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SZ Photo - KPD in the Weimar Republic

The KPD (Communist Party of Germany) in the Weimar Republic. One of the most important parties in the interwar years from its founding in 1918 until its prohibition by the National Socialists in 1933. - This selection contains pictures from our partner agency Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

Wilhelm Pieck as a deputy to the Prussian State Parliament, 1928

01.01.1928 - The co-founder of the German Communist Party Wilhelm Pieck (1876-1960) after his release in Berlin. Pieck was a deputy to the Prussian State Parliament during 1921-28 and was arres...
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Demonstrations on the 1st of May in the Berlin, 1930

01.05.1930 - The workers' sports clubs which count many KPD supporters as party members and which are observed by the Prussian SPD government with distrust, fight here during the meeting (Reich...
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Electoral advertisements in Reichstag election. 1932

01.11.1932 - Representatives of three different parties stand next to each other with their sandwich boards. KPD (Communist Party of Germany), NSDAP (National Socialist Party of Germany, Nazi)...
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Ruth Fischer, 1924

01.06.1924 - Ruth Fischer (actually Elfriede Golke, 1895-1961), political journalist and politician (KPD). [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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Poster of the KPD against the SPD in Berlin, 1929

01.01.1929 - KPD poster with propaganda directed against the SPD on an advertising column in Berlin. The poster urges the workers to join the KPD. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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Poster of the KPD, 1919

01.01.1919 - The poster from the early days of the KPD in of the Weimar Republic in January 1919 shows the murdered Spartacist Leader Karl Liebknecht at a work meeting. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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March of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1927

01.01.1927 - Whit march of the KPD in the Schiller Park in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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May Day demonstration of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1930

01.05.1930 - Demonstration of the KPD on 1. May in the Berlin Lustgarten. A slogan of the protesters is 'For a Soviet Germany'. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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May Day demonstration of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1919

01.01.1919 - Protest march of the KPD on the 1st of May in of the Tauentzinstrasse in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Demonstration of  the Communist Party in Berlin, 1930

01.05.1930 - The Communist Party cell in the Berlin Reichsdruckerei (printing shop) at a protest march on 1 May in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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May Day celebrations of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1930

01.05.1930 - Participants at an event with banners of the KPD on 1 May 1930 in the Lustgarten in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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Posters of the KPD, 1928

01.01.1928 - A poster of the KPD at a advertising column calling to attend a mass rally. The poster shows a modified placards of the SPD and illustrates the charge of the SPD of betraying the c...
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Propaganda car of the KPD, 1932

01.01.1932 - Propaganda truck of the KPD with a poster made against the SPD on the way through Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000004]
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May Day celebrations of the KPD in Berlin, 1926

01.05.1926 - Protest posters of the KPD against church and capitalists at the procession of the May Day parade in Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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Electoral office of the KPD in Berlin before the Reichstag elections, 1929

17.11.1929 - Supporters of the KPD in front of the "agitation local" of the 14th district Neukoelln. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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Clara Zetkin, 1925

24.11.1925 - The teacher Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), co-founder of the USPD and KPD. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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Clara Zetkin at the opening of the Reichstag, 1932

30.08.1932 - At the constitutive meeting of the newly elected Reichstag the 75-year old President Clara Zetkin (KPD) holds an opening speech that caused a sensation at home and abroad. [XPAEXPO...
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Rosa Luxemburg

01.01.1900 - Rosa Luxembourg (1870-1919), socialist politician and cofounder of the Communist Party. [XPAEXPORTID000007]
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German nationalists protest against the cession of territory in the East, 1929

01.06.1929 - At the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Versailles Treaty, which ceded the German eastern territories to Poland, German nationalists hold a protest march in Essen: men wear...
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Control of persons in Berlin, circa 1920s

01.01.1920 - The Berlin working-class districts of Wedding and Moabit were strongholds of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Rotfrontkaempferbund (RFB). During a raid, the police lock...
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Wilhelm Pieck as a deputy to the Prussian State Parliament, 1928
Ruth Fischer, 1924
March of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1927
Demonstrations on the 1st of May in the Berlin, 1930
Poster of the KPD against the SPD in Berlin, 1929
May Day demonstration of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1930
Electoral advertisements in Reichstag election. 1932
Poster of the KPD, 1919
May Day demonstration of the Communist Party in Berlin, 1919

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