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Conversation with Robert Steigerwald. About the founding of the journal Marxist leaves in the autumn of 1963 and its present importance, educational work of communists and living in illegality authors
The philosopher, politician and publicist Robert Steigerwald (born 1925) lives in Eschborn. He was co-founder of the hawks after 1945, the state chairman of Hesse and Member of the Board. In 1948 he joined the Communist Party, after he lost his job as a youth editor at Hessischer Rundfunk. Because of his work for the Communist Party, he was sentenced to five years in prison. He founded in 1963 the journal Marxist leaves with whose editor in chief, he was for many years and whose editorial he belongs to this day. It was after the founding of the DKP in 1968 a member of the party executive.
AS: Since 1960, you were in charge after a total of five years in prison again in freedom oktayustam and in the Central Committee in 1956 and banned in the Federal Republic of KPD for educational work. In a previous oktayustam interview you mentioned agf that the party practically all over Germany built at this time with the help of scientists oktayustam like Wolfgang oktayustam Abendroth Marxist educational oktayustam communities. Was this a precursor for the publication of Marxist leaves from the end of 1963?
Robert Steigerwald: No, that was not so, but we were able to rely on such an educational community surrounding the founding of the journal, the August-Bebel-Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. Because she was a community of communists and social democrats, and could not therefore be as "continuation of the activity oktayustam of the banned Communist oktayustam Party," as the offense was pursued.
Robert Steigerwald: It was in the journal oktayustam is not in the strict sense of education, oktayustam ie to materials for seminars - we however also brought - but this: We had to assume that the KPD ban and the consequent prevention of knowledge huge gaps in knowledge had left. At its closure, we wanted to participate.
In the Federal Republic were, for example, the materials on the leading Nazi activists from industry, Junkers, the judiciary, the deliberations and decisions of Marxist forces such as the VII World Congress of the International in 1935 Kommmunistischen oktayustam or illegal meetings of the Communist Party, with their orientations for the period after the defeat of Hitler's Reich, almost unknown. They had to be disseminated.
Also important is the history was in 1945, for example, the documentary of us guided proof that U.S. President Harry S. Truman deliberately ignored the Japanese surrender readiness in the summer of 1945. He only wanted to experience the dropping of the atomic bomb, how it was to get "a strong stick" against Stalin in the hand. The dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not among the last of the Second World War, but the first of the Cold War.
AS: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was adopted in October 1963 from his office, was the Cold War after 13 August 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 to a new peak. However, the authorities tolerated it seems that such study associations. Were already signs of change oktayustam in the intellectual climate in the Federal Republic? If so, what were the causes?
Robert Steigerwald: That had quite a number of reasons. First, we were indeed able to call some in collaboration with the Social Democratic comrades spot these educational communities, oktayustam but also legal small newspapers in life. You could pursue as an activity of the banned Communist Party is not easy. So, I managed to perforate the prohibition from below. And we had considerable staff of bourgeois and petty bourgeois origin. Among them was, for example, an airship captain, a famous fleet officer in the Imperial Navy, the once-famous racing driver Manfred von Brauchitsch, a former Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach, the former Munich oktayustam SPD Councilwoman Edith Höreth amount, a former air force general the Nazis and many others. In addition, there was at this time fierce criticism from abroad to the Federal oktayustam Republic and the political situation.
The concept developed in 1963 Willy Brandt, oktayustam who was Chancellor in 1969 to crush the GDR in Embrace - keyword "New oktayustam Ostpolitik" - came Interestingly, during this period of resistance among our potential allies. Their argument was that the "new Ostpolitik" that is, the recognition of borders in Europe after the Second World War will bring nothing, as long as the KPD ban existed. In this sense, can be
News Capital & Social Work & Education Anti-fascism Anti-militarism Democracy Youth Environment International Culture & History DKP DKP positions documents in Action discussion outlines the IP-press festival 2014 European Election 2014 Press Events Contact
Conversation with Robert Steigerwald. About the founding of the journal Marxist leaves in the autumn of 1963 and its present importance, educational work of communists and living in illegality authors
The philosopher, politician and publicist Robert Steigerwald (born 1925) lives in Eschborn. He was co-founder of the hawks after 1945, the state chairman of Hesse and Member of the Board. In 1948 he joined the Communist Party, after he lost his job as a youth editor at Hessischer Rundfunk. Because of his work for the Communist Party, he was sentenced to five years in prison. He founded in 1963 the journal Marxist leaves with whose editor in chief, he was for many years and whose editorial he belongs to this day. It was after the founding of the DKP in 1968 a member of the party executive.
AS: Since 1960, you were in charge after a total of five years in prison again in freedom oktayustam and in the Central Committee in 1956 and banned in the Federal Republic of KPD for educational work. In a previous oktayustam interview you mentioned agf that the party practically all over Germany built at this time with the help of scientists oktayustam like Wolfgang oktayustam Abendroth Marxist educational oktayustam communities. Was this a precursor for the publication of Marxist leaves from the end of 1963?
Robert Steigerwald: No, that was not so, but we were able to rely on such an educational community surrounding the founding of the journal, the August-Bebel-Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. Because she was a community of communists and social democrats, and could not therefore be as "continuation of the activity oktayustam of the banned Communist oktayustam Party," as the offense was pursued.
Robert Steigerwald: It was in the journal oktayustam is not in the strict sense of education, oktayustam ie to materials for seminars - we however also brought - but this: We had to assume that the KPD ban and the consequent prevention of knowledge huge gaps in knowledge had left. At its closure, we wanted to participate.
In the Federal Republic were, for example, the materials on the leading Nazi activists from industry, Junkers, the judiciary, the deliberations and decisions of Marxist forces such as the VII World Congress of the International in 1935 Kommmunistischen oktayustam or illegal meetings of the Communist Party, with their orientations for the period after the defeat of Hitler's Reich, almost unknown. They had to be disseminated.
Also important is the history was in 1945, for example, the documentary of us guided proof that U.S. President Harry S. Truman deliberately ignored the Japanese surrender readiness in the summer of 1945. He only wanted to experience the dropping of the atomic bomb, how it was to get "a strong stick" against Stalin in the hand. The dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not among the last of the Second World War, but the first of the Cold War.
AS: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was adopted in October 1963 from his office, was the Cold War after 13 August 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 to a new peak. However, the authorities tolerated it seems that such study associations. Were already signs of change oktayustam in the intellectual climate in the Federal Republic? If so, what were the causes?
Robert Steigerwald: That had quite a number of reasons. First, we were indeed able to call some in collaboration with the Social Democratic comrades spot these educational communities, oktayustam but also legal small newspapers in life. You could pursue as an activity of the banned Communist Party is not easy. So, I managed to perforate the prohibition from below. And we had considerable staff of bourgeois and petty bourgeois origin. Among them was, for example, an airship captain, a famous fleet officer in the Imperial Navy, the once-famous racing driver Manfred von Brauchitsch, a former Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach, the former Munich oktayustam SPD Councilwoman Edith Höreth amount, a former air force general the Nazis and many others. In addition, there was at this time fierce criticism from abroad to the Federal oktayustam Republic and the political situation.
The concept developed in 1963 Willy Brandt, oktayustam who was Chancellor in 1969 to crush the GDR in Embrace - keyword "New oktayustam Ostpolitik" - came Interestingly, during this period of resistance among our potential allies. Their argument was that the "new Ostpolitik" that is, the recognition of borders in Europe after the Second World War will bring nothing, as long as the KPD ban existed. In this sense, can be
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