Ernst Thälmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 16th April, 1886. His friend, Wilhelm Pieck, later recalled: "As the son of a class-conscious worker organised in the Social-Democratic Party, Ernst Thälmann came into the Socialist movement in his early youth. He was hardly sixteen years old when he joined the Social-Democratic Party. A member of the Transport Workers Union he joined the Social Democrat Party in 1903.
Friedrich Ebert now replaced him as leader of the party. Like most socialists in Germany, Ebert was initially opposed to the idea of Germany going to war. However, once the First World War had started, he ordered the SDP members in the Reichstag to support the war effort.
Thälmann disagreed with the policies of Friedrich Ebert but he was recruited into the German Army in 1915 and during the First World War fought on the Western Front. He deserted in 1918 and when he arrived back in Germany he joined the Independent Socialist Party (ISP). Other members included Kurt Eisner, Karl Kautsky, Julius Leber, Rudolf Breitscheild and Rudolf Hilferding. Ernst Thälmann was active in the German Revolution in Hamburg that began on 29th October 1918.
Thälmann was on the left-wing of the ISP and was a leading figure in the merger with the German Communist Party (KPD) in November 1920. The following month he was elected to the Central Committee of the KPD. Paul Levi was the leader of the KPD. Other prominent members included Willie Munzenberg, Ernst Toller, Walther Ulbricht, Hermann Duncker, Hugo Eberlein, Paul Frölich, Wilhelm Pieck, Ernest Meyer, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin. Levi's moderate approach to communism increased the size of the party.
Ernst Thalmann was elected to the Reichstag. In the summer of 1921 Thälmann went as a representative of the German Communist Party to the 3rd Congress of the Comintern in Moscow and met Lenin. In June 1922 Thälmann survived an assassination attempt at his flat. Over the next few years he established himself as one of the most important figures in the German Communist Party.
Ernest Meyer now became the leader of the German Communist Party. Meyer returned to Moscow in 1922 as a member of the German delegation to the 4th World Congress of the Comintern. However, his influence went into decline with the emergence of Thälmann, who replaced Meyer as the Chairman of the KPD in 1925. Ernst Thälmann was the candidate for the German Presidency in 1925.
Thälmann was the party's presidential candidate in 1932. He won 13.2 of the vote compared to the 30.1 received by Adolf Hitler. In January 1933, Thälmann proposed that the German Communist Party (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) should organise a general strike in order to remove Hitler. When these negotiations broke down, Thälmann called for the violent overthrow of Hitler's government.
After the Reichstag Fire on 27th February, 1933, the Nazi Party launched a wave of violence against members of the German Communist Party and other left-wing opponents of the regime. This included Thälmann who was arrested and imprisoned on 3rd March 1933.
Ernst Thälmann spent over eleven years in solitary confinement. He was executed in Buchenwald Concentration Camp on 18th August 1944. A few days later the Nazi government announced that Thälmann and Rudolf Breitscheid had been killed in an Allied bombing attack.
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If anyone else got banned for ban evasion please let me know their username so we can look into unbanning them. For the rabid zionists please report some of their comments. I'll be real it was a long day for me and I missed that some werent banned as fast as they could've been. It was not intentional
I understand it was a long day and things slip through the cracks, but can I get a direct answer as to why Nakoichi is still a mod in the com after wishing death upon another user?
I don't know how else to interpret this other than Nakoichi is telling them to die. Suicide baiting is against the site rules for good reason. Mods really need to be held to a higher standard that the average user due to their position of power. It really sends mixed messages when mods are able to get away with this sort of thing with no consequences beyond having their comment removed.
It seems like whenever the question of de-modding them is brought up the mods/admins dance around the question.
So why is it acceptable for a mod to be issuing what can only be read as a death threat?
Hello and sorry for the delay.
I danced around demodding them because I was giving everyone on the admin team a chance to speak before I acted.
As of now they have been demodded, I agree that mods are held to a higher standard as stated in the code of conduct. This needed to have happened when the comment was made but clearly a break down in the relaying occurred. I will look into how that happened to fix it.
I agree with you that making a death threat or encouraging suicide is an unacceptable comment.
Thank you for commenting and holding us accountable
Thank you for your response.
I do want to make it clear that I don't have anything against them personally, I haven't talked with them enough to have an opinion one way or the other, but death threats/suicide encouragement should be taken seriously and I'm thankful that action has been taken in this case.
I appreciate the time and effort that mods/admins put into the site to make it a safe welcoming place for leftists and I think it's a shame that there is this divide between users and the moderation team due to perceptions of favouritism/preferred treatment.