Biography
Wilhelm "Willi" Münzenberg (14 August 1889 – June 1940) was a German Communist political activist and publisher.
Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919–20 and established the famine-relief and propaganda organization Workers International Relief in 1921. He was a leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Era, but later grew disenchanted with the USSR due to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. Condemned by Stalin to be purged and arrested for treason, Münzenberg left the KPD and in Paris became a leader of the German émigré anti-fascism and anti-Stalinist community until forced to flee the Nazi advance into France in 1940. Arrested and imprisoned by the Daladier government in France, he escaped prison camp only to be found dead a few months later in a forest near the commune of Saint-Marcellin, France. Walter Laqueur described him as "a cultural impresario of genius".
Filmography
all 15
Movies 15
Producer 15
Metall (1933)
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
Im Schatten der Weltstadt (1930)
Rot Sport marschiert (1930)
Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness (1929)
Hunger in Waldenburg (1929)
100,000 under red flags (1929)
Harbour Drift (1929)
Salamander (1928)
Schinderhannes (1928)
Kindertragödie (1928)
Das Mädchen aus der Fremde (1927)
Superfluous People (1926)
Namenlose Helden (1925)
The man in the background (1922)
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GenderMale
Birthday1889-08-14
Deathday1940-06-22 (50 years old)
Birth PlaceErfurt, Germany
CitizenshipsGerman Empire
ResidencesBerlin, Germany
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