Ernst Meyer | |
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Member of the Landtag of Prussia | |
In office 1928–1930 | |
In office 1921–1924 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Prostken, German Empire | 10 July 1887
Died | 2 February 1930 Potsdam, Weimar Republic | (aged 42)
Political party | Communist Party of Germany (1919-) Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Alma mater | University of Königsberg |
Ernst Meyer (10 July 1887 in Prostken – 2 February 1930 in Potsdam) was a German Communist political activist and politician and a chairman of the KPD. He is best remembered as a founding member and top leader of the Communist Party of Germany and as the leader of that party's membership in the Prussian Landtag. A political opponent of Ernst Thälmann, Meyer was moved out of the top party leadership after 1928, not long before his death of tuberculosis-related pneumonia at the age of 43.