KPD

Überblick
the KPD develops into a mass party in the Weimar Republic after merger with the left wing of the Independent Social Democratic Party (the USPD). Several failed attempts to create a Soviet republic by force (for example, in the Ruhr district in 1920). After 1925, adoption of the theory and practice of Bolshevism according to the model of the Soviet Union. At the time of the world economic crisis the KPD grows into the third-largest party. In 1933, the KPD is outlawed by the National Socialists who arrest and murder many of its members. Reconstitution of the Party after the Second World War. In the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ) in 1946 the forced merger of the Social Democrats (SPD) with the KPD creates the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In West Germany, participation of the KPD in a few Land administrations. Entry into the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) in 1949 (represented there until 1953); declared to be Constitutional opponents (verfassungswidrig) and dissolved by the Federal Constitutional Court. Reconstituted as the German Communist Party (DKP) in 1968.

Struktur
political party that follows the goal of establishing a Communist-oriented dictatorship of the proletariat