Title: Schlagt Hunger und Krieg / Wählt Thälmann

Artist: Unknown

Date: 1932/19??

Size: approx. 18-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches

Print medium: Offset lithography.

Notes: Poster after the first page of Der rote Kampfruf, Nr. 5/1932, with election poster for the German Communist Party (KPD) leader Wahlt Thalmann circa 1930s.

Condition: Probably a later printing (removed from a book?) with blank verso, binding tab and fold lines, else very good overall condition. 

Biography:

Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann (born April 16, 1886 in Hamburg; † probably August 18, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a German politician in the Weimar Republic . From 1925 until his arrest in 1933 he was chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which he represented in the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933 and for which he ran in the presidential elections of 1925 and 1932. Thälmann led the Red Front Fighter League from 1925 until the ban in 1929(RFB), which appeared as a paramilitary protection and defense organization of the KPD, especially in street fights with political opponents and the police.

He completed the restructuring of the KPD as a new type of party, as provided for in the statutes of the Communist International . Based on the Soviet social fascism , the Communist Party, which is increasingly under his leadership fought Stalinised , the SPD as the main political enemy within the Weimar Republic. This development came from Thalmann himself, who followed Stalin's orders. Stalinist purges were also carried out in the KPD.

His arrest took place on March 3, 1933, two days before the Reichstag elections in March 1933 and a few days after the Reichstag fire. Thälmann was shot in August 1944, after eleven years of solitary confinement, presumably on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler.

In the GDR , Thälmann's memory was officially cultivated extensively and at the same time politically instrumentalized.

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