Paul Levi

Paul Levi
Chairman of the Communist Party of Germany
In office March 1919 – February 1921
Succeeded by	Heinrich Brandler
Member of the Reichstag
In office 24 June 1920 – 9 February 1930
Succeeded by	Georg Graupe
Constituency	Reichswahlvorschlag (1920–1924) 30, Chemnitz-Zwickau (1924–1930)
Personal details
Born	(1883-03-11)11 March 1883 Hechingen, Province of Hohenzollern, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	9 February 1930(1930-02-09) (aged 46) Berlin, German Republic
Political party	SPD (1906–1916) USPD (1917–1918) KPD (1918–1921) KAG (1921–March 1922) USPD (March–September 1922) SPD (from September 1922)

Paul Levi (11 March 1883 – 9 February 1930) was a German communist and social democratic political leader. He was the head of the Communist Party of Germany following the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919. After being expelled for publicly criticising Communist Party tactics during the March Action, he formed the Communist Working Organisation (KAG / Kommunistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft) which in 1922 merged with the Independent Social Democratic Party. This party, in turn, merged with the Social Democratic Party a few months later and Levi became one of the leaders of its left wing.