A federal election for the second Reichstag of the Weimar Republic was held in Germany on 4 May 1924. It took place following a series of national crises in 1923, most notably the occupation of the Ru
SPD 1924 leadership
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Reichskanzler Wilhelm Marx
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The Communist Party of Germany was the major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in Allied
May 1924 German federal election
…stabilization program had succeeded. The German National People's Party (DNVP) countered by calling the Dawes Plan a "second Versailles", and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) denounced it as an "enslavement of the German proletariat". Within the Social Democratic Party (SPD), a group centered around Otto Wels wanted a…
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Members of the Reichstag faction of the KPD c. 1921. Sitting from left to right: Joseph Herzfeld, Clara Zetkin, Emil Eichhorn, Georg Berthelé. Standing from left to right: Max Heydemann, Walter Stoecker, Wilhelm Koenen, Wilhelm Bartz, Heinrich Malzahn, Paul Frölich.
KPD in Essen, 1925