ULBRICHT'S POSITION AND HIS COMMUNIST OPPOSITION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2011
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• Publication Date: September 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT ;."?,E `,PORT
COUNTRY Last Germany
SUBJECT Ulbric tas. Position and' His C uni: t
Opposi,,ian
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STATE T~v
1. An& Paukert& demotion has increased the anxiety of the ant,i-Ulbricht group;
in the East German SED. UlbrichtIs fortunes are fluctuating with the ups
and downs of the Soviet offensive for Cex n un fication.. His enemmiea were
looking. forward to a change and hoped that Ulbri_oht, on instructions of the
Kremlin, would be forced, to take an oppositionist into his Secretariat e This.,
however, has not materialized, arid Ulbri.chtas position in Moscow seems. to. have
The Merkerites are now one group in opposition to tlhricht. Gerhart E:i.:ler~ in
strained relations with Merker, is for ping another group. Bct there are amm6--rous;
other oppositionist circles, e.g., around, { trto Buchwaa,ld, President of the., Sa:on
Diet, around Karl 4',y Secretary of the Mecklenburg Fa? ty, etc, The ccraing
men, Wilhelm 'hisser and Vincenz Yhbel er, have declared to the "anl.,iyFascir ts" ,
who also are anti-Ulbricht, that they will favor aa. milder policy against the
"anti Fascists" inside the SE]) when the East German A:c y i i"onre-1 N
3. Recent Ioacow instructions,, however, ar: .:i?t to ;irt?e-vv!nt x?apprcc-hement between
the Zaisser Muell er group and. the anti:.-,U1bz`ich_t :. oupr They en ourage Ulbrickbt
to eliminate unreliable elements fron. 11-he: Party,. ~:.rad enti 1/ s4 _I.x~t,~Bk ax., n
regarded by tAem as unfit for otfic?e:K? T :.i au W , : Wetir demotions and arrests,
even of ha.gh-raankking SEB r embers who o LIbricht, may occur xa. the ne (r
future, th,ould. U].b_:?i.:nht contiri_ .e to 140ac"?cr0 a;~ac::xA~.:
member of the SED Politb1ro expelled in September 1950
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2. Rudolph Sldnskf and Axm. Pauker belonged to the so-called S4anti-Fascist" wing
of the European Communist Parties, who rose to power w;heta.-the Red Army entered
Centra Europe and the Balkans. In their anti-Cexw.sn attitu4e, there is 50X1 -HUM
certainly an element of.0 resentmaent and a d a:a li t:.e of the favors the
Ya,eml.in may now grant to the German neo Nazis . :'.l ask?w for a long time one. of
the favor& Muscovites agents in Europe hwi been in contact vita Paul ). esker, a
been strengthened.
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