DAUMIG, ERNST
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DA¨UMIG, ERNST (1866–1922), politician; chief advocate for founding a
Ra¨terepublik rather than a parliamentary democracy. Born in Merseburg, he
failed to learn a trade in his youth and during 1887–1898 served consecutively
in the German army and the French Foreign Legion. In 1898, having returned
to Germany, he joined the SPD. For several years he assisted with socialist
educational programs while working for the SPD press. When he was offered
a position in 1911 with Vorwa¨rts,* he relocated to Berlin* and focused his pen
on militarism and the need to educate German workers. An opponent of Party
policy from the outbreak of war, he resigned his post in 1916 and became editor
of Mitteilungs-Blatt, a substitute weekly published before the official founding
of the USPD. A member of the USPD's radical Left, he won growing influence
during 1917–1918 as he agitated for a Bolshevik solution in Germany; he argued
that no discussion could discount the new Russia where the ‘‘proletariat has
captured political power, has the powers of the government in its hands, and is
proceeding to realize all the great socialist and democratic goals.'' After serving
during March–November 1918 as USPD secretary, he sat with the executive of
the Berlin Workers' and Soldiers' Councils.*
Although Da¨umig was earmarked for cochairman of the USPD in March
1919, his selection was blocked by Hugo Haase,* only to be confirmed in December
1919 after Haase's assassination. After Da¨umig entered the Reichstag*
in June 1920, he represented the USPD in Moscow at the second congress of
the Comintern. His subsequent counsel at the October 1920 Party Congress that
the USPD accept Lenin's provisions for entering the Comintern inspired a Party
split. Da¨umig thereupon joined the United Communist Party (VKPD) and served
as cochairman with Paul Levi.* Despite his prestige, he soon lost influence due
to conflicts over Party tactics. In January 1922 he resigned and rejoined the
USPD in April. He died three months later.
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