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Richard Scheringer, the KPD and the Politics of Class and Nation in Germany, 1922–1969

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2005

TIMOTHY S. BROWN
TIMOTHY S. BROWN
Affiliation:
Department of History, Northeastern University, 249 Meserve Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. [email protected]. The author wishes to thank Gerald D. Feldman, Diethelm Prowe and James G. Ward for their comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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Abstract

This article examines the life and times of Richard Scheringer, an army officer and supporter of Adolf Hitler who became famous during the early 1930s for his high-profile conversion to communism. Known in the closing years of the Weimar Republic as a point-man for Communist efforts to win support from the radical right, Scheringer survived the Third Reich to become a leading figure in the postwar Communist Party. His well-documented but little-studied career, bridging critical caesurae of modern Germany history, highlights the unique political constellation of the interwar period, demonstrating fundamental continuities in the relationship of German communism to the nation before and after 1945.

Type
Research Article
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 317 - 346
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2005

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