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Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈtɛːlman]; 16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist politician, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933.
Ernst Thälmann was a German Communist leader and twice presidential candidate during the Weimar Republic (1919–33), who was chiefly responsible for molding the German Communist Party (KPD; Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands), the most powerful communist party outside the Soviet Union.
Aug 18, 2016 · But who was Ernst Thälmann really, beyond the clichéd narratives of East and West? A Class Fighter. Born in 1886 in Hamburg, Thälmann grew up in a fairly modest family that owned a small colonial imports store, and became a critic of exploitation and social inequality at a young age.
Ernst Thälmann is an East German film in two parts about the life of Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany during much of the Weimar Republic, directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon in the title role.
The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 13 in East Germany. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany, who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse: Directed by Kurt Maetzig. With Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Erich Franz, Erika Dunkelmann. This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel.
Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse: Directed by Kurt Maetzig. With Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Karla Runkehl, Paul R. Henker. The second part of the Ernst Thälmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thälmann's murder in 1944.
Ernst Thälmann: With Helmut Schellhardt, Christine Schorn, Günther Grabbert, Peter Sodann.
Jun 30, 2014 · The first two chapters cover the lifetime of Ernst Thälmann, demonstrating that the myth surrounding his person commenced well before his death. Chapter 1 examines the period from Thälmann’s birth up to his imprisonment in March 1933, introducing and discussing those aspects of his biography that became integral parts of the Thälmann legend.
From January 1915 to the end of the war in 1918, he shared the fate of millions of soldiers at the front, whose lives were put at risk for the interests of the international finance capital and militarism. Ernst Thälmann stood for the struggle against Nazis.
