Karl Schirdewan (14 May 1907 – 14 July 1998) was a German Communist activist who after World War II became a top East German politician. During the mid...

Martin Schirdewan (born 12 July 1975) is a German journalist and politician who has been serving as co-chairman of The Left since June 2022. He has sat...

Schirdewan is a German language surname of slavic origin. Notable people with the name include: Karl Schirdewan (1907–1998), German Communist activist...

president. His power consolidated, Ulbricht suppressed critics such as Karl Schirdewan, Ernst Wollweber, Fritz Selbmann, Fred Oelssner, Gerhart Ziller and...

members and secretaries held an unofficial number two spot, most notably Karl Schirdewan and then Honecker during the tenure of Walter Ulbricht and Paul Verner...

Magdeburg, Cottbus, Halle, Leipzig, Erfurt, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt (named Chemnitz until the 1953 Karl Marx Year), Gera and Suhl. Due to its special status...

member Karl Schirdewan had formed within the SED Politburo to oppose Ulbricht's policies and Wollweber had unwisely[citation needed] taken Schirdewan's side...

Direktionsbezirk Leipzig, bordered with the Bezirke of Halle, Cottbus, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Gera. The Bezirk was divided into 13 Kreise: 1 urban district...

Walter Ulbricht, was open to suggestions, the political downfall of Karl Schirdewan, Fred Oelßner and one or two others was seen as a sign that traditionalist...

learning at the "Karl Marx" Party Academy. In 1952, he became the First Secretary of the Bezirk Leipzig SED, succeeding Karl Schirdewan, who joined the...

Augustine Ward Lowndes, 81, American science fiction author and editor. Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician. Angus John...

Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7190-5498-3. Schirdewan, Karl (1995). "Das tragische Schicksal von Gerhard Ziller". Aufstand gegen...

member of the KG state leadership. In 1933-1934 he worked together with Karl Maron illegally – for Hitler had come to power by now – for the KG. In 1934...

something reassuringly familiar about Naumann's next position. Like Karl Schirdewan in 1958, in 1986 Konrad Naumann was given a post, in the first instance...

Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski 1984 Dietmar Schauerhammer Hans Schaul Karl Schirdewan Eva Schmidt-Kolmer Heinz Schmidt Rita Schober Paul Scholz 1969 Paul...

policies. The SED's Central Committee also expelled two liberal members, Karl Schirdewan and former Security Minister Ernst Wollweber, on the same day for "violations...

Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Schirdewan, Karl (1994). Aufstand gegen Ulbricht (in German). Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-7466-8008-5. Schöneburg, Karl-Heinz, ed. (1976)...

Archives) in Potsdam. After a lengthy illness, in 1965 he succeeded Karl Schirdewan as head of the State Archives Administration in Potsdam, where he also...

Scheinert SED Lothar Schiele Berlin representative Rosa Schilling DFD Karl Schirdewan SED replaced MP Lohagen on July 23, 1952 Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher...

Harry Bachmann SED am 12. März 1958 für den Abg. Schirdewan nachgerückt Arno Bähr LDPD Fritz Barth SED Karl-Heinrich Barthel NDPD am 18. Januar 1956 nachgerückt...

policy, but she was not a lone voice. Inside the Central Committee, Karl Schirdewan and Ernst Wollweber were voicing similar sentiments. Other prominent...

2022, The Left's co-chairpersons have been Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan. The party holds 28 seats out of 736 in the Bundestag, the federal legislature...

violence as a means of attaining power and adopted The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx; however, this was only a symbolic gesture, as according to the constitution...

Euroscepticism Far-right 80 / 735 9 / 96 ID 34,000 The Left Die Linke LINKE Martin Schirdewan, Janine Wissler Democratic socialism Left-wing populism Left-wing 28 /...

Returning Officer. Retrieved 9 November 2021. "Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan form the new Left leadership". Der Spiegel (in German). 26 June 2022....

at that time. Selbmann was accused of having supported the so-called Schirdewan-Wollweber-Ziller faction, at the party conference at which it became clear...

Alonso Puerta Francis Wurtz Lothar Bisky Gabi Zimmer Manon Aubry Martin Schirdewan Other prominent figures Gesine Lötzsch Klaus Ernst See also European Parliament...

the left wing of the workers' movement established the KPÖ. Ruth Fischer, Karl Steinhardt, Franz Koritschoner, and Lucien Laurat were among the co-founders...

was held in Zürich, with Léon Nicole elected to the role of President and Karl Hofmaier to General Secretary. On 6–7 October 1945 the Second Congress was...

Alonso Puerta Francis Wurtz Lothar Bisky Gabi Zimmer Manon Aubry Martin Schirdewan Other prominent figures Gesine Lötzsch Klaus Ernst See also European Parliament...