Hugo Urbahns

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

Hugo Urbahns
Urbahns c. 1924
Leader of the Leninbund
In office 1928–1939
Member of the Reichstag
In office 1924–1928
Personal details
Born	(1890-02-18)February 18, 1890 Lieth, German Empire
Died	November 18, 1946(1946-11-18) (aged 56) Stockholm, Sweden
Political party	Leninbund (1928-) Communist Party of Germany (-1926) Spartacus League

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]}

References

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