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List of members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany

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This list provides an alphabetically ordered overview of the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) who were elected at the Party Congresses (1925–1939) or named in the KPD appeal after the re-admission in June 1945. It was not until the 10th Party Congress of the KPD in July 1925 in Berlin that a Central Committee (ZK) was elected as the governing body. It replaced the Zentrale (→ List of members of the Zentrale of the Communist Party of Germany).

The reason is given in brackets if members left the Central Committee before the next Party Congress (e.g. expulsion from the party, natural death, murder) or if the members were elected in absentia.

10th Party Congress (1925)

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The delegates of the tenth Party Congress in Berlin (12 – 17 July 1925) elected the following members to the Central Committee:

11th Party Congress (1927)

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At the eleventh Party Congress of the KPD in Essen (2 – 7 March 1927), the following members were elected to the Central Committee, in addition to eighteen candidates:[2]

12th Party Congress (1929)

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The twelfth Party Congress of the KPD in Berlin-Wedding (9 – 12 June 1929) elected the following Central Committee:

"Brussels" Conference / 13th Party Congress (1935)

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The "Brussels" Conference, later called the 13th Party Congress of the KPD, met following the 7th World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow from 3 to 15 October 1935. Wilhelm Pieck became party chairman of the KPD in place of the imprisoned Ernst Thälmann. The following members and candidates were elected to the Central Committee:

Candidates:

"Bern" Conference / 14th Party Congress (1939)

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The so-called "Bern" Conference [de] – later called the fourteenth Party Congress – met from 30 January to 2 February 1939, in Draveil near Paris. At the conference, the following Central Committee was elected, to which some who were not present were also elected:

Appeal (1945)

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The members of the Central Committee named in the Appeal of the Communist Party of Germany of 11 June 1945 [de] are:

In the Soviet Occupation Zone, the KPD and the SPD merged to form the SED at the unification party conference on 21/22 April 1946 (→ List of members of the SED Party Executive).

At the KPD delegate conference in Herne at the end of April 1948, a separate party executive was elected for the western zones for the first time (→ List of members of the KPD Party Executive). After the KPD was banned [de] in the Federal Republic of Germany, a Central Committee was again constituted on 30 September 1956 to lead the illegal party work,[5] which existed until the German Communist Party (DKP) was admitted.[6]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Weber, Hermann (1971). Die Wandlung des deutschen Kommunismus; Die Stalinisierung der KPD in der Weimarer Republik (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt [de]. pp. 127, 189, 231. ISBN 3-434-45008-4. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Ernst Thälmann: Eine Biographie (in German). Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin [de]. 1980. pp. 325, 400. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 Fowkes, Ben (1984). Communism in Germany Under the Weimar Republic (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers. pp. 146, 157. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
  4. ↑ Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: Deutsche Kommunisten. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 bis 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7, S. 47.
  5. ↑ Hans Kluth: Die KPD in der Bundesrepublik: Ihre politische Tätigkeit und Organisation 1945 – 1956. Westdeutscher Verlag, Köln / Opladen, 1959
  6. ↑ Vergleiche: Protokolle der Tagungen des Zentralkomitees der KPD von 1956 bis 1968 im Bestand des Bundesarchiv.

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