What is Communist Party of Germany?
The '''Communist Party of Germany''' (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) was a major [[political party]] in the [[Weimar Republic]] between 1918 and 1933, and was reestablished as a party after the end of [[World War II]]. The party was led from 1925 by [[:en:Ernst_Thälmann|Ernst Thälmann]] up until [[Adolf Hitler]] took power in 1933, at which point it was pushed underground as a party. After the end of World War II, the party remained small in West Germany up until 1956, at which point it was banned as a party. == Founding == Please note that the information used in the following paragraph was gathered from the German version of this Wikipedia page. The party was founded in 1918-1919 by [[Rosa Luxemburg]] and [[Karl Liebknecht]] in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]], and was founded as a direct reaction to [[:de:Weihnachtskämpfe|Christmas Battles]]. The creation of the party took place during a three day founding conference by the merging of the [[Spartacus League]], and the [[:de:Internationale_Kommunisten_Deutschlands_(1918)|International Communists of Germany]]. After a suppressed uprising in 1919, generally referred to as the [[:de:Spartakusaufstand|Spartacus Uprising]], both Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed by members of the [[:de:Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division|Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division]]. <ref>{{Citation|title=Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands|date=2025-03-09|url=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunistische_Partei_Deutschlands|work=Wikipedia|language=de|access-date=2025-03-24}}</ref> [[Category:1918 establishments in Germany]] [[Category:1933 disestablishments in Europe]] [[Category:Former political parties in Germany]] [[Category:Communist parties in Europe]] {{multistub|politics|europe}}