Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Selbmann was a German communist politician and writer who served in several legislative positions in the Weimar Republic and East Germany between 1932 and 1963. In the latter
Selbmann's official Landtag portrait, 1932
Selbmann's official Reichstag portrait, 1932
Selbmann (center, in white suit) gives a speech at a meeting of the Free German Youth in Bautzen, August 1946
Selbmann gives a speech in Leipzig, 1948
The Roter Frontkämpferbund, usually called the Rotfrontkämpferbund, was a far-left paramilitary organization affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic. A legally regist
RFB leaders Ernst Thälmann (left) and Willy Leow (right) in Berlin, June 1927
Assembly of the Roter Frontkämpferbund in Lustgarten, May 1928
RFB membership badges of the 1924 pattern (above) and of the 1926 pattern (below)
Ernst Thälmann in RFB uniform