Arthur Goldstein
Arthur Goldstein ( born March 18, 1887 in Lipine; † 1941 or 1942) was a journalist and communist politician.
Life
Goldstein joined the SPD in 1914, standing there on the left wing, he joined the USPD in 1917, and later the Spartacus League and was one of the founding members of the KPD. There he was seen as supporters anti -parliamentary positions and in 1920 co-founder of KAP and took these for a short time to the Executive Committee of the Comintern in Moscow, he also was responsible for the Communist party newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung, together with Karl Schroeder and Adolf Dethmann. Under the pseudonym " steel ", he was one of the signatories of the draft program of the KAP, which had been written by Herman Gorter. The first Executive Committee of CAPD consisted of Emil Sachs ( " Erdmann " ), Friedrich Wendel ( " Friedrich" ) and Arthur Goldstein ( " steel "). Goldstein was an active together with Schröder and the Hamburg Dethmann opponents direction and their representatives within the KAP, Heinrich Laufenberg and Fritz Wolff home, representing a national communism. At the second congress of the KAP from 1 - 4th August 1920 in Berlin-Weissensee Goldstein sat by the separation of the Hamburg direction. The 2nd World Congress of the Comintern took on CAPD, this occurred in September 1921 again.
Goldstein 1922 was excluded together with Karl Schroeder as a leading member of the Essenes direction from the KAP. He got in touch with Paul Levi on, worked at the magazine Our way with 1923 and stepped back into the SPD.
In Berlin he formed in 1928 together with Schröder founded by Levi 1924 Social Science Association to a council communist cadre organization to which constituted the core of the / 32 Red fighters founded in 1931, where Goldstein acted as an expert on economic issues. At the same time he published in Socialist newspapers such as the forward and maintained contacts with other organizations of the left, so the Trotskyist Left Opposition.
In 1933 after the transfer of power to the NSDAP Goldstein fled to Paris; after an unsuccessful attempt to establish a foreign head of resistance movement Red fighter, he joined the Trotskyist IKD, in their exile Board, he was temporarily a member.
According to the documents present in Auschwitz Arthur Goldstein was deported to Auschwitz on June 23, 1943 in a mass transport of 1018 Jews from Drancy (France). There he was immediately selected after arrival on 25 June 1943 further 517 Jews murdered in the gas chamber by the SS.
Works
- Nation and International. A critical examination of the Hamburg communism. Berlin 1920.