Hugo Urbahns Explained

Hugo Urbahns
Term Start1:	?
Term End1:	1939
Term Start2:	1924
Term End2:	1928
Birth Date:	18 February 1890
Party:	Leninbund (1928-) Communist Party of Germany (-1926) Spartacus League

Hugo Urbahns (1890, Lieth  - 1946, Stockholm) was a German communist revolutionary and politician.^[1]

He was involved in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the 1920s. He was jailed for his role in the Hamburg Uprising of 1923, and spent time on hunger strike.^{[2] [3]}

He was expelled from the KPD in the late 1920s, and became a leader of the Leninbund, a left split from the KPD.^[4]

For a time he had links with Leon Trotsky, but they drifted apart over a number of issues, including Urbahns' development of "third campist" positions that the Soviet Union was no longer a workers' state.^{[5] [6] [2] [7] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Hoffrogge, Ralf. A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895 – 1940). 2017-07-17. BRILL. 978-90-04-33726-8. en.
2. [Pierre Frank|Frank, Pierre]
3. Book: Alexander, Robert Jackson. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. 1991. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-1066-2. en.
4. Web site: Urbahns, Hugo Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. 2020-07-09. www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de.
5. Book: Twiss, Thomas M.. Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy. 2014-05-08. BRILL. 978-90-04-26953-8. en.
6. Book: Tucker, Robert C.. Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. 2017-07-05. Routledge. 978-1-351-48826-6. en.
7. Trotsky, Leon An Open Letter to All Members of the Leninbund (1933)