DAHLEM, FRANZ
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DAHLEM, FRANZ (1892–1981), politician; among those who split with the
USPD in 1920 to join the KPD. Born in the Lorraine city of Rohrbach, he
entered Cologne's SPD after completing business studies in 1913. A soldier in
World War I, he joined the breakaway USPD in 1917 and was later a member
of Cologne's Workers' and Soldiers' Council.* When in October 1920 the
USPD split over Lenin's invitation to enter the Comintern, Dahlem joined those
who accepted the summons. He was soon editing the Sozialistische Republik
and was elected in 1921 to the Prussian Landtag. In 1923 he became general
secretary of the Rhineland's KPD and then went to Berlin* in 1924 to enter the
editorial staff of Rote Fahne, the KPD's flagship newspaper.* He was promoted
to the Zentralkomitee in 1927 and entered the Politburo in 1928. During 1928–
1933 he sat in the Reichstag.*
As part of the KPD's radical Left, Dahlem led the Revolutionary Trade-Union
Opposition (Revolutiona¨re Gewerkschaftsopposition, RGO) in 1931; the next
year, however, he was censured for supporting Heinz Neumann.* (The KPD's
Neumann wing, which had acquired a realistic fear of the NSDAP, began shifting
its attacks from the SPD—Moscow's ‘‘social fascists''—to the Nazis.) Escaping
Germany in April 1933, he later led the German Communists engaged
in the Spanish Civil War. He was arrested in Paris in 1939 and was released to
the Gestapo in 1942, but survived World War II at Mauthausen. He was active
in the German Democratic Republic.
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