Memel Workers Party

Memel Workers Party (German: Memelländische Arbeiterpartei) was a communist organisation in the Memel Territory in the 1920s.[1] The party was founded in 1925.[2] Hermann Suhrau and Adolf Monien served as chairmen of the party.[2] In the 1927 election, the party got 3900 votes (7.2%) and won two seats in the parliament of the territory.[3]

Little is known about the group, and its relations with the German and Lithuanian communist parties. Soviet historical research says very little about the group, and on the rare occasions that communist activities in the Memel Territories were mention it claimed that the activities had been under influence of the Communist Party of Lithuania.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich, Germany) (1958). Gutachten. Selbstverlag. p. 395.
  2. 1 2 Mads Ole Balling (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest: Ungarn, Jugoslawien, Rumänien, Slowakei, Karpatenukraine, Kroatien, Memelländischer Landtag, Schlesischer Landtag, komparative Analyse, Quellen und Literatur, Register. Dokumentation Verlag. p. 698. ISBN 978-87-983829-5-9.
  3. ↑ Memelgebiet: Wahl zum 2. Landtag 1927
  4. ↑ Nordost-Archiv: Joachim Tauber: Das Memelgebiet (1919-1944) in der deutschen und litauischen Historiographie nach 1945
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