The Brussels Conference of the KKE ( German Brüsseler Konferenz der KPD ) is the first party conference of the German Communists after the rise of the National Socialists . Held on October 3 - 15, 1935 in Kuntsevo near Moscow . [1] For the purpose of conspiracy, the venue was the Belgian capital. The Brussels Conference is also often referred to as the 13th Congress of the KKE. The conference was attended by 35 (according to other sources 38) party members and about 20 guests of the congress.
The reports from the Central Committee of the KKE were made by Wilhelm Peak and Wilhelm Florin . Walter Ulbricht , Anton Ackerman and Franz Dahl also gave speeches at the conference. Among the foreign guests of the party conference was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and the leader of the Italian Communist Party, Palmiro Togliatti .
The Communists of Germany had to work out the line of the party in the prevailing conditions. A strong group in the leadership of the KKE (in particular, Dahl and Florin) believed that the party's policy until 1933 was correct and, therefore, did not need changes. Ulbricht, Peak, and other communists proposed revising the existing strategy and tactics of the KKE in the light of the need to combat fascism.
Following the decisions of the Seventh Congress of the Communist International , the KKE conference decided on the need for unity of action for the entire working class and the anti-fascist people's dandy and adjusted its policy. First of all, the changes affected relations with the SPD , which the Communists had previously accused of social fascism and regarded as a political opponent. The path to the overthrow of the Hitler dictatorship , the prevention of war and the creation of a free, democratic Germany was set forth in the resolution "A New Way for the Joint Work of All Workers for the Overthrow of the Hitler Dictatorship" and the manifesto "Towards the Working German People". The decisions of the Brussels Conference formed the basis of the program for building a new democratic republic, developed at the Berne Conference of the KKE .
Ernst Thälmann was re-elected as chairman of the KKE, and Wilhelm Pieck was entrusted with his duties at the time of Thälmann's imprisonment.
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- Wilhelm Pieck: Der neue Weg zum gemeinsamen Kampfe für den Sturz der Hitlerdiktatur. Referat und Schlußwort auf der Brüsseler Parteikonferenz der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands (Oktober 1935). Anhang: Resolution und Manifest der Partei-Konferenz . Editions Promethee, Strasbourg 1935.
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- Siegfried Vietzke: Die KPD auf dem Wege zur Brüsseler Konferenz . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1966.
- Klaus Mammach (Hrsg.): Die Brüsseler Konferenz der KPD (3.-15. Oktober 1935) . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975.
- Meyers Universal Lexikon. Band 1, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1978, S. 353.
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