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227:, took part in the December 1920 general strike. The DSAP party leadership issued a statement on January 8, 1921, condemning the Liberec party branch for violation of party discipline. The DSAP left responded by declaring their support for the formation of a Communist Party. DSAP expelled its Liberec branch on January 17, 1921, which in turn held a conference on January 30, 1921, and issued an appeal for an extraordinary party conference to be held March 12, 1921. The expelled Liberec DSAP branch was joined by other German left-wing social democrats in working towards founding a new party. 439:, who for tactical reasons hesitated in forming a new party. Šmeral sought to gather as many left social democrats as possible before formalizing the split in the Czech social democracy, prompting Kreibich to accuse the Czech Marxist left of being a platform for 'centrists' and 'opportunists'. Drawing from the experiences of the building of the KPD, Kreibich sought to utilize the same approach to Šmeral's group as the 477:
and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division), was held between October 30, 1921, and November 4, 1921. Šmeral and Kreibich were the main speakers at the event. All 169 delegates at the conference voted in favour of a unified Communist Party, without any distinction of nationality.
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June–July 1921. The dispute between the Šmeral and Kreibich factions was resolved at this meeting, the Comintern instructed that a unified international Communist Party to be formed in Czechoslovakia within three months (which Šmeral had resisted) whilst Kreibich was reprimanded for 'leftist
191:. The party emerged from a split in the German labour movement in the Czechoslovak Republic and functioned parallel to the Czech Marxist left movement for most of 1921. The party represented a more radical position compared to the Czech Marxist left, and fully supported adherence to the 434:
in particular was pushing for the unification of the communist movement in Czechoslovakia into a single party, a move that the Czech leftists had initially resisted. The German communists had taken a more radical stand than the Czech left leader
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The party had a printing house of its own, with four rapid presses, a rotary press and five typesetting machines. Prior to the founding of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division), the organ of Liberec left was the daily newspaper
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Notably, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division) was the first communist party in the new republic, with the Czech Marxist left forming their party only in May 1921.
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of the Communist International and issued a request, without any preconditions, for affiliation to the International. 160 delegates participated in the party conference.
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of the party elected Kreibich as its chairman, Joska as treasurer and Kreutz as deputy treasurer. The executive committee constituted the same day included Kreibich,
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deviations'. During the summer of 1921 local joint international communist organizations emerged around the country, gathering Czech, German and (in the case of
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Kreibich represented the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division) at the third congress of the Communist International, held in
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As per the statutes adopted in the founding party conference, the new party was divided into 18 district organizations (
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Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Gesellschafts- und sprachwissenschaftliche Reihe
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About a quarter of the DSAP membership, over 40,000 people, joined the new party. Kreibich, along with his colleague
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Neue Heimat im Sozialismus: die Umsiedlung und Integration sudetendeutscher Antifa-Umsiedler in die SBZ/DDR
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Kommunistische Partei der Tschechoslowakei (Deutsche Abteilung), Sektion der Kommunistischen Internationale
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Protokoll des III. Kongresses der Kommunistischen Internationale (Moskau, 22. Juni bis 12. Juli 1921)
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Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938
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Intellectuals and the Communist Idea: The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938
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Intellectuals and the Communist Idea: The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938
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Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division), Section of the Communist International
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Parallel to the founding party conference in Liberec, a national women's conference (
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The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division) originated in a split in the
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Emil Franzel (1901 ? 1976): Biografie eines sudetendeutschen Intellektuellen
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Berichte des Bundesinstituts für Östwissenschaftliche und Internationale Studien
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Germany (West). Bundesinstitut zur Erforschung des Marxismus-Leninismus (1965).
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Archivalische Forschungen zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung
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Die Politik des deutschen Aktivismus in der Tschechoslowakei, 1920-1938
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attended the conference, and Neumann held a speech to the delegates.
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German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic
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German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic
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and Czech and German communists from Czechoslovakia was held in
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Kommunistische Partei der Tschechoslowakei (Deutsche Abteilung)
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In April 1921, a meeting between representatives of the
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Ladislav Cabada; Zdenek Benedikt (14 September 2010).
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Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division)
754:. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. p. 57. 680: 526: 418:). The secretariat had a publication of its own, 219:. The leftwing elements in the DSAP, centered in 853: 443:had employed in winning over large parts of the 398:('The Communist Trade Unionist'), later renamed 274:(KPD). On March 15, 1921, the newly constituted 807:Ladislav Cabada; Zdenek Benedikt (2010-09-14). 676: 674: 672: 648: 405: 445:Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany 841:Wissenschaftlicher Dienst für Ostmitteleuropa 505: 425: 740: 738: 669: 501: 499: 497: 495: 493: 491: 473:A unification party conference, merging the 270:, built the party with inspiration from the 230: 882:Interwar minority parties in Czechoslovakia 744: 701: 570: 796:. Feltrinelli Reprint. 1967. p. 411. 735: 724: 564: 488: 877:1921 disestablishments in Czechoslovakia 867:Political parties disestablished in 1921 718: 687:. 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Index

Chairman
Karl Kreibich
German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Vorwärts
Women's wing
Ideology
Communism
Communist International
Politics of Czechoslovakia
Political parties
Elections
German
Czechoslovakia
Communist International
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic
Hungary
Hungarian Soviet Republic
Liberec
Karl Kreibich
Liberec
21 theses
Union of Communist Groups
Stanislav Kostka Neumann
Alois Neurath
Communist Party of Germany
Central Committee
Alois Neurath
Aussig

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