Socialist Workers' Party of Germany

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Socialist Workers' Party of Germany Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands
Founded	1931; 93 years ago (1931)
Banned	1933; 91 years ago (1933)
Merger of	KPD-O (1932) USPD
Split from	SPD
Headquarters	Berlin, Weimar Republic
Newspaper	Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung
Youth wing	Socialist Youth League of Germany[1]
Paramilitary	Sozialistischer Schutzbund[2]
Membership	25,000 (1931) 15,600 (1933)
Ideology	Centrist Marxism Democratic socialism
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
Colours	Red
Politics of Germany Political parties Elections

The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD) was a centrist Marxist political party in Germany. It was formed as a left-wing party with around 20,000 members which split off from the SPD in the autumn of 1931. In 1931, the remnants of Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) merged into the party and in 1932 some Communist Party dissenters also joined the group as well as a part from the Communist Party Opposition. Nevertheless, its membership remained small. From 1933, the group's members worked illegally against Nazism.^[3]