Communist Party of Germany (1990)

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Communist Party of Germany (in German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is a political party in Germany. It was founded in Berlin in 1990.

The party chairman was Werner Schleese. He resigned in April 2006. The current chairman is Wolfgang Fittinger, the former chairman of the national association of the KPD in Brandenburg

KPD publishes Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag). The youth wing is known as Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (Young Communist League of Germany), which was founded 2002.

Ahead of the 2005 Bundestag elections, the party appealed for an electoral union with the German Communist Party (DKP) and the Left Party. This provoked a split, resulting in the formation of the Communist Party of Germany (Bolshevik).

[edit] Electoral history

1990 Volkskammer: 8 819 votes (0.1%), stood in 12 out of 15 constituencies
2002 Bundestag
2004 Municipal elections in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. In Zeitz the party got 1.9% and one seat in the municipal council.
2004 Landtag Thuringia: 0.2%