Communist Party of Germany (in German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) is a minor political party in Germany, one of several who claim the KPD name. It was founded in Berlin in 1990.

The party chairman was Werner Schleese. He resigned in April 2006. The current chairman is Dieter Rolle.

KPD publishes a monthly newspaper, 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

Bundestag

The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...

 elections, the party unsuccessfully appealed for an electoral union with the German Communist Party

German Communist Party

The German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist party in Germany.-History:The DKP was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956...

 (DKP) and the Left Party

Left Party (Germany)

The Party of Democratic Socialism was a democratic socialist political party active in Germany from 1989 to 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party , which ruled the German Democratic Republic until 1990. From 1990 through to 2005, the PDS had been seen as the left-wing...

. This provoked a split, resulting in the formation of the Communist Party of Germany (Bolshevik), which disbanded itself in 2011.
KPD's line can be described as Stalinist

Stalinism

Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...

, with some influence from North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

n Juche

Juche

Juche or Chuch'e is a Korean word usually translated as "self-reliance." In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , "Juche" refers specifically to a political thesis of Kim Il-sung, the Juche Idea, that identifies the Korean masses as the masters of the country's development...

 and Songun

Songun

Sŏn'gun, often spelled Songun, is North Korea's "Military First" policy, which prioritizes the Korean People's Army in the affairs of state and allocates national resources to the army first...

 doctrines, which are enthusiastically supported by the organisation.

After the reformed SED-PDS had expelled Erich Honecker

Erich Honecker

Erich Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well from Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976....

, the latter joined the ranks of the small KPD.

Electoral History

Election	Year	Votes (Percentage)	Seats
Volkskammer Volkskammer The People's Chamber was the unicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic . From its founding in 1949 until the first free elections on 18 March 1990, all members of the Volkskammer were elected on a slate controlled by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , called the National Front...	1990	8.819 (0.1%)	0
Bundestag Bundestag The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...	2002	1.624 (0.0%)	0
Municipal elections in Zeitz Zeitz Zeitz is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Weiße Elster, in the middle of the triangle of the federal states Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony.-History:...	2004	?? (1.9%)	1
Landtag Landtag A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...  Thuringia Thuringia The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....	2004	1.842 (0.2%)	0
Landtag Landtag A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...  Sachsen-Anhalt	2006	957 (0.1%) (Together with the DKP)	0
Municipal elections in Zeitz Zeitz Zeitz is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Weiße Elster, in the middle of the triangle of the federal states Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony.-History:...	2009	?? (1.7%)	1
Landtag Landtag A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...  Sachsen-Anhalt	2011	1.653 (0.2%)	0

See also

• Communist Party of Germany (disambiguation)
  Communist Party of Germany (disambiguation)
  Communist Party of Germany is a name that has been and is being used by several organizations in Germany....
  
  
• historical, original KPD
  Communist Party of Germany
  The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956...
  
  , founded in 1919.

External links

• Party website