to a federal state and the word Tag...
ThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen
Bundesländer...
: 0.2%
See also
- Communist Party of Germany (disambiguation)
Communist Party of Germany is a name that has been and is being used by several organizations in Germany....
- historical, original KPD
The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period...
, founded in 1919.