INDEPENDENT SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS SPONSOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400420011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germny (British Zone and &-14) q Aj DATE DISTR. Q. -iilw 1949
:.PBJECT Independent Social Denoe .tie Farty ~ 00%,
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The planned policy of the Independent Social Democratic Party (UnabI ngige
'ozialdamokratisclis Partci.-USTD) ononsored Ileinz
a rarprochement between et and ~legt , An explanatory letter to that effect
has already boon tran'm .tted by ;ax Fechner to the Russians, who let it be
understood that such a policy %wi d receive their full support. In an effort
to gain support, Kz ger also approached the followers of the :-:arxistisclae
A. boiteremeinschaft within the SPD, as well as editors of eaetern??sector nows-
y?apc re, such as the T iteznreos . the Berliner Z at , and the TfiXlIqhl
Rundschaiac:.
Since the and of hostilities, Kamer has been successively :;ayor of Berlin..
Hormsdorf, then local editor of tha Sozialsemok,} and Press Chief of Schleswig.
^iolstein under ianister-Pry sieent L%demann. He became an intimate of Erich Arp,
:linister of Ag rigucture, whose cS.ose contacts with the KPD and with SIM function..
r?ies in Berlin. In particular, had become a source of friction and Grave dissen..
;Sion between the government and the SPD. Shortly after Arp left the I.:inistry of
gricuituro &%,-w too resumed from his post. lie returned to Berlin, but
continued to keep in close contact with Aarp. According to Arp, the new party also
has the support of K tber, 1?4nister of the Interior, and Pohle, formerly :sinister
of Labor in the Schleiswig..Ilolsvsin goverment. Krt ger and Ark had mutual friends
in the former Russian Zor-e SPD, Tike Ilex Fechner and Fritz Schreiber, who have
become prominent SEP officials. During the last few weeks, Kr'hger, following the
advice of Arp, tried to met, in t uoh with important KPD officials in Ferlin, among
whom was Dr,. Kurt Fischer. Presidlant of the German Administration of the Interior.
At the present tins}, Krtger is a gi ber of the board of directors of the Helmut
on Gerlach Societe and of the Kf11.turbund, where he maintains close contact with
Dr., Carl Helfrich and Alexander Ahuech, 1[rhCer would like to publish a newspaper
call it Walt s I~ionta r.. This is the names of a 'sell known pacifist, :ief~
newspaper, which wins published in the twenties by Helmut. von Gerlach,, now deraased, .
tie hopes to J
net approval for the j gper from French r litaiy authorities in Berlin.
Fechner approved this plan 'beforehand saying that as long as it originated with
Kr r, all Russian a_t eiicie,a would give their sanction. Fechner, who antis as inter
iiediarv between Krlirerr and the R,. eians, is confident that Kifterc s undertaking
11 be more successful than sim ar campaigns undertaken in the past by other
:corner SPD members
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