Communist Workers Party of Germany is the English name of the Kommunistischen Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands and is more generally known by its initials KAPD. It was founded in April 1920 in Heidelberg as a split from the Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands or KPD. Originally the party remained a "sympathising member of Communist International." In 1922 the KAPD split into two factions, both of whom kept the name but are referred to as the KAPD Essen Faction and the KAPD Berlin Faction.

KAPD Essen Faction was linked to the Communist Workers International.

The party published a paper, Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung.

Activists in the KAPD:

• Jan Appel
• Arthur Goldstein
• Franz Jung
• Heinrich Laufenberg
• Paul Mattick (1904–1981)
• Bernard Reichenbach
• Otto Rühle (1874–1943)
• Karl Schröder (1884–1950), Essen Faction
• Fritz Wolfheim

See also

External link

• Libertarian Communist Library KAPD archive - online archive of texts

Communist parties in Europe | Former political parties in Germany | 1920 establishments

Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands | Partido Comunista Obrero de Alemania | Parti communiste ouvrier d'Allemagne