Communist Party of Germany (disambiguation)
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Communist Party of Germany (in German
: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is a name that has been and is being used by several organizations in Germany
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The "Communist Party of Germany" (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is not to be confused with the "German Communist Party" (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei). The latter was formed in 1968, as the former was banned in 1956.
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German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is a name that has been and is being used by several organizations in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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The "Communist Party of Germany" (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is not to be confused with the "German Communist Party" (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei). The latter was formed in 1968, as the former was banned in 1956.
- The original KPDCommunist Party of GermanyThe 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 until it was banned in 1956...
, founded in 1919, banned in 1956. - The Communist Party of Germany (Red Dawn) (KPD), founded in 1968 as Communist Party of Germany/Marxists-LeninistsCommunist Party of Germany/Marxists-LeninistsThe Communist Party of Germany/Marxist-Leninist , established on December 31, 1968, was an anti-revisionist pro-China party in West Germany that was later supportive of communist leader of Albania Enver Hoxha after the Sino-Albanian Split...
, known as "Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Roter Morgen)". - The Communist Party of Germany (1990)Communist Party of Germany (1990)Communist Party of Germany is a minor political party in Germany, one of several who claim the KPD name. It was founded in Berlin in 1990.The party chairman was Werner Schleese. He resigned in April 2006...
(KPD), founded in 1990, known as "Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Rote Fahne)" (Red Flag). - The Communist Party of Germany (2005) (Bolshevik) (KPD), split from Rote Fahne.
See also
- The German Communist PartyGerman Communist PartyThe German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist party in Germany.-History:The DKP 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...
(1968) (DKP), formed in West GermanyWest GermanyWest Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
in 1968.