German Socialist Labour Party of Poland

264:(PPS). DSAP got 16,643 votes and seven seats in the council. In central Poland the municipal elections showed the strength of the party in the region; in total DSAP had 36 city councilors and 7 magistrate members in the area. In 1928, the party claimed to have 8,406 members, out of whom 2,500 were women. The youth wing of the party had around 1,200 members, out of whom 480 were women. The party had an educational organization, 687: 357:

for boycott of goods from Germany, in protest of the Hitler regime. The boycott call became controversial within DSAP, and some members (such as Arthur Kronig, Otto Heike, Ludwig Kuk and Gustav Ewald) left the party as a result. In 1932 the DSAP had 5,429 members in Upper Silesia. By 1937 the number

353:(JdP), which had its base in Bielsko. The rise in popularity of National Socialism amongst the Germans in Poland would prove disastrous for the DSAP. In Upper Silesia, support for the party rapidly eroded after the 1933 Machtübernahme. In September–October 1933 DSAP joined the call initiated by the 303:

On October 6–7, 1929, a conference was held in Lodz which completed the task of unification of the DSAP set up at Chorzów four years earlier. The conference finally decided to locate the DSAP headquarters to Lodz (an issue that had been a bone of contention for years).

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On August 26, 1939, DSAP signed the joint statement of socialist parties in Poland, calling for the people to fight against Hitlerism (other signatories included the Bund).

340: 672: 650: 1626: 1795: 1651: 1232: 1767: 1935: 2185: 1778: 1242: 2002: 1838: 1631: 2139: 1810: 1267: 232:(DAP). The merger wasn't fully effective though, and in practice the two parties continued separate existences until the merger was finalized until 1929. 1753: 1391: 1287: 362:. The Bielszowice branch went defunct before the end of the year, though. By March 1937, the remainder of the DSAP branch in Chorzów joined the PPS. 221: 1955: 1701: 300:, the result was better for the party in local elections. In the 1929 city council election the party won eight seats (in alliance with the PPS). 57: 1827: 2165: 1992: 1358: 1188: 1090: 1083: 847: 665: 1925: 1502: 1247: 253:

was assigned as the central party organ. One of the first actions of the party executive was the publication of the 'Manifesto of the united

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had declined to 560. As of early 1936, the party had only three functioning branches in Upper Silesia, Katowice, Chorzów and

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In October 1930, DSAP suffered another split, as the leftist Heinrich Scheibler broke away and formed the

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