Hugo Urbahns

Hugo Urbahns
Leader of the Leninbund
In office
?–1939
Member of the Reichstag
In office
1924–?
Personal details
Born(1890-02-18)February 18, 1890
Lieth, German Empire
DiedNovember 18, 1946(1946-11-18) (aged 56)
Stockholm, Sweden
Political partyLeninbund (1928-)
Communist Party of Germany (-1926)
Spartacus League

Hugo Urbahns (1890, Lieth – 1946, Stockholm) was a German communist revolutionary and politician.[1]

He was involved in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the 1920s. He was jailed for his role in the Hamburg Uprising of 1923, and spent time on hunger strike.[2][3]

He was expelled from the KPD in the late 1920s, and became a leader of the Leninbund, a left split from the KPD.[4]

For a time he had links with Leon Trotsky, but they drifted apart over a number of issues, including Urbahns' development of "third campist" positions that the Soviet Union was no longer a workers' state.[5][6][2][7][3]

  1. ^ Hoffrogge, Ralf (2017-07-17). A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895 – 1940). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-33726-8.
  2. ^ a b Frank, Pierre The Long March of the Trotskyists: A History of the Fourth International Chapter 3
  3. ^ a b Alexander, Robert Jackson (1991). International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1066-2.
  4. ^ "Urbahns, Hugo | Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur". www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  5. ^ Twiss, Thomas M. (2014-05-08). Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-26953-8.
  6. ^ Tucker, Robert C. (2017-07-05). Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-48826-6.
  7. ^ Trotsky, Leon An Open Letter to All Members of the Leninbund (1933)