Conciliator faction
The conciliators were an intraparty opposition movement within the Communist Party in the period of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
The conciliators emerged in the mid 1920s from the so-called middle group at Ernst Meyer of the Communist Party, which from 1926 to 1928 formed the leadership of the KPD together with the fraction of Ernst Thalmann. Leading people in the flow next to Meyer were Arthur Ewert, Hugo Eberlein, Henry Susskind, Gerhart Eisler and Georg Schumann; was strongly represented the flow under trade union cadres, intellectuals, and in full-time apparatus of the Communist Party. Similar to the "right" wing of the party around August Thalheimer and Heinrich Brandler entered the conciliators for a united front with the SPD and active participation in the free trade unions and were the 1928 forced ultra-left line ( social fascism and RGO policy) opposed to; unlike the "rights" you exercised no criticism of the dominance of the Communist Party in the Comintern, refusing a party split at any price from. However, they performed for a minimum of one open exchange of views within the ECCI, making them politically Stalin stood in the way.
After inter alia, of the conciliators jointly operated short-term dismissal of Ernst Thalmann from the party chairmanship in the Wittorf affair in the autumn of 1928, the Wedding, Party in the summer of 1929 and the death of Ernst Meyer's early 1930 lost the conciliators a large part of their influence in the Communist Party and were in this only concealed act. Some conciliators were excluded or ousted even from the party, were formed independent Versöhnlergruppen to Hans Westermann of Hamburg and the Committee of Proletarian unit with a focus in Hannover, others like Heinrich Stahmer joined the Socialist Workers Party of Germany or the SPD in.
After 1933, both the independent Versöhnlergruppen, and partially remaining in the party groups like the Berlin opposition to Charles people and Krausz ( in the Heinz Brandt was also a member ) on the anti-fascist resistance operated. In exile, there was a Versöhnlergruppe, which published the journal spark. As an organized flow of the conciliators were disintegrated primarily due to the repression by the Gestapo in 1940, prominent members as Eberlein and Susskind attacked the Stalinist purges victims, surviving family members joined after 1945 mostly KPD and SED, in Germany some also of the SPD of.