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The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, pronounced [zotsi̯aˈlɪstɪʃə ˈʔaɪnhaɪtspaʁˌtaɪ ˈdɔʏtʃlants] ; SED, pronounced [ˌɛsʔeːˈdeː] ), informally known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic ...
- 16 December 1989
- Free German Youth
- 21 April 1946
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, shortened: SED) was the governing party of East Germany from 1949, when East Germany was created, until the elections of 1990. It was formed in 1946 a year after World War 2 ended in 1945 and after Nazi Germany was defeated and after the Nazi ...
- 1946
- Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)
- 1990 (renamed PDS)
Socialist Reich Party Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands: SRP Otto Ernst Remer, Fritz Dorls, Gerhard Krüger: National Socialism: 1949–1952 Banned in 1952 Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin Sozialistische Einheitspartei Westberlins: SEW Gerhard Danelius (1962-1978) Communism Marxism-Leninism: 1962–1991 Split from SED ...
- Background
- Preparation For The Merger
- Party Unification Day
- Berlin, The Special Case
- The Example of Thuringia
- Party Memberships at The Time of The Merger
- Consequences and Follow-Through
- The SPD in Western Germany and The Forced Merger
- See Also
Among circles of the workers' parties KPD and SPD there were different interpretations of the reasons for the rise of the Nazis and their electoral success. A portion of the Social Democrats blamed the devastating role of Communists in the final phase of the Weimar Republic. The Communist Party, in turn, insulted the Social Democrats as "social fas...
Under heavy pressure from the Soviet occupation forces and the Communist Party leadership, and with the support of some leading Social Democrats, working groups and committees were formed at all levels of the parties, whose declared aim was to create a union between the two parties. Many Social Democrats unwilling to unite were arrested in early 19...
On 7 April 1946 a group of SPD opponents of the merger in the western sector of Berlin met together in a school in Zehlendorf (Berlin) for a new party conference at which they elected a three-man leadership team comprising Karl Germer Jr., Franz Neumann and Curt Swolinzky. On the same date a decision in support of the merger was taken at a joint Pa...
The rules agreed between the occupying powers concerning Berlin itself conferred on the city a special status which differentiated the Soviet sector of Berlin from the Soviet occupation zone of Germany which on three of its four sides adjoined it. The SPD used this fact to run a party referendum on the merger, using a secret ballot, across the whol...
In contrast to Berlin, for which voting results show SPD majorities rejecting the merger of the left-wing parties, the historian Steffen Kachel has identified quite a different set of results in Thurinigia, a region dominated by farms and forests, where for most of the time left-wing parties had hitherto enjoyed a lower level of overall support amo...
In the Soviet occupation zone (excluding Greater Berlin) party membership numbers were as follows: 1. 1.1. KPD: .....624,000 members (April 1946) 1.2. SPD: .....695,000 members (31 March 1946) 1.3. SED: ..1,297,600 members (April 1946) The fact that the post-merger membership total of the merged of the SEDwas more than 20,000 below the combined pre...
SPD members who had opposed the merger were prevented from refounding an independent Social Democratic party in the Soviet occupation zone by the Soviet administration. Six months after the KPD/SPD merger, in the regional elections of October 1946 the new unified workers' party did not attract as many votes as they had anticipated: despite massive ...
The view that in 1933 long-standing political divisions on the German left had opened a path for the Nazi takeover was not restricted to the Soviet occupation zone. During 1945 there was also discussion about the relationship between the SPD and the Communist Party in the western occupation zones. In some localities (for instance Hamburg, nearby El...
- Merger of the KPD and SPD into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
- Unification treaty
- 21 April 1946; 76 years ago
After the end of World War II, Ulbricht re-organized the German Communist Party in the Soviet occupation zone along Stalinist lines. He played a key role in the forcible merger of the KPD and SPD into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1946.
- East German
- Beate Ulbricht
- 1915–1918
- SED (1946–1973)
