Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany

Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
FoundedApril 1917; 107 years ago (1917-04)
DissolvedNovember 1931; 93 years ago (1931-11)
Split fromSPD
Succeeded bySAPD
NewspaperDie Freiheit
Membership120,000 (January 1918)
750,000 (Spring 1920)
IdeologyCentrist Marxism
Democratic socialism
Pacifism
Political positionLeft-wing
International affiliationInternational Working Union of Socialist Parties
Colors  Red
1919 USPD election poster
On the edge of the Leipzig congress of the USPD in December 1919 recorded group photo with members of the National Executive, other prominent party members and the guest delegates of the SDAP Austrian Friedrich Adler (fourth from left), including Arthur Crispien, Wilhelm Dittmann, Lore Agnes, Richard Lipinski, William Bock, Alfred Henke, Frederick Geyer, Curt Geyer, Fritz Zubeil, Fritz Kunert, Georg Ledebour and Emanuel Wurm

The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, USPD) was a short-lived political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The organization was established in 1917 as the result of a split of anti-war members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), from the left of the party as well as the centre and the right. The organization attempted to chart a course between electorally oriented reformism on the one hand and Bolshevist revolutionism on the other.[citation needed] After several splits and mergers, the last part of the organization was terminated in 1931 through merger with the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD).