Ernst Thälmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 16th April, 1886. His friend, Wilhelm Pieck, later recalled: "As the son of a class-conscious worker organised in the Social-Democratic Party, Ernst Thälmann came into the Socialist movement in his early youth. He was hardly sixteen years old when he joined the Social-Democratic Party. A member of the Transport Workers Union he joined the Social Democrat Party in 1903.
Friedrich Ebert now replaced him as leader of the party. Like most socialists in Germany, Ebert was initially opposed to the idea of Germany going to war. However, once the First World War had started, he ordered the SDP members in the Reichstag to support the war effort.
Thälmann disagreed with the policies of Friedrich Ebert but he was recruited into the German Army in 1915 and during the First World War fought on the Western Front. He deserted in 1918 and when he arrived back in Germany he joined the Independent Socialist Party (ISP). Other members included Kurt Eisner, Karl Kautsky, Julius Leber, Rudolf Breitscheild and Rudolf Hilferding. Ernst Thälmann was active in the German Revolution in Hamburg that began on 29th October 1918.
Thälmann was on the left-wing of the ISP and was a leading figure in the merger with the German Communist Party (KPD) in November 1920. The following month he was elected to the Central Committee of the KPD. Paul Levi was the leader of the KPD. Other prominent members included Willie Munzenberg, Ernst Toller, Walther Ulbricht, Hermann Duncker, Hugo Eberlein, Paul Frölich, Wilhelm Pieck, Ernest Meyer, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin. Levi's moderate approach to communism increased the size of the party.
Ernst Thalmann was elected to the Reichstag. In the summer of 1921 Thälmann went as a representative of the German Communist Party to the 3rd Congress of the Comintern in Moscow and met Lenin. In June 1922 Thälmann survived an assassination attempt at his flat. Over the next few years he established himself as one of the most important figures in the German Communist Party.
Ernest Meyer now became the leader of the German Communist Party. Meyer returned to Moscow in 1922 as a member of the German delegation to the 4th World Congress of the Comintern. However, his influence went into decline with the emergence of Thälmann, who replaced Meyer as the Chairman of the KPD in 1925. Ernst Thälmann was the candidate for the German Presidency in 1925.
Thälmann was the party's presidential candidate in 1932. He won 13.2 of the vote compared to the 30.1 received by Adolf Hitler. In January 1933, Thälmann proposed that the German Communist Party (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) should organise a general strike in order to remove Hitler. When these negotiations broke down, Thälmann called for the violent overthrow of Hitler's government.
After the Reichstag Fire on 27th February, 1933, the Nazi Party launched a wave of violence against members of the German Communist Party and other left-wing opponents of the regime. This included Thälmann who was arrested and imprisoned on 3rd March 1933.
Ernst Thälmann spent over eleven years in solitary confinement. He was executed in Buchenwald Concentration Camp on 18th August 1944. A few days later the Nazi government announced that Thälmann and Rudolf Breitscheid had been killed in an Allied bombing attack.
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So I should be happy because something good that I've been waiting on for a long time is happening (me finding a place to call my own), but it legit feels like life doesn't want to fuck with me.I went in to work early to try and clear out my backlog of tasks and was greeted with work left over from the previous night. Eh, alright. It wasn't anything too complicated, so I get on that and work on my own tasks. Quickly get buried under more work after we open. I'm expecting the next person to come in and they call out. Would have been nice to have been notified sooner since they had left early the previous day, so its not like they didn't know they might have to call out.
Ask my "friend" and former co-worker who is now at another location for a couple things I need for the work I'm doing. That's fine, but then when I let them know I need to send work their way because I'm out of a part they tell me not to send anyone over because they're swamped. Ok... they've got a full crew for the day and I'm doing solo work. Didn't see the message in time anyway, but then I check the work log for their location and I had done just as much work as the whole team over there had to that point. Then later in a group chat between us and another friend they're joking about how they hadn't done all that much work in the day. Ah, yeah cool. I'm over hear stressed the fuck out and we're just going to straight up lie about our days now. Nice, thanks for the support.
I'm just in a fucking mood right now. I have co-workers that I can't rely on for anything and I'm shouldering most of the load. And with everything I've had going on both at work and at home over the past month, on top of growing distant from the few friends I had gotten close with over this past year I just fucking can't. I really do wish I had someone that I knew I could vent to IRL, but at the same time I just had acting all down and out about shit in front of people. I've gotten so used to masking that anytime I open up to people about how I'm feeling, particularly when I'm struggling, it just feels unnatural and like I'm just burdening people with my shit.