Heinrich Laufenberg

Heinrich Laufenberg
Heinrich Laufenberg (left) in the Hamburg City Hall, 1918
Born
Heinrich Laufenberg

(1872-02-19)19 February 1872
Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia
Died3 February 1932(1932-02-03) (aged 59)
Hamburg, Weimar Republic
NationalityPrussian
CitizenshipGerman
OccupationAcademic
Known forPolitician
Political partyCentre Party (1902–1904)
Social Democratic Party of Germany (1904–mid-1910s)
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (mid-1910s–1919)
Communist Party of Germany (Jan–Oct 1919)
Communist Workers Party of Germany (Apr–Aug 1920)

Heinrich Laufenberg (19 January 1872 – 3 February 1932) was a leading German communist and one of the first to develop the idea of National Bolshevism. Laufenberg was a history academic by profession[1] and was also known by the pseudonym Karl Erler.[2]

  1. ^ Pierre Broué, Ian Birchall, Eric D. Weitz, John Archer, The German Revolution, 1917-1923, Haymarket Books, 2006, p. 66
  2. ^ Vladimir Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder