Ernst Thälmann
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Ernst Thälmann | |
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 Portrait of Ernst Thälmann. | |
| Born |
Ernst Thälmann 16 April 1886 Hamburg, German Empire |
| Died |
18 August 1944 Buchenwald concentration camp, Nazi Germany |
| Cause of death | Execution by the fascists |
| Nationality | German |
| Ideology |
Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Proletarian internationalism |
| Political party | KPD |
Ernst Thälmann (16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist leader, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and a revolutionary martyr executed by the Nazis at Buchenwald concentration camp. He is remembered as a proletarian fighter who resisted both fascism and opportunism, embodying the uncompromising revolutionary line in Germany.